If you think you’ve found your twin flame, here’s a quick quiz to find out, plus some signs of a twin flame relationship to watch out for. Twin flame relationships are known to be both challenging and healing and even sometimes toxic. This is because a twin flame will show you your deepest insecurities, fears, and shadows—but also help you overcome them. In some cases, twin flames can help each other grow and heal together, but at other times, twin flames are not always meant to stay together forever and rather facilitate growth during that period in your lives....

Water is a mainstay in many beauty products (check out your vanity; you’ll see it listed as the first ingredient for most), so why would there be such a strong push to leave it out? Well, that comes down to sustainability, shelf life, and efficacy. Here, everything you need to know about waterless beauty. As the beauty space starts to move toward greener, more sustainable options, from the packaging used to better-for-the-environment ingredients, one area we’ll start to hear more about is water consumption....

Understandably, this can feel like a personal stab to your skin care-loving heart. Don’t be so quick to toss that product, though. Cetearyl alcohol is a commonly misunderstood ingredient—and it’s not as bad as you might think. Chemically speaking, cetearyl alcohol is a fatty alcohol. It’s made of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol, two fatty alcohols also used in skin care. On ingredient labels, cetearyl alcohol is sometimes listed as cetostearyl alcohol, cetyl/stearyl alcohol, or C16-18 alcohol....

The obsession with getting rid of peach fuzz is one highly contradictory topic for this reason (and more that you’ll read about below). So we’re here to answer all of your questions. To follow, you can read all about the benefits, the risks, and some food for thought on dermaplaning. Let’s dive in, shall we? This can be done by a professional or DIY-style, though we’re not huge fans of the latter (more on that in a bit)....

The term is derived from the word empathy, which is the ability to understand and share the emotions of another. So an empath, as you might imagine, is someone who takes empathy beyond what most people experience. They are so attuned, in fact, that without proper boundaries, they can absorb others’ energy (which can be quite overwhelming). As psychiatrist and author of The Empath’s Survival Guide Judith Orloff, M.D., previously explained to mbg, empaths are also sensitive, loving, and have finely tuned intuition—but can become “an emotional and physical sponge, absorbing the negativity and stress of the world....

We can characterize all our relationships along two dimensions of negativity and positivity. With our true friends, we have high levels of positivity and low levels of negativity. With our enemies, we have the opposite—these relationships are clearly toxic. When it comes to our acquaintances, we don’t spend much time and energy on them because we have low levels of both positivity and negativity with them. But then, what about the people with whom we experience both high positivity and high negativity?...

When you have limited time to dedicate to advancing your fitness level, circuit training allows you to get an awesome cardiovascular boost while also gaining strength. It’s scientifically proven1 to be an efficient and effective method of improving your overall fitness level—which is why it’s the framework for many popular group and boutique fitness classes. You can either perform a certain number of repetitions of each move in the circuit or do them for a proscribed amount of time....