And like skin care, some hair care products are certainly optional, but your hair might look and feel a whole lot better with them. Clarifying shampoos are one of those often overlooked but occasionally hair-saving products. Clarifying shampoos are amped-up versions of the day-to-day ones that thoroughly clean both the hair follicles, scalp, and hair fiber. “The main difference lies in the active ingredients in each formula—hair detoxes often rely on natural extracts and oils to remove buildup, while clarifying shampoos typically contain synthetic ingredients such as silicones and sulfates,” certified trichologist, celebrity stylist, and founder of scalp-first hair care brand Act+Acre Helen Reavey tells mbg....

You might even immediately identify with the word because you prefer staying in with a good book rather than going out. But those associations tend to be a rather simplistic view of introversion. According to him, one of the easiest ways to spot an introvert is by the way they recharge their social battery. Introverts, he said, prefer to be in minimally stimulating environments and tend to go inward to recharge, while extroverts are re-energized from interacting with others....

“The intention is to repeatedly bring yourself, or your partner, to the brink of an orgasm—continually building the intense sensations so that when you finally decide to climax, you will be rewarded with a mind-blowingly powerful orgasm,” relationship therapist Megan Harrison tells mindbodygreen. Practiced through masturbation, edging also gives you a greater understanding of your body and what it likes. It provides you with increased control over your own pleasure, helping you determine when and how it happens....

But in committed love relationships, “cheating” isn’t always about a sexual encounter, secret flirtation, or online erotic event. Fundamentally, it’s about breaching trust. It’s one person making a unilateral decision to cultivate nonsexual intimacy with someone other than their primary romantic partner in a way that weakens or undermines the relationship. Many see this type of connection as having an erotic component to it. Though there often can be an underlying romantic or erotic energy in emotional cheating, it can also occur without the element of romance or eroticism present....

Most prominently, the term emotional labor is often used to describe the emotional demands of a relationship (such as being available for your friends to unload their problems on you) as well as the family management responsibilities women tend to be saddled with in heterosexual relationships (such as being the one who’s in charge of knowing what chores need to get done and assigning them to your partner). In general, emotional labor can be thought of as any tasks that take from a person’s emotional, mental, or energetic tank....

Psychological astrology dictates that every person arrives on this planet with specific proclivities, strengths, and liabilities. It’s a way of understanding what our “life school” is this time around: where we’re meant to explore and grow, and where we are naturally strongest. An understanding of our own birth charts supports us to live into the complete fullness of our unique selves and to better understand and appreciate the uniqueness and potential of others....

“When you have product, dirt, and oil building up around your follicle opening—which is where your hair grows out of—buildup around that starts to slowly suffocate your hair root, and it causes inflammation,” she says. “This inflammation will not only affect the quality of your hair growth, but it will physically hurt. So when you’re moving your hair around, it’s the inflammation that you are feeling.” And it’s becoming increasingly common for a few reasons, she says....