MLM and crystals that cure cancer stuff is obviously worse, don't think anyone would argue otherwise, but also more widely derided and debunked, in my social circle at least.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
yeah i wouldn't say essential oils are hipster at all
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 23, 2021 9:30 AM (yesterday)
it depends on yr definition of hipster? Yeah, I know a lot of people that could be called hipsters that are into essential oils / tinctures / homeopathic stuff -- but as harbl said, it's not limited to that cultural group. I personally have a cognitive line between "using things that smell nice for an aesthetic experience" and "this stuff will solve serious health problems" ... and some of my friends/social circle blur it in ways that are super awkward for me.
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
essential oils rule. we have a muji infuser. it really cuts through the smell of stale air in our one bedroom apartment.
― treeship., Friday, July 23, 2021 2:47 PM (yesterday)
see also: poorly ventilated bathrooms
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
my personal experience with essential oils is way more with mlm moms type crowd
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
but I def know there's levels to the game
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
Live. Laugh. Love. is universal
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
My social circle is more Nag Champa than rosemary oil when it comes to smells.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 24 July 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
it's a little odd that people go nuts about low-VOC paint for their interior walls and then run an essential oils vaporizer 24/7
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Saturday, 24 July 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Expensive skincare brands use a lot of essential oils. I think the idea is that if your face oil is so concentrated it stings, that means it's working.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 24 July 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, and i like the brand of moisturizers and hand soap called every one (e o for essential oils, get it?) because it smells good even if it doesn't moisturize that well
― criminally negligible (harbl), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
lol I can't remember but someone called Meyers Briggs "business astrology"
"astrology for LinkedIn users" was the version I heard
― bovarism, Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
HRstrology
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
is this where I ask what enneagrams are and why they're so popular now, or is that a different thread
― lukas, Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
I mean I get that they're another personality typology, I just don't get why everyone suddenly got the enneagram gospel
― lukas, Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
no different than high-waisted jeans coming back
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Sunday, 25 July 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
yoga is nice. essential oils smell good but probably aren't worth the investment. i have zero interest in astrology unless "float on" is involved
― eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, 25 July 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
ever since i turned off personalized ads, i've been seeing a lot of ads on youtube that are a "marketing of masculinity" variant of this phenomenon
― eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, 25 July 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
pendulums are freaky
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Over the past 2-3 years or so, I‘ve noticed a lot of my friends getting into these things and it annoys me to no end. Is this a general phenomenon or only happening in hipster bubbles? The whole pseudo spirituality movement really does my head in.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 25 July 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
correct
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 25 July 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Mandatory Dr. Bronner's, citizen
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 25 July 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
I feel like there's probably a middle ground in personality assessment between diagnostic pathology and 'I'm an INFP because I was born under a full moon.'
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
wtf is wrong with nice soap?
― Yerac, Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
probably quite alarming if you weren't aware of its existence or use until now
― mark s, Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
alert ilx mods when they become aware of salad dressing not bought in a bottle.
― Yerac, Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
I think the "essential oils" in the thread title doesn't mean "nice soap," it's shorthand for "essential oils, medicinal and/or psychoactive properties ascribed to"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
my salad dressing usually comes in shampoo bottles that were previously filled with shampoo
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
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Yes - but in the main post groovemaan says:
(This thread was triggered by a friend of mine starting her own artisanal soap brand)
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
yes ^^^i did analyze that first post in-depth trying to figure out what year they were living in.
― Yerac, Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
fucking righteous post by Luna there!!
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
I mean the “plain scented soap” one…. Kinda corresponds to how I feel about all the “I hate this phrase” threads on ile lol
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link