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30 products you’ll want to use forever


30 products you’ll want to use forever

My colleague Melanie Aman swears by this hair mask! Here is her comment: “I bleach my dark brown-black Asian hair blonde every 6-8 weeks, so when I first heard some stylists at my salon raving about K18, I was immediately intrigued. And it turns out the rest of the world loves it too, because the […]

52 rather banal products that you will use all the time


52 rather banal products that you will use all the time

Plus, it’s self-propelled, so you only have to steer it and not push it hard! Promising review: “I must admit that I am sometimes a negligent housekeeper, which is problematic because my new dog sheds enough in a week to build a whole new dog. And what’s worse, when I vacuum, I don’t pick up […]

28 easy-to-use cleaning products for summer


28 easy-to-use cleaning products for summer

Promising review: “I have well water. Something in my well water reacts with the copper pipes and turns my shower tiles blue. Since the color of my bathroom is not in the blue spectrum, this is problematic. The well water also causes a film to quickly form on the shower glass. I’ve tried dozens of […]

47 Things Under $50 to Modernize Your Home


47 Things Under  to Modernize Your Home

Promising review (from 2018; long, but great reading!): “Update May 2020: The countertop is currently in need of (light) touch-ups around the sink itself. We had to postpone the remodel until this summer and this countertop has held up great. I couldn’t be happier with this product! This color can be a little tricky to […]

15 household products I own and love


15 household products I own and love

So what are my credentials? I’ve been on the BuzzFeed shopping team since September 2016, and while I’m *technically* a generalist, I’ve written TONS of home stories, which you’ve probably come across if you’re reading this. And before that, I was at This Old House Magazine for about 4.5 years, so if there’s a home […]