AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images If you’ve searched anything about sleep on social media — or even if you haven’t — you may have come across the term sleepmaxxing. It’s a growing trend referring to different hacks and tips to maximize the quality of your sleep. Watch a few videos and you’ll notice it’s mostly being discussed by influencers (not sleep doctors), and they seem to recommend a lot of things you have to buy: mouth tape, weighted blankets, red light therapy devices, supplements, and more. So, which sleepmaxxing hacks work and which ones don’t? We asked a sleep specialist to find out....
22 Home & Fashion Items To Buy For A Spring Reset
Ariela Basson, Scary Mommy; Featured brands It is (nearly) spring in most of the country, which means it’s time for some cleaning, or if you’re not up for that, a little reset. In this month’s installment of Hang On, Buying (in which Scary Mommy and Romper editors share their favorite picks in all kinds of categories), we’re focusing on items that zhuzh up our homes — and our closets — for the season ahead. So, even though everything seems like a giant dumpster fire, at least our internal spaces will be full of color and hope?! The What: Stone Lain...
Chelsea & Freddie Freeman Are Just Raising Kids Like The Rest Of Us
Raising kids is a joy, a gift, a privilege — but it’s also stressful as hell. And the pressure, whether we put it on ourselves or absorb it from society, can be overwhelming. Depending on your circumstances — being a single parent, having a kid with special needs, struggling to make ends meet — those stress factors can change, but really, all of us are doing our best. Chelsea Freeman, a mom who lives in the public eye thanks to her Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman of a husband, Freddie Freeman, is, too. In a world where so many celebrities seem out-of-touch...
The Olay Super Cream Is The Only SPF Moisturizer That I Will Use, TYVM
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Getty Images, Olay When it comes to skincare, trends come and trends go. “Cold cream? That’s for our grandmas. Here, try this scratchy, astringent-soaked cotton pad: the painful stinging lets you know it’s really working!” There always seems to be some new information or debate about the best way to maintain a healthy glow. Chemical versus physical exfoliation. Retinol versus bakuchiol. Traditional moisturizer versus… apparently beef tallow? We’re doing that now, I guess. But there is one eternal truth when it comes to maintaining healthy skin, an important final step to your routine that every dermatologist recommends,...