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Best wet shave soap for sensitive skin?

HopStopDon'tShop — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:14:54 -0800

MenShavingFilter: what is the best soap I can use for a wet shave given that I have very sensitive skin? Preferably available in a store in Montreal, but at least available to order online for delivery to Montreal. No further explanation seems necessary other than to say that I have read through a number of threads on this topic and it's probably made me a little more confused than anything (so, with all due respect, please don't link to previous threads on similar topics). When I don't wet shave I'm a big fan of the King of Shaves line - both because it seems great for my skin and because I can actually see my face, rather than suds, when I'm shaving.

Keep me feets dry and warm!

handabear — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:05:11 -0800

I've read this, and this but I'm looking for something more casual and maybe a low top shoe that I can wear to/from and at work or school. My work dress code is casual but I don't think that walking around in colorful wellies would be appropriate. My go to shoe has always been the Adidas Samba or Dansko professional clog, but I don't think that either can make it through the fall and winter in New England. I saw some waterproof sneakers at LL Bean that were acceptable, but they are discontinued and didn't have my size in stock.

I want:

waterproof
stylish
suitable for everyday wear - indoors for hours on my feet
≤$125
can fit insoles
insulated (not essential)
flat heel

I don't want:

giant man boots
clunky/chunky/some other variation of this word
dress shoes
hiking boots
trail shoes

Does my ideal shoe exist? Suggestions?

wet iphone adaptor

Morpeth — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:25:16 -0800

I accidentally dipped the end of my iphone adaptor cable into a cup of tea. Is this going to cause trouble? Possible factors:
It was the end that goes into the phone, not the USB.
It wasn't in there very long.
The tea was African Red Bush, no milk.

Hiking around South America - what shoes should I be wearing?

tobtoh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:04:40 -0800

Travelling in the Amazon rainforest (hot and wet), Patagonia (cold and wet) and everything in between during September to November ... what shoes to wear? I'm backpacking through South America for three months starting in September and am trying to work out what footwear I should bring.

I will be spending time in the Amazon (walking in the rainforest and kayaking on the Amazon) where it will be hot, humid and wet and I've heard that trail shoes are good options here due to plenty of ventilation and drainage. I will also be spending time walking around Patagonia where it will be cold and wet. For cold and wet locations I've read that you want waterproof shoes (ie Goretex), but for warm/hot climates, that Goretex is terrible because it can't breathe enough and you will end up with really sweaty feet.

I won't be doing any heavy duty hiking, but will be doing a lot of walking. So, assuming I don't want to take 2 sets of shoes, what should I do/what options have I got?

Motor needs some drying and tlc

stormygrey — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:36:46 -0800

We need to salvage an the blower motor in the our ac unit. So, our ac wasn't working so well so we decided to clean the coils and such, unfortunately I think we got the motor wet. It will turn on for a while then it flips the breaker. While being 5 seconds or so. What if anything can I do to dry everything out and if I succeed in doing that, will it still work anyhow?

H2O lovin' plants?

saradarlin — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:28:47 -0800

Gardening Filter: I am looking to plant along my side fence, which lies on the South side of my poorly graded backyard. This is a wet area (low grade) and I would like suggestions--flowers or shrubs. Additional info: I live in Southern Ontario and the area is in full sun for at least 4 hours in the afternoon. Previous owners of the house never attempted to plant there, and I want to be the first to succeed! Changing the grade, or adding a french drain is not an option right now. The fence is about 6' high and the low lying area is about 3' wide.

Wet-pod

notned — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:07:07 -0800

Ipod -3rd Generation. I got it wet (don't ask) and have done the drying, resetting etc. and while it seemed to sort of work it is just getting worse. What's it going to cost and do you recommend any 3rd party companies? In other words what are my options?

My bike gear's gross at the end of the day.

pdb — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:34:54 -0800

How do I dry out my rain gear after a wet bike commute? In between last rainy season and this one, I changed jobs. I commute by bike, and my last place of employment had a bike room that was heated and de-humidified in the winter. The lockers were high-school-locker type, metal with vents, so rainy bike gear would be more or less dry (and if not dry, at least just barely damp) by the end of the day.

Fast forward to this year. My new place has no bike facilities, but my gym is conveniently located just two blocks away from my work. So I rented a locker from the gym, and intend to use that over the winter to store my wet stuff during the day - I share a cube with two people, and have neither the room to spread my stuff out nor the inclination to subject my cube-mates to my soaking wet riding gear.

The problem is, my gym's lockers are in...well, they're in the locker room, of course, which is humid, due to the proximity to the showers. The lockers themselves are made of wood, and the doors have no vents in them so air can't circulate through the locker.

So, yesterday, it rained on the way to work, and I got soaked. I changed, went to work, and came back to the gym to change...and my clothes were still wet and disgusting. Is there anything I can put in my locker to aid in the drying process?

I keep thinking of those "DESICCANT DO NOT EAT" packets that come with electronics; is there something like that I could put in a locker, or something else I can do to remove as much moisture as possible from a smallish enclosed space?

How can I dry out the insulation under my car's carpeting after a big leak?

Askr — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:48:32 -0800

How can I dry out the insulation under my car's carpeting after a big leak? How can I dry out the insulation under my car's floor carpeting when I can't pry up much of the carpeting?

I found a puddle in my car's passenger side the other day, flowing back and forth from back to front as I accelerated and braked. I'm not positive how it got in there, but I'll work on that separately (sunroof, window seals, underside plugs, etc.).

Here's what I've tried:

+Bailed out as much water as I could, then got as much as I could with a wetvac, but I could still hear water moving under there when I pressed down on it.

+Pried part of the carpeting away from the rear footwell as much as I could, which is just barely enough to snake a hand in there, and have been sticking a chamois cloth and little carwash towels in that opening to absorb and then wringing them out a couple times per day, hoping that wicking action will draw water from as far as the front all the way to the back there.

+Bought a dehumidifier, ran an extension cord to the car, sealed up the window where the cord went in and let it run all night and all day. I got almost nothing that way. Could be a bum dehumidifier, I suppose, but maybe the problem is that the water is not exposed to the air enough.

+I leave the windows open whenever I can to air it out.

There's no more standing water, but the insulation is like a sponge, still wet enough to keep making the towels pretty damp. I can't get under the carpet in the front - I can't see how to remove the paneling to even get at the edge of the carpet to pull it back. I'm sure mold is happily colonizing by now, five days later. It stinks up close in the area where I've peeled it back, and the whole car stinks if I have to leave the windows shut for a while. I don't want that permanent stink, but that will be a separate issue I'll deal with and I've seen other questions here that address that. What else can I do to dry it out quickly?

I looked at DampRid, but that seems to be more for moisture in the air, which won't do much if a dehumidifier didn't do much. I read about people running a hair dryer on it all night, but that sounds like a fire hazard. Other internet forum ideas on this topic haven't quite hit it.

Ideas?

Help us stay dry!

canine epigram — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:21:19 -0800

What's the best way to stay dry while camping? So we're going (car) camping in Acadia National Park in little less than a month, and as I sit here and type, it is pouring outside.

I know about digging a trench around your tent and laying down a tarp, but often that just seems to end up with water pooled in the tarp.

Recommendations for the best camp setup to avoid waking up to floating in our sleeping bags, and general rainy weather gear (including things to look for in tents besides the obvious rain-cover) would be greatly appreciated!

(Especially because my wife is a city girl, and if we end up miserable on her first time out, we may never camp again!)

I've looked at the previous camping threads, but didn't find a lot specific to dealing with inclement whether - but boy did they have a lot of good ideas for updating my years old gear!

need to dry car seat right now!

goethean — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:45:48 -0800

Need advice on drying out car seats quickly. Left my rear car window open about 2" today. Massive thunderstorm came through, with apparently horizontal rain. Rear car seat is damp. (Not a child's seat, a normal seat.) Leaving on a road trip tomorrow morning at 5 AM with three passengers. I already vacuumed it. I'm going to leave it in the garage with all the windows rolled down tonight. What else can I do? Should I leave towels on the seat?

Why do cold clothes feel wet?

robotot — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:14:27 -0800

Why do cold clothes feel wet? It's winter right now in Sydney, and cold. I put clothes on the line to dry, a day later I go out to collect what I assume are dry clothes, but they still feel wet, even though I know they are not (it hasn't rained on them, they are under cover, but still outside. I bring them inside and once they warm up to room temperature they feel properly dry.

What's going on here, in terms of physics etc?

Eeeew, we can't eat that!

DiscourseMarker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:58:24 -0800

Catfilter: What is the texture of your cat's wet food? So my vet is concerned that the current wet food I've been feeding my cats has too much sodium and is urging me to get better food for them. They also have weight issues (overweight) and I just got the labs on one of the cats and she is a little dehydrated, so I really need to get them to eat more wet food, less dry.

So here's the thing: my cats (obligatory picture) are finicky, particularly with respect to the *texture* of their wet food. As in, they just won't eat food that has identifiable chunks of real meat. It has to be minced/pate/whatever you want to call it, or they just stare at me and yowl. I read through this thread and am interested in Evo or Wellness, but I can't tell from the websites what the food actually looks like in the can.

So those of you who use these brands--tell me about the texture. Are specific flavors of either brand chunky/minced? Somewhere in-between? I really don't want to buy more food (I've already been burned this week!) that I know they won't even look at.

Wet couch needs help!

youngergirl44 — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:29:14 -0800

Is there any hope for a couch that sat in the rain overnight? Due to a couple of bad decisions and lack of time to move things, a couch we were giving to a friend was left outside overnight in the rain. Is there any hope of letting it dry out and using it or is it ready for the dump? It is an older reclining model (both ends recline) and the fabric seems to be some thick woven cotton blend. The back rest comes off for ease of moving, so that could be brought inside to dry along with the seat cushions, but I'm not sure if my friend wants a whole sopping couch in his apartment. Ugh.

Sloppy Kisses

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:49:10 -0800

Why am I a sloppy kisser? Every time I french kiss my girlfriend, I see her wiping her mouth as if I slobbered on her (Granted, I actually do feel like my kisses are a little too wet).

What gives? What am I doing wrong?

Help me! What can I do to fix my wet kisses? FYI: I don't remember experiencing this in the past with numerous ex-girlfriends/hookups.

Will rain-soaked gas range still function?

kingtaj — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:16:21 -0800

I have a gas range that was left in the rain for a short time (about a 10 minute, moderate rain). Will it still work? The gas range has a digital clock, which I can test by plugging it in, but is there anything else that might have a problem with getting temporarily wet? Such as electric ignition?

Thanks for any thoughts!

I have a car! But it smells funny. How can I fix it?

MadamM — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:19:18 -0800

How can I make my car smell better? I have recently been passed partial stewardship of a family car and I want to fix it up. It's a good car, but recently it's had some window issues that have, in turn, led to some smell issues. Basically the windows wouldn't stay up, so a certain amount of water would get inside it when it rained (especially because we park it outside, uncovered, sometimes). Not a lot of water, because the windows were never stuck more than an inch or two open, but over the course of a few months I think it's made the car smell sort of... funny. Add to that the fact that my father smoked in it when he was the primary driver, and you get a car that smells somewhat unpleasant- not awful, but it definitely has a musty funk that I would like to keep from getting any worse. The windows are fixed now, which should help, but I'm worried about mildew.

I'm going to have access to the car this week because my brother, the other driver of the car, will be out of town. I have plenty of time and effort to devote to this project, but unfortunately not much money or other resources (including any knowledge of cars or how they're made). I can maybe spend/convince my mom to spend about 30 bucks on supplies beyond what we already possess, but not much beyond that. I want to make this thing smell good. What do I need to do? What parts can I easily clean without having to dismantle the car beyond what I'm comfortable with? I want to do the best job I can.

(I did search for and find other questions about wet cars, but they didn't really apply to this situation because most of them dealt with soaked cars. This is more a matter of dampness.)

Hair damp make look.

Citizen Premier — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:34:50 -0800

Can I (a dude) use some kind of fabulous product to make my hair look the way it does when it's damp, all the time? I'd dare say my hair looks pretty sexy a few minutes after I leave the shower, when it's a mix of dark brown and my regular brown color. I'm not looking to tame my wild curls, though--I'd just like something that preserves the feel and look of my damp hair. Incidentally, I learned what shampoo and conditioner do about this time two years ago, so I'm pretty clueless when it comes to hair. Is there a product for my need or should I just carry around a spray bottle of water?

How to fix an ailing sump pump?

Xazeru — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:35:55 -0800

SumpPumpFilter: Is my sump pump incorrectly installed? The pump runs periodically when it's wet in the basement, and the water seems to run back in the sump pump bucket immediately after the pump runs. I have a dehumidifier in my basement which drains into my sump pump. When it's wet, the sump pump bucket fills up, the pump turns on, and evacuates water into a tube which flows into an outdoor drainage system.

The tube goes up about eight feet, and the problem seems to be that the water doesn't ever get out of the tube into the outdoor system. So, the water just falls back into the pump and after a minute the process repeats.

I've tried to reposition the pump on the theory that it's a little too high or low in the bucket, but this didn't help. Other thoughts are that the diameter of the outlet pipe is too large or that the outdoor system is clogged. Any ideas, hive mind?

Save my gloves!

PWA_BadBoy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:40:32 -0800

How can I salvage my lambskin leather gloves that have been sitting on the side of the road for a number of days in the snow/water? I found my leather gloves on the side of the road in the "groove" right next to to the curb in front of my fiance's house. They've probably been there for a few nights now and are soaked with some random branches and leaves on it.

I've since brought them in the house, cleaned them off with water (they're already wet) and put them in a mild soap solution.

Is there anything I can do to restore the leather? The gloves look a bit beat up but seem to be otherwise OK (no cracks yet).

I've got unwanted milk in my laptop.

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:25:11 -0800

Milk on the laptop So we spilled some cereal and associated skim milk (maybe 1/2 cup) onto the laptop keyboard.

Hard drive and optical drive are out, and seem dry.

So what's the next step? Quick bath in 50/50 alcohol/water and then drying? Just let it dry in a pile of rice for a few days?

Do wet riding conditions increase the chance of getting a flat tire?

Chuckles — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:40:59 -0800

Do wet riding conditions increase the chance of getting a flat tire?

Need a good web polishing wheel that turns in a horizontal plane.

nickerbocker — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:59:23 -0800

Please recommend a good wet polishing wheel that turns in a horizontal plane. My boss has asked me to find one and I have absolutely no experience in the area. I am polishing sectioned circuit boards to examine the middle of the solder joints. Not sure if that changes any decision making as I've already said, I have no experience here. What is a good outlet and model for me to purchase. Since I'm not sure what I need, maybe a more general purpose one would be the best to go with.

If it is helpful at all, the surface against this polishing wheel will be about 4 1/2 x 3/4 " in area.

As Always, Thanks for your input!

My car is wet. On the inside wet.

icetaco — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:43:06 -0800

So I left my Z3's top down the other night, and the next morning the interior was soaked. I've toweled everything down and have been driving around with the heat on full blast, but some areas have still not dried and I don't want no mildewy car.

Hellhounds on my trail

punkbitch — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:32:36 -0800

Trying to find the spelling for an Irish phrase which means something like "wet-black hounds from the abyss." "dower-cue" or "dower-que" is what it sounds like.
I was told it was the Irish version of the Spanish notion of "duende."

"dubh" and "cú" are black and hound respectfully.
anybody got any ideas?