let's see - if you have broken blood vessels, laser treatments are the only thing with consistent results. I totally agree with sheila's advice on salicyclic acid - it's a beta-hydroxy acid that's a bit kinder on your skin than the BHA's. it's also the active ingredient in asprin, and a lot of us crunchy-granola types use regular old dollar store, unbuffered asprin as a mask - a few drops of water, and they dissolve into a paste that can be used as a scrub. the over-the-counter shampoo for psoriasis is the strongest concentration of the stuff you can get - stronger than anything short of a medical peel, actually. if your skin is sensitive, I suggest you get your 'fruit acids' from the source - payaya, mango, even strawberries have enough of the enzyme to soften up the dead layer of skin - and I'm taking an educated guess that your pores are literally 'skinned over' and an aestetician would steam you, apply a mild peel, and then 'pop' the cap on each pore with a lancet before extracting the blackhead. steam and mild fruit acids may well be your best bet... the other end of that is that all of this is mildly to moderately irritating, and you will need to calm your skin back down afterwards - cucumber slices are the 'organic' method (use a veggie peeler to get nice, soft, moldable strips) but there are also cleansers and moisturizers especially for sensitive skin out there.

If I were doing that job, I would min expand foam, deeply inside the cracks, and very lightly, its easier to spray again than to cleanup the foam from the bricks,also even though its min. it can push the jambs tighter, making windows harder to operate. once it is sealed, You can bring the foam out farther or just buy backer bead for the caulking in the front. Use siliconized caulking not straight latex. I use polyseamseal brand caulking, its as much adhesive as it is caulk, while still being paintable. more expensive yes, but I dont want to do things twice. (spray bottle and rubbing alcahol, makes smoothing acrilic/siliconized caulks alot easier)

Hi, I have a Lacanche Cluny 1400, we have been using it for about 1 and 1/2 years. I absolutely love the range and so does my entire family. I have no regrets at all with it. I'll answer your questions to the best of my ability based on my experience so far. uneven cooking temps in oven - I have a gas and an electric oven and both ovens cook true to temperature. knobs/doors get very hot to touch - Yes, the knobs can get hot but more likely warm to the touch. This happens when I'm cooking with the oven at a very high temperature or broil. It's not been a major issue though. a few cheap components that cause failure like a light door spring that is not heavy enough for the door - Not had any issues with this. ill fitting oven doors - My oven doors fit perfectly. horrendously expensive replacement parts - We had an ignitor switch fail early last year. The Lacanche service team was wonderful to work with and sent the part out and arranged for an electrician to repair it quickly. I have not had to buy any replacement parts because my range is still under warrantee. service difficulties - No difficulties at all getting service and I don't like in a major metropolitan area (Ann Arbor, MI - service provider was an hour away). Service took about a week. Obviously, the service isn't as fast as it would be for a company like GE or other popular brands that have units all over the country. Considering that this brand is not very well known here in the US, I think they do a fantastic job of arranging for service providers. My range is the only one in Ann Arbor or at least it was when I bought it. You can ask for information on service providers before you agree to purchase the range. cleaning difficulties - If you mean, that the ovens aren't self cleaning, than maybe yes. But, I've not found cleaning the range or the ovens to be much trouble. makes the kitchen blazing hot - Nope. During the holidays at times, I had all 7 burners going and both ovens and the warming oven on. It was obviously warmer in the kitchen than if the range wasn't on at all, but not unbearable and certainly not worse than my old electric, smooth top range with four burners and one oven. When I was trying to decide on a range, I did a lot of research and found threads on the Lacanche going back years on Garden web searching via the thread name i.e.: Lacanche Part 1, etc. There are a lot of them that don't show unless you go looking for them. My research reviled that although there are some people that had issues and a few that really didn't like the Lacanche, the majority of the owners were more than happy with their purchase and had owned their ranges for many years. I do expect that the parts and service once I'm no longer covered under warrantee will be more expensive than some other ranges. But, I believe that this range was built to last and the replacement parts will be far less than buying a new range every so often. Just for reference, we lived in our last house for 14 years and we replaced the range 2 times, once because the part wasn't much less buying a new model and once because I wanted a more modern looking i.e. stainless steel range. Have you been able to see one of these ranges in person? I think that might help you with some of your concerns. PS - I will also say that there were a lot more active contributors for Lacanche before the switch from Gardenweb to Houzz. I think this may be why it seems that there are fewer happy Lacanche owners now.

The operative words here were 'minimal work'.... Not sure what the Minwax wood hardener is chemically (the label only says "contains ketones"), but two coats left a hard plastic-like finish kind of like what comes on some pre-finished T1-11 panels. The greenhouse kit (that needed major alterations to overcome design and part deficiencies) came with coating on the exterior panels. It took stain well and has weathered much better than a shed built from unfinished T1-11 that was stained afterwards. Applied several coats of a semi-transparent stain and it looks great. Cheers