If you want to add peppermint flavor to desserts or homemade candy, or use peppermint for aromatherapy, you have a choice of ingredients: peppermint oil or peppermint extract.
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Rogaine is the only topical medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration for hair regrowth. It comes in versions marketed separately to men and women, as well as an extra-strength version.
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A hair is either pigmented or it's white. In fact, a person who's afraid of "going gray" as he ages might be comforted to know that gray hairs don't actually exist. Gray hair is an optical illusion -- the product of colored hairs mixed in with white hairs.
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The difference between a sauna and a steam room can be summed up simply -- dry vs. wet. Saunas provide dry heat, while steam rooms generate moist heat. Both can open up your pores, loosen up your muscles and help you relax. Which one is right for you? It's mostly a matter of personal preference.
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The Britax Marathon and the Britax Boulevard are both convertible child safety seats, meaning that they can be installed in either direction: rear-facing for infants and forward-facing for older children. The two models share many features, but there are a few key differences. The Boulevard is the "higher-end"
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When you're looking for more potassium in your diet, a banana is an obvious choice: It's tasty, it takes no special preparation, it comes in its own wrapper -- and the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the typical 4 oz. banana delivers a hefty 422 mg of potassium. But potassium seekers need not live by bananas alone.
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In chemistry, the pH scale measures how acidic or alkaline something is. Generally speaking, the pH value of water does not directly affect human health, although it can have an indirect effect by corroding plumbing, which leaches metals into the water.
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Every soccer game begins with a kickoff at the center of the field. A coin flip determines which team takes that kickoff, as well as which one takes the kickoff to start the second half. Procedures surrounding the kickoff are spelled out in the "Laws of the Game"
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When you watch tennis, or any other sport, you're watching a demonstration of physics, just with more cheering than the typical physics experiment. Central to the action are the three laws of motion described in 1687 by Sir Isaac Newton, the Grand Slam champ of pre-industrial science.
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