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What are the benefits of someone wash their face with snow? Are you using the water once the snow has melted? I tried to find answers as to why snow is beneficial for your skin, but came up empty handed. The snow texture here is very dense and thick, it's not very fluffy, more coarse and rough, sort of like touching a Stucco wall. Admittedly, it's probably a better option to use snow/rain water compared to tap water (at least here). The city's tap water has had many issues with E. coli. The city water literally smells of feces sometimes, and yet they say the US isn't a third world country. If there is a good reason to wash your face with snow, maybe it's worth a try. If you reasoning to wash your face with it is to maintain a youthful look, I know of a few additional ways to maintain younger skin, the few ingredients I have in mind also help with any scarring, discoloration, and acne of the skin, if you'd be interested.

>They offer what sells, but these products also generate the demand, so it's a self-generating cycle.
Completely agree. These stores specifically seek out and order these lifeless Christmas trees, so they completely manufacture the supply and demand. It used to be custom in the US to go out and pick a real tree, now it's standard to have a fake tree, and now it's becoming the norm to have a fake tree with fake lights. I would bet that most American children growing up today will have no memories of putting up a fake Christmas tree, or even putting the lights on. These new fake trees are sold in 3 big chunks you place on top of each other, whereas old fake trees had many separate branches you would stick into the center of the "tree", which was a plastic pole. It was a lot more fun, took at least an hour to set up.

As a society, we chip away at a lot of "adorable" qualities, just for convenience sake. Take making your own personal webpage, for example. They had such character, and a memory was built upon making it. Though, it was inconvenient. So now most people simply have a carbon copy social media profile. It seems traditions are also moving this way. It's too much work to pick out a real tree, we'll get a fake one. Too much work to put up lights, just have them already stuck on the fake tree. To be fair, I do still see ornaments selling in stores here, and presents are not going away anytime soon, since Christmas is more of a time to celebrate our corporate overlords rather than to celebrate family or a religious event.