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Cosmetics Company Discovers The Power Of Cow Poop

Margaret — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:40:00 EDT

The next tube of lipstick you buy from L'Oréal may be brought to you by cow dung. The company's Belgium factory is installing a biomass electricity-generating system that will essentially power the factory on poop.

The new anaerobic digestion system will capture methane from waste provided by nearby cattle farms and turn it into electriticy. 85% of the cosmetics factory's power will be supplied by the system. According to L'Oréal, it's part of an effort to reduce the company's carbon footprint, and will cut emissions to 50% of the level recorded in 2005 by 2015. That's something everything can get, ahem, behind.

L'Oreal's Cosmetics Factory Set To Run On Poop [Inhabitat, via Allure]

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How Do You Break The Poop Ice With A New Paramour?

Tracie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:20:00 EDT

I'm leaving tonight to go on vacation. I'm taking a road trip to Tennessee and staying in a log cabin in the Smoky Mountains, going to Dollywood (Dolly is gonna be performing there!), and then onto Memphis. I'm going with my new boyfriend, whom I've only been seeing for about a month and a half. Things moved super quickly for us, and this is the fastest (and maybe only the second or third) time I've ever traveled with a boyfriend on vacation. Here's the thing: I'm freaking out about my poop. I have poop problems that I've documented here before. It's difficult enough for me to stay regular in the comforts of my own home, but when I'm in a foreign environment I become instantly and seriously constipated. On my last vacation I didn't go for eight days straight. And since I'm gonna be swimming in a heart-shaped pool at the Heartbreak Hotel in Memphis and lounging in a hot tub in Pigeon Forge, I really, really don't want to look bloated in a bikini.

OK, so my main concern is constipation, but my #2 (heh) concern is what will happen when I finally do "release." I'm expecting my period to come smack dab in the middle of this trip, so I know that will hollow out my bowels. And those period craps — while totally a welcome relief from my regular irregularity when I'm sitting alone in my apartment — are going to be a problem. Because they're always loud. And smelly. And messy. And time-consuming. And after being backed up for a few days, it's gonna be even worse. I'm not really sure how I'm going to handle it.

My relationship with this guy is so new that we haven't really crossed that bridge of pooping around one another yet. He's one of those guys that's gonna need some breaking-in as far as getting used to my incessant farting. (It's been killing me, holding them in!) But I guess if we're gonna make this relationship work, I'm gonna have to get over my poop fears. Once I get my period shit (hopefully around Sunday), this guy is gonna receive a baptism by fire.

Earlier: I Went For A Colonic And All I Got Was A Load Of Crap

Fasten Your Seatbelts, Girls; It's Fashion Week

Anna — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:00:00 EDT

Have you heard? Today is the official start of Fashion Week here in New York, which means that today is the day during which our heads will get even closer to exploding from the sheer volume of shit coming our way from the celebrity-sartorial complex and the pressures involved in sorting through it. Seeing that this is Jezebel's first fashion week — Moe, in fact, is a fashion week virgin — we'll be winging it a bit. We'll also probably be posting less often as three of the Jezebel editors (Dodai, Moe, Jennifer) will be offline and crashing the runways, reporting on all the "celebrity" sightings, expensive shit, bad attitudes and, of course, pretty clothes you (or they) can handle. Speaking of, we'll be paying even closer attention to your comments than usual over the next seven days, so please, let us know what you want to see, what you don't, and what makes you want to vomit. Want to know more about what we — and other blogs — will be covering? Check out this story in today's Women's Wear Daily.

Memo Pad: Blogs [WWD]