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Beneath the luxurious comfort of this shaggy bathroom mat is memory foam — so it contours to your feet as it absorbs water quickly. It's machine-washable and skid-resistant, and is even 1-inch thick.

Made with environmentally-friendly soy wax and a cotton wick, each candle in the Anjou scented candle gift set can burn for up to 20 hours, and won't produce black smoke when lit. Each set comes with four scents (pear and freesia, blackberry and bay, orange and peppermint, and soft blanket), and the packaging makes it a great gift, too.

Designed for indoor use, the ThermoPro indoor thermometer can read the temperature and humidity level in your home and tell you where the air ranges on a scale from dry to comfort to wet. You can easily set this thermometer on a tabletop and let it stand alone, and there's even a magnet if you'd like to mount it to a metal surface. One reviewer writes: "I love this product (so much so that after I fell in love with the original one I purchased, I bought three more)! I really struggle with my sinuses and never realized how dry it was around me - I worked to ensure that the air around me was more comfortable for me to breathe and it REALLY made a difference."

Finns call this ingenious home feature astiankuivauskaappi, which, according to Google Translate, is a compound word meaning dish (astian), dry (kuivaus) and cabinet (kaappi).

Constipation management: Raisins are high in fibre and they act as natural laxatives when soaked in water.

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You’ll use Aquaphor Advanced Therapy Healing Ointment Skin Protectant to heal weather-chapped skin, soften the driest heels, and breathe new life into rough patches. It’s a go-to favorite that is perennially one of the bestselling drugstore beauty products.

"Our data suggest, for the first time, that influenza viruses remain highly stable and infectious in aerosols across a wide range of relative humidities," the authors write. "These results have significant implications for understanding the mechanisms of transmission of influenza and its seasonality."

Source BioScience also manufactures equipment for purchase, including stability storage rooms, walk-in rooms, reach-in rooms, environmental storage cabinets, laboratory refrigerators and freezers, laboratory incubators and photostability cabinets. As manufacturers of the equipment it uses, the company consistently develops innovative storage solutions for its customers. Earlier this year, for example, it launched the Polar Series of -70 °C walk-in chambers, which includes the Polar 50, the first -70 °C walk-in chamber. 

Many common drugs are moisture-sensitive, for example tablets or test strips. The effects of moisture are many and varied, and can pose risks not only for the drug itself but also for patients. Most importantly, moisture can reduce the efficacy of pharmaceuticals, thus leading to a wrong medication. Blood or urine test strips may show misleading results. Moisture ingress can also lead to changes in the substrate material such as color loss or show smeared surfaces. Moreover, moisture ingress into the packaging can lead to an unpleasant odor.