Add 20 to 30 drops of your favorite essential oil to 2 cups (500 ml) of Epsom salt or coarse sea salt in a medium bowl or container. Stir well until all of the essential oil has been spread over and absorbed by the salt. You can use any scent of essential oil you want to use. If desired, you can even combine scents to create your own unique fragrance. Mix 1/2 cup (125 ml) of baking soda into the scented salts until evenly distributed. Alternatively, you could leave the baking soda out altogether and add it to your machine separately during the wash. Before your washing machine enters a rinse cycle, add the scented crystals directly to the water in your machine. Only use 2 to 3 Tbsp (30 to 45 ml) of the fabric softener crystals. If you did not add baking soda to the crystals, you can add up to 1/2 cup (125 ml) of baking soda in conjunction with this fabric softener per normal load of laundry. Do not add the fabric softener crystals to the start of the washing cycle, before the washing part actually takes place. Only add it to the washing machine during the rinse cycle. You do not need to do anything special from this point on. Let your rinse cycle finish up as it normally would.
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One-sentence summary -- Mix coarse salt and essential oil. Stir in baking soda. Add 2 to 3 Tbsp (30 to 45 ml) to the rinse cycle. Run the rinse cycle as usual.

Q: Pick out accessories that match the look of your outfit that will make you look more like a kid. This can be anything: a colorful backpack, hula hoop, lollipop or doll will make a perfect prop and help spell out the intention of your costume. Think of accessories that play into the particular look you've chosen. If you're dressing as a little girl in a princess outfit, for example, you could make a magic wand, or a boy in grass-stained clothes might carry a baseball and bat. You can probably find most of these props around your house or garage. If not, try making them yourself. Kids' clothes are rarely in pristine condition, so soiling or tearing your costume in the right places can enhance your chosen look. Take shorts and shirts outside and rub them in the dirt, or else use makeup effects to simulate mud, finger paints and milk mustaches. Dab a little grape juice onto plain white t-shirts to give them a lived-in authenticity. Dirty clothes will be much more convincing as part of a little kid costume than plain-looking clean ones. Make sure that your clothes don't smell bad if you dirty them up with actual dirt or food. Little kids who dress themselves don't pay much attention to whether or not their clothes match, and neither should you. This kind of small detail can make your costume much funnier. Pair together tacky combinations of patterns and fabrics, and go crazy with the layers. If you end up looking like you've just thrown together whatever you found in your closet, you've succeeded. Get heavy-handed with the lipstick, blush and eyeshadow if you're dressing like a little girl. You'll look as though you did your own makeup for the first time, which will make a great detail for a dress-up "glamour" costume. In addition to makeup, you might heap on loads of fake jewelry. Mess up short hair if you're a boy or give yourself an intentional cowlick. Girls can put long hair in braids or pigtails. If you're wearing some kind of headgear as an accessory, think of creative ways of styling your hair with it, like putting it in curlers as part of a "makeover with mommy" costume or leaving it hanging over your eyes underneath a baseball cap. Girls can also tie ribbons or bows in their hair.
A: Accessorize for your costume. Get dirty. Mismatch your outfit. Wear excessive makeup. Fix up your hair.

Article: The most surefire way to break in a stiff new softball glove is to use it to play catch frequently. This way, you're using it for what it was designed for, and won't have to worry about damaging the glove's materials using unorthodox methods. The downside of simply playing catch to break in your glove is that it can take many hours of catching to soften the glove up enough. When catching a softball with a new glove, concentrate on enveloping and squeezing the ball with the area around the thumb and forefingers to form what is known as a "pocket." This will give the glove a natural contour the size and shape of a softball and make catching easier as a result. Use both hands to bend, pull, stretch, squeeze and roll the glove. Working the glove manually can also be a time-consuming way to break it in, but the upside is that it can be done absent-mindedly while you're busy with other things. After a while, the repetitive contact will cause the leather of the glove to loosen up. Try kneading your new glove while you're watching TV, talking with friends or sitting in traffic. The natural oils on your hands can also be good for conditioning a stiff glove. Take out your aggression on your new glove and soften it up in the process. Punch it, kick it, stomp on it, hit it with a bat or throw it against the wall. It may seem odd to be so destructive to a new glove, but the abuse you dole out will simulate the pounding it will eventually take on the field. Just make sure you don't damage any weaker areas of the glove, like the stitching. Softball gloves are fashioned from thick, durable leather, so you're unlikely to damage the glove, as long as you don't employ extreme measures like running it over in a car or dropping it off a cliff. One traditional method for breaking in a new glove is to fold it around a ball, stick it under your mattress and sleep on it for a night or two. What makes this effective is the constant heat and pressure from having your body weight on top of it for an extended period. As the glove warms up, it will begin to conform to the shape of the ball, while positioning your shifting mass over it while you sleep will massage away tension in the new leather. Make sure there is a ball in your glove before sleeping on it. The point is to form a defined pocket, not to flatten the glove out. Play catch with your new glove by day and sleep on it at night. Between the two, the glove should be thoroughly broken in in no time.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Use the glove to play catch. Knead the glove by hand. Rough up the glove. Sleep on the glove.