Blackheads, natural remedies
Blackheads, the best natural remedies and healthy tips to follow. Find out how nature can help you stay healthy and fit. Blackheads, simple but powerful remedies that come from tradition and have been studied by science are now at your service.
Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 85, a potion of love and youth
According to the myth, lavender was the perfume that the goddess of love Aphrodite used to attract men and make them fall madly in love with her. But, as legend has it, lavender was also used by Cleopatra to perfume her ...
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Natural beauty, detox charcoal mask
In recent years, the detox charcoal mask is gaining fame, so much so that we can find it in every specialized shop and supermarket. But what are the properties of the charcoal mask? And how can we use this mask to take a...
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Natural beauty, the konjac sponge
No, we are not talking about a sponge made with the famous distillate but about a sponge made with the root of the homonymous plant. Konjac, scientific name Amorphophallus konjac, is in fact a porous tuber of Asian origi...
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Natural Beauty, first aid for dull skin
What to do when you wake up with a dull complexion or dehydrated skin that makes wrinkles and small expression lines even more visible? It will be due to big binges, disturbed sleep, pollution or sudden changes in temper...
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Natural beauty, clay beauty masks for all skin types
Nature has made available a unique ingredient, a true ally for our beauty, clay. A clay mask, performed a couple of times a week, in fact, acts as a scrub, as a skin rejuvenator, as a soothing and also as an antibacteria...
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Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 79, the ancient Greeks and Romans and the oil cleansing technique
The ancient Greeks and Romans didn't know soap! However, they used to grease the skin with perfumed oils, preserved in terracotta amphorae, and then scrape off oil and dirt with special tools. And these treatments were n...
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Natural beauty, an apple a day keeps wrinkles, blemishes and acne away!
Apples are the fruit par excellence, practical to take with you, they are juicy, tasty and fragrant. And they are also healthy! Each bite of an apple guarantees benefits to the heart, to the lungs, since apples help in f...
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Natural Beauty, green tea against acne, wrinkles and sunburn
Green tea is an elixir of youth, it is a powerful antioxidant, it protects the brain and heart and, as we will see today, it is also a true beauty cosmetic. And its strength is that it helps all skin types. Just prepare ...
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Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 70, Cleopatra's bath
The scene is well described by Plutarch in his work Parallel Lives, Antonio's Life. A galley with a golden stern and purple sails went up the Nile, while flashes of lights marked the rhythm with which the silver oars wer...
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Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 66, raspberry leaves, divine leaves
The legend has it that the nymph Ida, during a walk in the woods of the wonderful Crete, heard the cry of a child. But it was not just any child, but Zeus, hidden right on that island by her mother Rhea to save him from ...
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Red rose, the queen of flowers
It is said that when the archaeologist Howard Carter entered Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time in 1922, there was a scent of flowers in the air. And, from what is said, it seems that the thing that released this perf...
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Mallow, the plant that cures all ailments
The Greek poet Hesiod laughed, in one of his poems, at those who did not know the properties of the plant, compared to real treasures. Orazio used to say that he ate only this plant, olives and chicory and Charles the Gr...
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Maskne, tips and remedies against mask acne
Maskne is a term coined in recent months to indicate various disorders affecting the skin of the cheeks and chin due to the use of protective masks. Maskne can be a real worsening of acne in those who are predisposed but...
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Natural beauty, face masks and fruit scrubs
What to do with that overripe kiwi that nobody wants to eat? Or with that banana forgotten in the cupboard? Do not throw these fruits away, in fact, you can use them as a base ingredient for fantastic beauty masks or scr...
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Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 46, the almond tree and the myth of Acamante and Phyllis
A Greek myth tells that Acamante, son of Theseus, while traveling to the city of Troy together with the Greek army, stopped off in Thrace. It was there that Achamante met Phyllis, a Thracian princess. The two fell in lov...
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Winter savory essential oil
Winter savory, scientific name satureja montana, is a plant of the Lamiaceae family. From the steam distillation of the herb an essential oil with interesting properties is obtained. So let's see the uses and application...
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Essential oil of white thyme, the breath of Zeus
Thyme, scientific name Thymus vulgaris, is a plant known and appreciated for centuries for its properties. For the ancient Greeks the scent of thyme was considered the breath of Zeus and thyme was revered as a sacred pla...
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Essential oils, the best allies for a soft, healthy and rejuvenated skin
Essential oils can become valid allies for our beauty. They can be used, indeed, in case of acne-prone skin, sensitive skin but also mature skin, wrinkles and even dark skin spots. In this article we will see, based on t...
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Naturally beautiful, steam baths for a luminous face skin, against acne and blackheads
Acne, blackheads but also dull skin, even in these cases nature can be really helpful. How? With the steam baths for the face to which you can add aromatic herbs and essential oils to give anti inflammatory, antioxidant ...
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Natural cosmetics, what to do against stress acne
Stress, anxiety and worries, in these cases it is very easy to bring nervously the hands to the face and rub and irritate the skin, the cupboard in the kitchen is full of snacks and milk chocolate and we tend to stay on ...
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Natural beauty, the beauty of grapefruit
Taking care of your beauty is relaxing and rewarding. It is a gesture of love for yourself. But it is not necessary to use only very expensive lotions, creams or serums full of ingredients, whose name is sometimes so lon...
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Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 21, the celestial water by Caterina Sforza
History gives us a woman with a strong and determined character, who, at the age of only 21 and at the seventh month of pregnancy, crossed Rome on horseback to occupy, on behalf of her husband Girolamo Riario who instead...
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Natural beauty, beautiful with thyme
It is necessary to give again importance to the skin and its needs, by preferring natural cosmetics prepared with just a few ingredients that are really beneficial to the skin. For example, did you ever think that thyme,...
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Burdock
Burdock, scientific name Arctium lappa, is a plant belonging to the Asteraceae family whose root is used as a powerful natural remedy. The use of burdock as a medicinal plant has a great tradition, in fact already in anc...
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Cane sugar, cosmetic use
Do you know that a wonderful and unexpected ally for our beauty comes from sugarcane, or Saccharum officinarum? Yes, because cane sugar can become an ingredient for homemade scrub and now we’ll see the reason. The cane...
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Aleppo soap
Aleppo soap is a plant based soap obtained from the olive oil and a variable amount from 4 to 50% of laurel oil, that is extracted from the berries of the female plant of laurel tree. The more laurel oil the finest the s...
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Sulfur
Sulfur is a chemical element with important beneficial properties. This mineral was already known in ancient times as a method to purify the environments. It is the sulfur that Ulysses, in the Odyssey of Homer, uses to p...
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