by Mina | Oct 20, 2021 | Cosmetic care
Virgin coconut oil, brough to you by the tree of life in French Polynesia (although, from a strict botanical point of view, coconut tree is not a tree…!) First glance at it, it reminds us of holidays, farniente, warm sand, and blue lagoon… Are you...
by Mina | Oct 13, 2021 | Cosmetic care, Ethnobotanical
Discover the discipline of ethnopharmacology This is the scientific studies of plant based, animal based or mineral based materials, and related knowledges or practices applied by traditional cultures in order to modify the condition of living organisms for...
by Mina | Oct 12, 2021 | Cosmetic care
The visual, the appearance is an ancestral preoccupation. Is it a quest for cultural belonging? Is it a quest for self-approval? Is it a quest for youth? Is it a quest driven by our ego? I think this is a whole that mixes history, culture, nature and emotion. We first...
by Mina | Oct 12, 2021 | Acne, Cosmetic care
It is pretty obvious that our skin reflects many things. The skin is the result, the reflection of our emotions. In good ways or in bad ways… When we feel good, we’re glowing. When we go through tough times, we somatize, and at best it’s just an acne breakout. Our...
by Mina | Oct 12, 2021 | Cosmetic care, Microbiota
You already know it under different appellations, but especially: the cutaneous microbiome. Ever heard of it? We don’t actually see them, and yet, there are more of them than all of the cells of our body. It is said that there is 10^15 of them… But what are these...
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