Travel ... a word with a strong historical, philosophical and spiritual meaning. What impulse, what energy pushes us to go see beyond what we see? Simply curiosity? What do we have to find elsewhere? I do not wish to answer these questions. That would take a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is something that I’ve recently heard, and which has caught my attention. Have you ever noticed how we tend to blame it on our “generation”? Go on and blame today’s society! And for each era, its scapegoat. But have social medias perverted us that much? Is...