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A BEAUTY WITHOUT TRICKS!


Anna Vallicelli ViaTerrea
Published echogenic

green leaves, flowers, plant extracts, Graphics, bucolic, constant references to Nature ... The packaging of cosmetics we use every day are full of these images, but you have Ever wonder what's really inside of bottles, jars, cans that fill our bathrooms?
few years ago when my daughter was born and began to get gifts for the small number of smells including, shampoo, talcum powder, creams, I wondered if it was really necessary to fill his delicate skin of all these products that not only cover its delicious scent from small mammals, they seemed not only unnecessary but also potentially harmful. So I started trying to understand what were the ingredients that made up the cosmetics and what kind of consequences could have on health and the environment.
Chemicals including petroleum and its derivatives, harsh surfactants, heavy metals, formaldehyde, toluene, silicones, dyes, synthetic perfumes. All exquisitely wrapped in my perfumed beauty case! And 'maybe use cosmetic products containing solvents and chemicals that allow the harmful substances contained in products to penetrate the defenses of the skin and remain for several insidiarvisi time? And 'maybe cosmetics toxic substances into the environment that are undermining the lives of marine animals, water quality, soil fertility and the air we breathe?
These considerations have guided me then to a consumer awareness in cosmetics, selecting the products they buy regularly for hygiene and body care.
The key instrument for coping with numerous companies through the maze of alleged "natural", but that's only natural they have the graphics on the packaging, is the interpretation of ' INCI (Index of ingredients in cosmetics) indicated on the packaging of shampoo, soap , creams and tricks. That list, mandatory since 1997, contains the list of ingredients in cosmetics, written in descending order concentration. The names mentioned are certainly not easy to read and interpret, but fortunately there are many forums and web sites useful as Biodizionario ( www.biodizionario.it ) that can help tell if the cosmetics are really safe or not. Names such as methyl paraben, DMDM, PEG, Diazolidinyl urea, dimethicone may initially discourage consumers even more eager, but after the first research and reading on the internet and using the biodizionario will take confidence and fail to recognize the main chemical families to avoid for our health and for the protection of planet Earth.
Like any other economic sector is the route that draws the consumer market with their purchases, and so in recent years created the Bio Eco Certification in this area. Many certification bodies (eg AIAB-ICEA, Ecocert, Bio Eco Cosmetics, Demeter, etc..) In the EU have drawn up specifications containing the requirements to define a cosmetic Eco Bio groped going to fill a major gap still allows legislative to define "natural" a natural product that really has only a tiny percentage. But there is still a common European standard and so you may notice some differences between each certification. In any case rely on one of these certified products already gives us a much higher quality and safety compared to a commercially available cosmetics. The eco bio
cosmetic addition, unlike the traditional market wants to believe, is much more effective because it is more skin-compatible: our skin recognizes and absorbs more easily than a natural oil or a layer of silicone oil, with which has nothing to do and they do not know what to do. And then the real assets, those that are as advertised by the cosmetics industry and perhaps also present in trace amounts in the product are all natural, often stemming from the plant world. The problem is that the ingredients are placed, or fats, emulsifiers and preservatives used, and that's where the real difference that makes a product more or less skin-compatible. Finally, the price
: obviously the criteria for choosing a product, it is very important factor. Personally I felt cheated when I discovered that the most prestigious brands in the perfume with high prices found in them contain the same ingredients found in cosmetics by a few Euros in the supermarket. What is different and that drives up the cost of a lipstick or cream are in summary fashion, packaging (including the very high environmental impact), the famous actress in advertising ... all at the expense of the health and protection environment. The price of a cosmetic
eco bio is definitely superior to a traditional, but is closer to the actual cost of production of the product, in any event shall not exceed those proposed in the pharmacy and they are beginning to find some products in some supermarkets. I believe that rather than purchase many different products of poor quality is best to get going but just really needed to feed a healthy industry, products that have recyclable packaging and environmentally friendly, products that promote environmental education and civic education.
BioEco cosmetics also means helping local producers to sell genuine products and survive the advance of the big companies that incorporate everything they find. It also means helping poor people have the wonderful products and help them support themselves by buying fair trade raw materials. Making them a better life and ourselves.
We have the power to choose the best products for us. Let's do it!

Ap Bio Osmosis And Diffusion Lab Report Part C

The Sound of Nature

Claudio Magris • 13-Mar-11
The Sound of nature and the universal consciousness (loss) for the danger

In these hours we sometimes have the impression to attend at the end of the world live, the chasms, water and fire in rage in Japan are and are destroying so many lives and their places come to us in the house. Suddenly, before us as to the nature-dominated, exploited affected - it feels like the Lilliputians in front of Gulliver; waves crumble large buildings such as toys, cars and entire trains disappear like grass, the sky gets fired.

But is this so-called nature, often men-now contrast with the arrogance of the ruler, now with the distressed spoiler guilty of humility - as if they were not also part of nature, as if they were not also nature, like animals, plants or wave? Natural disasters often lead to thoughtful and perhaps unconsciously smug jeremiads punished the arrogance of the man who seeks to dominate nature, the technique that devastates lives. Every disaster is good to criticize every confidence in the technique and progress. The apocalypse-imagined, in the tradition, now time to focus on water now mixed up in the destruction caused by the earthquake - inspires, who looks like us but live far away and safe, or at least thinking about being safe, a shiver of fright. As so often with fear, this is an ambiguous mix attraction and pierced a warning on the weakness of man and his lack of humility towards nature. All this intensifies before disasters most directly due to human responsibility, unlike the character much more 'natural' earthquake and the tsunami that rage in Japan and can not seem to be put into account human all'insensatezza or dishonesty, as is the case for example of the effects triggered by deforestation or from the infamous building that, in many cases - this does not seem to be the case of Japan now hit - does not care, incompetence or greed, cheating, anti-seismic measures. The pride of the man who subdues with its technical nature against this pride ol'invettiva start a blunder: the opposition between man and nature and the opposition, just as fallacious, natural and artificial.

As one great hymn to nature written by Goethe- or transcribed from one of his followers - all is nature, even what seems to us to deny it and instead its staging. There is the myth of a pure and uncorrupted nature, as virgin human intervention that corrupts it. But even the most sincere and healthy wine exists in nature without the action of those who cultivate the vines and harvest grapes. Even the birds' nests is nothing without the work of those who build them. Those who, like Goethe, was the deep sense of belonging of the human species, like other species, nature, knows that the human impulse to build a tent or a house is no less natural than pushing to the beavers build their dams who oppose the impetus, as natural, water. The man is devastating "nature" but is often taken another sin, self-destructive than destructive nature is not threatening, but himself, his own species. The toadstools are no less natural than edible; the frozen wastes of Pluto are no less natural flowering of the Tuscan hills, the gases emerging from the exhaust pipes of cars are no less natural scent of flowers, because they are composed of elements chemicals that are part of the nature of Creation. More simply, poisonous mushrooms, frozen planets and toxic gases are lethal for our species, of which the "nature" probably does not matter that most of the extinct dinosaurs, but that counts for us instead. All, however, belongs to the nature of things, De Rerum Natura.

The technique known not to be so demonized as a sin against nature, is its excess, its abuse is often foolish and stupid that should be reported, not greasy or apocalyptic tones of condemnation of man's misery, but with the clarity of reason, that does not have to bow down to nature - and which is part of that evolution - but be aware of their limits, pursue progress without illusions with hubris that it is unlimited, but competing with all the problems and failures that it also creates and try to understand, from time to time, when to be continued and when it is necessary to stop or even make a few steps back, given that this is possible. This is a warning of possible danger that we lack, even seeing the pictures of the tragedy Japanese remain calm, never foolishly believe that something similar could happen to us, we can make any glaring errors. Similarly, when someone dies of cancer or heart attack, deep down we are convinced that this will ever happen there. This protective unconscious of the danger marks not only individuals but also the civilizations, cultures, societies, certain to be immortal. Pure civilizations have their own endorphins, drugs that protect them from the anxiety of knowing Duty, someday, to die.

I do not know - and I have no competence to be able to know or understand, if the danger posed by the breakdown of the cooling system of the Japanese nuclear reactor and radioactive explosion is proved the mistake of building nuclear power plants in general or whether it indicates as I believe - but without any certainty, given my ignorance on-the danger is always present in every human activity. In his article, so vigorous and convincing, which appeared in yesterday's Corriere, Massimo Gaggi has highlighted the rational and strong will shown by Japan in the pursuit of growth, without "challenges to the fate" in the knowledge effective risk analysis and in preparation for them. In general, the attitude and behavior of the Japanese on this occasion give a great test of courage, firmness and calm with which man is able at times to cope with the disaster. This dignity and moral strength that they have nothing to do with the Promethean arrogance of those who think, with cheerful irresponsibility, of being able to defy with impunity the necessary balance to his case, believing that this form of nature we call the technique might decouple from the ancient mother that that generated by all and understands it as a branch that claimed to deny the tree and where he grew up and go away on their own. If many reactions against technology - even some shades of pathos-antinuclear appear irrational, even more joyous and self-harm is the irrational complacency with which, in the name of progress so that ceases to be such arrogance and a scientist believes that science is God, destroy forests, wasting energy, resources are depleted without thinking about how the Earth can feed a number of hungry and increasingly unsustainable as we can live in a land increasingly different from that to which our species is used.

There is, in humans, a presumption of eternity that makes irresponsible spendthrift of life and goes to meet the presumption a possible transformation of itself. Serious scholars speak of a near future with cyborgs, of men like hybrids of human bodies and technology integrations, it is theoretically possible for a world of women only able to reproduce without human intervention, genetic engineering promises-or threat-beings humans radically different from us, as to be difficult to define "us". Perhaps it is implementing a radical transformation of our species, destined to change our way of being and feeling, in a world where only women were born by women, for example, would be hard to see Hector, who plays with his son Astyanax hoping to become more than he or the passion of Paolo and Francesca, things without which we would not be what we are. Of course, species have always transformed and continue to do so. But, unlike the process that led from the unicellular organism (or fragments of the Big Bang) to Marilyn Monroe, the transformation of our species would occur very quickly rather than billions of years, perhaps in time for those who would live them unsustainable.

This possible transformation - irrationally courted or feared - hurts us more than our own individual death, because it comforts us to believe that after us there will be children like our children, women and men as lovable people we loved. Strength, calmness, dignity with which those now facing the Japanese show that the overwhelming disaster the classic man, as we know it for millennia, has not yet passed, as Nietzsche proclaimed, hoping and fearing all-but is still worth his place.

Corriere della Sera March 13, 2011

Polaroid For Beginners

Kazungu GRANDFATHER AND THE WOMEN'S DAY


See a white Kakoneni, at eight o'clock in the morning, it is rare but always gives a sense unexpected, again, imagine the surprise of the things that materialize in an unexpected moment. This is especially the children that you have happily on the edge of the track as for the passage of cyclists on the Tourmalet and are one with the orange powder, the shadow of the acacias and the smile of the sun. Grandfather
Kazungu instead knows that a Mzungu at that hour on a dirt road, fifty miles inland from Malindi on the way to the Tsavo National Park, where there is near a bus safari, may belong to two categories:

1. Tourists linger to urinate and forgotten by the driver of the minibus safari and not reported by passengers (in this case after more than an hour and a half will return to retrieve it) or
2. Tourists who ventured into the bush with his car and broke it left a few miles back, with his wife fat and sweaty to curb the streams with his shirt and the two friends arrived for the first time in Africa to dream on rear seats, the garden of their house in Pietra Ligure.
If not part of one of two types, then it can only be evaporated, which took advantage of a pass by adventurers in Land Cruiser or has just fallen from matatu fast-Kakoneni Malindi.
"Jambo, Mzee"
"Good morning, pale nephew" From
white shirt and face, it seems Land Cruise, rising to resume tomorrow.
It 's time to have tea with cinnamon, an African game of checkers and a sportsman from smoke slowly relaxed from the Olympics.
"What we have to visit this man?"
"Today is March 8, I came because it is International Women's Day and I would also like to Kakoneni was celebrated this anniversary"
"The party ...?"
"of ... mwanamke woman ...! Of your wives, daughters, nieces, of malaya "
"We missed this too ... my boy, Kenya is the country with the most holy days of the African continent and, I think even the world. Failing to adopt an official religion, we celebrate all the Christian feasts, those of Rome and those celebrated in Anglo-Saxon countries, such as Pentecost, the Pope not to do wrong but even the British Protestants who first we talked about faith. Then we respect the Islamic parties, God forbid ... the birth of the prophet Mohamed, the revelation and days of prayer in which many will head to Mecca. Of course we also feast on the day of commencement and the end of Ramadan. Then we have the historic anniversaries of our Nation: Independence Day, "Uhuru Day" to the constitution, "Jamhuri Day", the birthday of Jomo Kenyatta, the father of the country and also that of his successor, a little 'father, but always a little less' monarch, Arap Moi. Clearly, we align the world including on May 1, despite not having a great tradition of working ... you do not work the first year and last year was declared a national holiday the day of Saint Sylvester. Lately there are those who whisper that we are opening up to Buddhism and solemn days of the Celtic calendar ... and how to bypass Italian holidays in Malindi? If it were not for your fellow citizens on April 25 were still in Somalia, more that beaches, safaris and tropical cocktails! "The wisdom and irony
Kazungu Grandpa always left him speechless evaporated, moreover knew that only someone like him would face the interior malindino and stayed one night in a mud hut among snakes and scorpions. It was a unique example: more than forty seasons alongside whites of every race and culture, learning to observe thousands of transition, had submitted as a computer billions of information and stimuli, the time, slow the flow of things and clarity of thought had developed the whole, sublime with the philosophy of African life.
"But this is not a festival calendar, even in Italy ... is a way to celebrate the good fortune of having the female gender on our side "Kazungu
Grandpa looked askance at the evaporated and vigorously shook his shorts found on the sides.
"A celebration to thank Heaven for the reproduction of the species, you say?"
The shock evaporated in the manner of a banana tree, the thick hair on his head.
"We're going to discuss it at the Safari Bar"
Kamongo Lawrence was loading his pick-up in heaven. On
body there were already seven people, a small generator to take to repair, a toolbox, two empty boxes of Tusker, the spare wheel of a truck, a bicycle and a bottle gas. In place of the driver side, recessed and smiling, the electrician Makotsi.
"You go away," she said, ordering a coffee kenya.
"When you come back? It is to organize the Women's Day at sunset "
" I'll be back around ... THE PARTY THAT '? "
" of women ... is March 8! Around the world celebrates the woman "
" We celebrate every day woman, you do not need a special day "
" Even Jesus is celebrated every Sunday, but there are special occasions, the most important week, "said Kazungu grandfather, who had decided to take the side of his Italian, imagining that he would be in the minority soon.
feel directly involved, the priest stretched his voice.
"We want to equate Jesus and ..."
"The Lady from which it was born? Why not! "I anticipated it evaporated.
"The Lady was a special woman, committed no sin ... this is why we worship," snapped the priest "not to forget that Eva is having committed the original sin."
"The shame that our women have done was to get married ..." sneered Kazungu.
"Had they been able to decide ..." jumped on the operator of the bar, Kibonge.
"What sin have committed my first wife, sold by her father for seven goats and a plantation of tomatoes?" Said Makotsi echoing from inside the pickup.
"What not to miss Matsangoni" drink a young man behind the voice generator.
"And I, I break your back for ten years for carrying water from the well and take care of my four little children? - Asked in a shrill tone of the guests of the box, moving the bike so that you could see in his face - I am a sinner, maybe? "
The priest was repulsed in the most respectful silence, Kamongo continued.
"And what This is International Women's Day? "
" Should it happen that one day she can do what during the rest of the year ... it is forbidden to the March 8 decides she is the star! "s'infervorò it evaporated.
"That is now our women should get drunk, get to cook the goat, forcing the man to have sex ..."
"For example, tonight the Safari Bar is available to them and do not see the game, but the program that decides them ... "
" But there's West Ham-Portsmouth ... "he tried Kibonge.
"Do you realize what women have always for us? - Then said Kazungu - work hard, your children, keep the villages clean, wash clothes, procure firewood and pounding corn, harvesting the spinach, they go to fetch water ... "
" But it's normal, we We are working in or around the city and earn money to maintain them ... "said Kamongo.
"And you turn the situation around? Tell your wife remaining service to the village to do what she does? "
" It is not possible - Makotsi rang, I learn the car door - the man can not breastfeed their children should be raised by her mother, so she must stay in the village "
" Here find an excuse ... "murmured the evaporated.
"On this I can not blame them ..." grandfather Kazungu confirmed.
"I understand! - Kibebe said, the village idiot sbroffante waking from sleep in the game - today we celebrate the woman's boobs! "
That evening, for March 8, the village men cooked potatoes and Kid charcoal for their wives , sang folk songs to which women's voices joined in, dragging in tribal dances. Some of them also felt a drop of Mnazi, getting drunk once. Almost all made love with their husbands and who had two or three wives was a busy evening. Grandfather
Kazungu estimated that the first of December, the population of Kakoneni would increase by 90 percent. The evaporated
did not know whether to be happy for the women of Kakoneni or be convinced that he had an idea of \u200b\u200bthe cabbage.
But above all, at nine o'clock the party was already over and, much to the joy of Kibonge, men Tusker Malt uncorked at the Safari Bar, looking at West Ham and Portsmouth each time by a special toast.
"Long Live the March 8! Long live our women! "