Too Much In The Sun

Posted in: Environment, Featured by Catalina Toma | March 24th 2011 | no comments

Turn off the lights please! Make it day time! And there came the day with its breaking dawns and its bright sun… What if I end up wishing I could turn off and on in whatever moment pleases me the light of the sun or the light of the moon? If you had a button that would [...]

Autumn Fruit Bowl

By Catalina Toma | October 5th 2010 | no comments

Fall season-some of us hate it for the never ending rains, some of us love it for the never ending fruit bowl. What do you think about this season? Do you hate it or love it? You should first try and use its fruits and after that decide on which side you are. Apples can do wonders for your beauty, for they contain alpha-hydro acids, contributing to refreshing your skin and also being [...]

Green Options…Green Cities

By Catalina Toma | October 5th 2010 | no comments

We always find ourselves in a moment of contemplation of the nature, especially now that autumn made its way to becoming the landlady of the season. We look and linger in our memory the image of leaves falling down from trees, the fantastic spectrum of colors starting from yellow and ending [...]

Learn From The Greeks

By Catalina Toma | October 4th 2010 | no comments

Fruits and other herbs make our lives sweeter, bring color into our life, enchanting our eyes and our taste and at the same time have been used since ancient times in day to day beauty rituals. It only takes for you to discover them and learn how to use them taking all the benefits. And as such we should all learn from ancient Greek rituals as they were the first to try and [...]

All Mighty Nature Makes History

By Catalina Toma | October 1st 2010 | no comments

What is it that you prefer? Having a pale face, a porcelain-like face, widening the appearance of your eyes, painting your lips in red or instead maintaining a natural appearance? It seems that all along the history of cosmetics, women have interpreted beauty in various ways. From ancient times, man managed to discover various ways allowing him to take care of his body and embellish [...]

Weird Ingredients…Unequivocal Results

By Catalina Toma | October 1st 2010 | one comment

You certainly used more than one time a facial cream or you have reddened your lips by using lipstick, or perhaps you only wanted to enhance the beauty of your eyes and you used mascara or eyeliners in order to do this. All these beauty needs if we may call them this way, prove that [...]

Coffee, Tea? Tea Would Do You Good

By Catalina Toma | September 30th 2010 | no comments

Have you ever watched the movie Working Girl? It is a rather old movie yet, when I think about tea, I can see Joan Cusack, pretending to be Melanie Griffith’s secretary and asking Harrison Ford in a scene of the movie “Coffee, Tea, Me?” I can ask you the same thing, yet referring [...]

The Always Surprising Vinegar

By Catalina Toma | September 30th 2010 | no comments

We have to face everyday routine activities. Some of us like this, some don’t. Yet, there is a saying stating that we don’t always do what we like. We have to keep our house clean, cook tasty meals, wash ourselves and above all take care of ourselves. As such, vinegar can [...]

Bananas Alias “Nature’s Good Mood Food”

By Catalina Toma | September 29th 2010 | no comments

Bananas can be considered what people call a miracle of nature. They are to be mentioned among the most fortuitous world’s fruits. Being highly appreciated by monkeys, children and adults as well they have gained a rather favorable position in the planet’s fruit bowl. If we were to think about the fact that many horticulturists consider it to be the earth’s first fruit, it is no [...]

Poisonous Yet Beautiful Ornamental Plants

By Catalina Toma | September 29th 2010 | no comments

Even though beautiful, some flowers prove to be quite dangerous as they may cause severe headaches, convulsions and even death. Apparently doing no harm and being used in order to embellish the places we live in, they prove one more time, the fact that nature is always [...]

Honey, Give me Some Honey!

By Catalina Toma | September 29th 2010 | no comments

According to Benjamin Franklin "If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth." "The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting." And the list of those who didn’t fail to refer to the sweet substance called honey may continue. Yet I don't know why but I find the song "Honey, honey" interpreted by the Feist to be appropriate when deciding to take on a subject like this [...]

The Miracle Of Symbiosis In Nature

By Catalina Toma | September 28th 2010 | no comments

When one mentions symbiosis is usually referring to the interconnection between the existences of two separate organisms, organisms which have developed a usually permanent relationships. I for one compare symbiosis with our need to socialize and make [...]

The Overwhelming Benefic Effects of Lemons

By Catalina Toma | September 28th 2010 | no comments

Whenever one thinks about a lemon or sees another person eating a slice of lemon, he tends to make wry faces. Though highly used for cooking purposes, providing a unique taste and aroma to food, its sour taste makes it rather hard to be chewed. Yet, people seem to love the taste of lemon [...]

Deadliest Creatures Of The Ocean And The Marine Environment

By Catalina Toma | September 28th 2010 | no comments

Most of us have probably once thought about going on a cruise on the world’s oceans, and as such be able to explore this wonderful and magnificent environment. Yet, few of us know more about ocean life. Covering more than 70 percent of our planet, oceans sustain all life on earth and [...]

Most Endangered Species Of Sea Turtles Or The Fight Against Human Cruelty

By Catalina Toma | September 27th 2010 | no comments

How many of you happen to have a turtle in your apartment, considering it to be your pet? How many of you have ever bought a sea turtle shape object, jewelery or anything reminding you of one? I for one, have a close friend who developed a passion for sea turtles and surrounds herself with all kind of turtle shaped objects. I find them to be very interesting animals and very beautiful [...]

Girl’s Guide to Detoxing

By Irina Ionescu | September 23rd 2010 | no comments

Once we start the new season, radical changes need to happen to our bodies! Keep them in shape and they will honor us for years. Feel like you put up some weight? Try one (or more) of the following body makeovers for guaranteed results. Juice Cleanse - all juice, all the time. The basic result you will feel after this treatment is more energy in your body. A boost of vitamines and [...]

Food for Thought

By Irina Ionescu | September 23rd 2010 | no comments

If you want to have a balanced lifestyle, you should definetely take care of what you eat, when you eat and especially what your body and brain asks for! You always concentrate better whenever you're in good shape, right? For all these you need plenty of calories [...]

Feed Your Mind … Organic

By Irina Ionescu | September 22nd 2010 | no comments

The body isn't the only one which needs healthy food, but also the brain! Find what's best to eat to keep your mind sharp and clear, to focus better and improve your memory...   Statistics show that, despite the fact that brain doesn't weight more than 1400 g, [...]

Make Over Your Makeup

By Irina Ionescu | September 22nd 2010 | no comments

Let's face it- a woman's beauty kit is almost always an endless source of cosmetic products, and rarely you will see a woman leaving without a true arsenal kit in her huge bag. But how many of these products do we really use? And of them all, how many we actually manage to [...]