Shower gels are not a very good topic for me. I can't wash them. Every time, after applying the shower gel, I have the feeling that I have not completely washed myself. Because I have oily skin.
But.... this gel won me over from the first sniff of the fragrance and now I use it as aromatherapy.
Products French company Yves Rocher I ordered a long time ago.
Somehow a catalog with their products came to me by mail and there was an offer: you buy for a certain amount and either as a gift or from at a super discounted price (though I don’t remember, since it seems more than 10 years ago) you are offered a set of two bags of different sizes + cosmetic bag. Yes, you do remember! Blue fabric with a light brown leather tag without any embossing on it.
I didn't order any more. And recently I noticed that in a neighboring city, the center of our region, a whole boutique was opened. Buy and don't wait!
So I got it to try Brazilian coffee shower gel at a promotional price.
Price: 99 rubles.
The consultant let me inhale the fragrance... and that's it... he conquered me.
I immediately remembered coffee Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks, which I tried in Thailand.
Plastic bottle with gel.
Volume: 200 ml.
Compound:
Aqua (water),
Sodium Laureth sulfate (harmful detergent SLS),
ammonium lauryl sulfate,
cocamidopropyl betaine,
propylene glycol,
Aloe barbadensis leaf juice,
Peg-7 glyceryl cocoate,
sodium benzoate,
Styreneiacrylates copolymer,
Tetrasodium edta,
Acrylates/c10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer,
sodium chloride,
Polyguaternium-7,
Methylpropanediol,
sodium lauryl sulfate,
Sesamum indicum seed oil,
Coffea arabica seed extract,
Potassium sorbate,
denatonium benzoate,
To be honest, I stopped looking for good stuff after SLS.
And there's really not much good there:
Company badge on the lid Yves Rocher.
07.01.2019 - 12:33
“You have to try everything in life!” Many people think so and, visiting overseas restaurants, randomly poke their fingers into the menu, hoping that now they will definitely be brought an unprecedented and unforgettable meal. And they will bring it! And the food will be truly unforgettable. If not the last in the life of a gourmet.
The indescribable aroma of hakarl
The descendants of the harsh Vikings who settled in Greenland adore hakarl, a dish that is prepared from the meat of the Greenland shark. Well, if they do not adore, they eat it without much disgust. And it is possible that if you find yourself in the northern regions, then you will be offered this local delicacy. And if you agree to try it, then first make sure that the dish is cooked correctly. Otherwise, death!
Proper cooking of the hakarl dish is as follows. First, pieces of shark meat are buried in the ground for seven weeks. Then they dry and air for four months. Then cut off the formed dark rotten crust. Hakarl is prepared from the yellow meat under the crust. That is, it is clear that if you want to track the whole process, you will have to come to Greenland for a long time.
Why such difficulties? The fact is that the Greenland shark is different in that it is completely unable to ... uh ... remove urine from the body in the traditional way. Liquid waste from the body of this animal permeates the body of the shark and exits directly through the tissues. So, if you do not do all these manipulations, you risk being fatally poisoned by ammonia and other acids contained in the urine.
And by the way, despite the skill of the chefs, the smell of shark urine still remains in the dish. And be warned, it's that scent!
Delicatessen for emergencies
The next hero of our table is also from Greenland. This is a traditional local dish called kivak (or kiwiak).
A simple person (not a native Greenlander) is recommended to eat kivak only as a last resort: when leather belts, soles and not the most pleasant and useful members of your expedition have already run out.
Kivak are the plucked corpses of sea birds (gulls and others), which are tightly stuffed into the partially gutted carcass of a young seal. Then the carcass is sewn up and carefully buried in the ground for a period of seven months to three years. During this time, the seal's intestines violently interact with the corpses of birds and form, according to the Greenlanders, a real delicacy worthy of serving only on very big holidays.
Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that you should not travel to Greenland on the eve of major local holidays. There is a chance you won't come back.
"Torment" of cod
Norwegians in terms of exotic cuisine are not far behind their neighbors. There is a dish in Scandinavia called lutefisk. To make it, they take ordinary cod, soak it for some time in caustic soda, then soak it for six days in water (the water is regularly changed), and what the cod turns into after that (something jelly-like), fried or boiled (and now they even cook in the microwave) and serve it on the table.
Doctors believe that this dish, due to its treatment with soda, contains a toxic amino acid. But the Norwegians themselves claim that there is very little acid, and in general it turns out very tasty. But the plates from which lutefisk was eaten should be washed immediately, since the next day it is no longer possible to scrape off the remains of this jelly from the dishes. And what happens in the human stomach after consuming lutefisk - the Norwegians are silent.
lovely carambola
Let's move on to South Asia. Here, as a dessert, you can be offered a fruit with the romantic name carambola. It is really tasty, quenches thirst well and looks very nice: a kind of juicy fleshy star, freely located on a plate.
Everything looks beautiful and appetizing, but in no case should carambola be abused by people suffering from gastritis, stomach ulcers, as well as those who have diseased kidneys. The fact is that this fruit contains a crazy amount of oxalic acid and therefore is able to turn your stomach into a chemical laboratory of a mad scientist at the stage of self-destruction. Eat better with a banana.
Poor mouse
And in Asian countries, you can be offered bat soup. This is not a lethal dish. But we must keep in mind that the mouse in the soup will be present in its entirety, without any cutting. You yourself will have to rid it of the remnants of wool, leathery wings and other inedible mouse paraphernalia. If after all the manipulations you are still able to eat this soup, then you have a very strong stomach.
Potentially dangerous is that this particular, ill-cooked mouse may be a carrier of some infectious disease. Oh, and yet, "green" organizations are categorically against such methods of cooking bats, and therefore their representatives can also harm your health right at the time of the meal.
They are not poisonous!
In Africa, in Namibia, they will try to feed you a dish made from poisonous bullfrogs. You will be told that these frogs have undergone serious processing, that is, they were kept for some time in pots along with special wood chips inside, designed to somehow neutralize the poison.
You will be convinced that these frogs, lying on your dish, were collected at the very time of the year when their poison is the least dangerous. Remember, you have every right to refuse, introducing yourself to the host as a staunch vegetarian, or citing the fact that you didn’t have time to write a will before the trip. Or you can have a bite, just conduct this experiment, taking a phone in your hand with the number of the nearest ambulance already dialed. Yes, just in case.
If you are brought to Cambodia, then in the menu of local restaurants you can find a dish with the short name a-ping. In response to the question - what is it? - the locals will smile at you and lick their fingers - oh, how delicious! You will not stand it and order a-ping.
If you are an adherent of classical cuisine, then do not believe the cunning Asians. A-ping is a fried tarantula with salt and garlic. These spiders are grown on special tarantula farms, but they say that the most delicious tarantula is the one that was caught in the wild.
You can eat them, these tarantulas. They say that their meat is quite tender, like pork, but contains almost no fat. The main thing is that the chef does not forget to snatch his poisonous mandibles for the next candidate to become a delicacy. Otherwise, this dinner will be the last in your life.
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The best bookstores in the world
Today, with the help of modern technology, you can carry a whole library with you literally in your pocket, without making any special efforts. Almost any text can be found on the Internet, downloaded and read directly from the screen. It would seem that the end of bookstores and libraries has come. But this did not happen and real printed books are in no hurry to leave, leaving a place for electronic ones. In fact, what can be compared to the pleasure when, sitting in a cozy armchair with a cup of hot tea, you start turning over the pages of a new book with that indescribable special "bookish" smell and anticipation of meeting something new. Or that aching feeling that grips a true reader who opens not for the first time a long-familiar book that is more than a dozen years old. After all, her pages keep a completely different flavor - the emotions of all her former readers. And how to compare the chic illustrations of the deluxe edition, its heaviness, the satin surface of its pages and the velvet cover with gold lettering with the image on the screen? Let's leave things for later and go through the bookstores of the world, real treasures that store the most valuable and expensive - books.
book theater
El Ateneo Grand Splendid is the most famous bookstore in Argentina. Almost a century ago, a theater building was built in Buenos Aires, which at the beginning of this century was destined to turn into a bookstore. The decor and frescoes that once adorned the theater building were completely preserved in the interior of the store. El Ateneo Grand Splendid is one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. More than a million visitors come to El Ateneo every year! And not only to buy, but also just to read a book in a particularly cozy atmosphere of the theater.
Temple of Literature
The Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen bookstore in the Netherlands was once a real temple. Initially, the building in which the store is located was a Dominican church built in the 13th century. Now it is the Temple of Books, considered one of the most beautiful bookstores, although its interior is somewhat unusual for a store. For those who are somewhat frozen in its stone walls, choosing a new book for themselves, they will offer hot tea or a cup of coffee.
Which of us has never been told by our mother: "Don't eat with food - it's bad!" But the book is much more interesting, and the food is much tastier if you combine them! Nothing whets the appetite like reading an interesting book. Especially if it mentions royal feasts, friendly feasts and just a good family dinner! Although, of course, reading and eating at the same time is harmful - for books! Somehow this issue has been resolved in Brussels, where there is a special bookstore Cook & Book in Brussels. An absolutely charming place for those who like to choose books for a long time, reading them right at the bookshelves. The fact is that the bookstore is combined with a restaurant where you can have a late breakfast and an early lunch. A good place for romantic meetings and pleasant acquaintances with like-minded people, don't you think?
national monument
Yes, even a bookstore can become a national monument. This is exactly what happened with Livraria Lello, the main attraction of the city of Porto (Portugal). The building was designed specifically for a bookstore, as imagined by Francisco Xavier Estevez. The Neo-Gothic building, carved wooden ceilings, massive curved staircases, stained glass ceilings - doesn't all this remind you of the famous Hogwarts library?
For kids
All the best for the kids! This is how you can appreciate Poplar Kid's Republic - a bookstore-library, which was created especially for young readers. The first shop in China specializing in illustrated children's books opened not so long ago - in 2005 and became the embodiment of a childhood dream of its creators. A real world of childhood with cozy "burrows" for reading and a fantastic setting. Two floors of fabulous reality or real fairy tales!
Bookworld on the water
Acqua Alta is a bookstore in Venice that rightfully bears its name, which can be translated as the Flood Library or Big Water. This store is neither particularly beautiful, nor ultra-modern, nor the largest. During a high rise in water, it even gets warm, but it is this special atmosphere of a Venetian bookstore and the opportunity to “rummage around” in search of an interesting specimen that bring crowds of visitors here. The books here are not neatly arranged on the shelves - they are just everywhere: stacked against the walls, in a real gondola, and even in the bathroom! Another distinguishing feature of the store is the cats that roam freely among the books.
In the company of Shakespeare
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Among the huge number of bookstores in our country, one cannot help but recall the St. Petersburg House of Books. The oldest bookstore in Russia, located in the famous "Singer House", will celebrate its 90th anniversary this year. Today "House of Books" is not only one of the largest in our country, but also one of the five largest bookstores in Europe.
The bookstore is a special place on Earth. Portal in time and space. Time itself stops here, here we are transported into history, fantasy, art, dreams - in an instant. At the moment when we open another book taken from the shelf. Whether it's a secondhand book with a century of history or a brand new book, still smelling of printing ink, with intact pages.
Indescribable perfume
Perfume No. 19 enjoys some notoriety in my parents' house. In the 1970s, this was one of my mom's favorite scents. She liked him, and she "worn" him all the time. Until one day in 1980, they went with their father to see the house they were planning to buy. In those days, no one clearly suspected the need to brew coffee in order for a house for sale to have an aroma that would attract buyers, so my parents were greeted by the smell of boiled cabbage. On the stove was a whole pot of cabbage, which was already boiling. As they looked around the rooms, the smell intensified so much that they both nearly vomited and had to rush out into the fresh air. Two days later it was 19's turn, and they both recoiled from him saying, "God, that's that cabbage smell."
Since then, perfume has retired.
I must immediately make a reservation: No. 19 does not smell like cabbage. Unfortunately, one smell only overlapped another and subsequently evoked a cabbage stink. Perhaps the association was supported by certain ingredients of formula No. 19, in particular galban - an aromatic resin that smells of greens (at a concentration, like in a garbage truck) and orris root, starchy and vegetable, even slightly carroty.
No. 19 appeared in 1971, immediately after the death of Gabrielle Chanel. It was the first new perfume of the House after a 16-year break. Prior to that, only the men's fragrance Pour Monsieur was released in 1955. The 1940s also passed without novelties, as Chanel No. 5 was in enduring demand. Perfume No. 19 was Gabrielle Chanel's personal fragrance and was named after her date of birth, August 19th. Gabrielle was obsessed with numerology, and if you take a quick look at the symbolism of the number "19", then "1" means the beginning, and "9" the end, and the number thus contains two opposite entities.
Perfume No. 19 was the expression of a younger and livelier style for Chanel - a feeling reinforced by Cristalle 1974 - and this style the brand tried to personify with the words "witty", "sincere", "interesting" and "confident". Chanel tried to create a kind of feminine identity for the perfume, different from the usual sex bomb or romantic young lady. But fragrance No. 19 never made a big profit for the brand. It remains attractive to a small group of devoted fans who adore this fragrance. Perfume No. 19 is impossible to categorize or try to define its identity. The fragrance opens with notes of green cut stems (they are more noticeable in the eau de toilette than in the concentrated perfume). Sometimes this coolness is compared with the cold, from which the teeth knock out shots, isolation or frigidity. Luca Turin and Tanya Sanchez, in their book Perfumes: A Guide from A to Z, compare No. 19 to the cold and angry “wire mother” of the infant-mother theory, which contrasts it with the softer and warmer “ tissue mother" ("cloth mother"). However, this interpretation does not correspond to the feelings of admirers of this fragrance, for whom the same facets of the fragrance are revealed in a friendly way and are in no way associated with a scalpel cut.
Olfactory hallucinations- deceptions of smell of different contents. The list of possible imaginary odors would probably be very extensive. We confine ourselves, however, to a general description. There are three broad groups of perceptual delusions.
The first consists of hallucinations of unpleasant content. These are imaginary odors associated mainly with a depressed mood, often also including anxiety, fears, and suspicion of patients. Such are the smells of some poisonous substances, decay, decomposition, decay. For example: "I smell a corpse... It smells of hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, nitro paint... It stinks unbearably of something putrid, like in a garbage heap." Trying to somehow weaken, drown out these odors, patients plug their noses with cotton, put on respirators, ventilate the room, turn on fans, spray deodorants, etc.
The second group is represented by imaginary smells of something pleasant.: “It smells of violet perfume, my favorite ... I feel that it smells divine, something inexplicably pleasant, I have never felt such smells before ... This is an indescribable aroma, it gives me indescribable pleasure ... Such smells must be, there is only in paradise, it smells of something in an unearthly pleasant way. Such deceptions of smell, in comparison with the previous ones, are observed relatively rarely and are of short duration. Patients with visible pleasure inhale these "smells", and this is noticeable in the joyful expression of their faces. Hallucinations of this type are more characteristic of high spirits, sometimes including elements of ecstasy.
Finally, the third group of olfactory deceptions is represented by imaginary odors of a relatively neutral nature. It “smells” of something ordinary, ordinary, which patients almost do not pay attention to and do not formulate in complaints about their well-being. Olfactory hallucinations also differ in where patients identify their source. Thus, imaginary odors are often localized by patients somewhere in the space around them: in a room, on the street, in a working room, etc. In such cases, their explanations often boil down to the fact that someone is trying to poison them, warning them of danger, or with someone something irreparable has happened, for example, the corpse of a murdered person, their stolen cat, is decomposing.
Patients explain the appearance of pleasant odors in a slightly different way. For example, by the fact that they are associated with some miraculous phenomena, as imaginary as the smells themselves, happy events. Sources of imaginary, usually unpleasant odors are often localized by patients somewhere inside themselves. For example, there is a smell of decomposition of internal organs, a putrid smell, the smell of sweat, urine, etc. In such cases, olfactory deceptions are accompanied by appropriate interpretations.
Finally, imaginary odors, according to patients, have a completely unusual projection and localization. There is, for example, a "smell" in the stomach, chest or even the head. Olfactory hallucinations differ, moreover, on the following basis: whether patients identify their character or not. In most cases, with more or less certainty in hallucinations, they recognize the smells they are familiar with. In some cases, patients assure, it smells of something completely unfamiliar to them, which they have never encountered before in life. In the latter case, obviously, we can talk about a phenomenon similar to other hallucinations, when patients are presented with some completely new images that have arisen as a result of the disease.
