You’ll Be Sweet!
I have just learned how to make the “sweetest” hair spray at home. What’s even better about this “good enough to eat” hair spray is it’s a 2 ingredient wonder that will provide you with a gentle hold. All you need to make this beauty is a spray bottle, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 4 tablespoons of hot water. Dissolve the sugar in the hot water, transfer to spray bottle, shake well and spritz on as desired. Too easy!
NB. I can vouch for this gorgeous little homemade hairspray’s effectiveness. However, I can’t say with 100% certainty that the ants won’t adore this hairspray as much, if not more than you. Eek! Only kidding!
Some Fabulously Fun Facts About Our Skin!
Did you know:
- That the skin is the largest organ in the human body?
- Skin is waterproof?
- There are approximately 25,000 “good” bacteria per square centimeter of skin?
- Skin on the lips and eyelids is the thinnest and the thickest skin is on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet?
- You will shed approximately 13.5 kg of skin over your lifetime?
- That the skin can sense up to 5 different types of stimulation: touch, heat, pressure, cold, and pain?
- That the skin regulates body temperature?
- The average person has approximately 2 sq. meters of skin covering their body, it weighs about 3.2 kg and comprised of about 300 million skin cells?
- On average each sq. centimeter contains about 10 hairs, 1 sq meter of blood vessels, 100 sweat glands, and 15 sebaceous glands?
Just amazing!
Ambergris.
What kind of grease? Ambergis. I know not why, but I just felt inspired to post a wee spotlight on Ambergris. Ambergris is a product of the Sperm whale’s biliary system and is often found secreted in the whale’s intestines and later excreted. I know, I know, end Discovery Channel-like synopsis already. But this super cool, somewhat sweet, musky and earthy smelling gray or very occasionally blackish waxy, solid, and highly flammable substance has been traditionally used in manufacture of fine perfumes and can be found, albeit rarely, washed up on many shores around the globe. Ambergris is used as a fragrant fixative in perfumery and is often what gives the rather musk-like scent to many perfumes.
Due to Ambergris’ obvious whale connection, it is hardly used these days and quality synthetic Ambergis is incorporated out of preference and remains highly effective for use in fragrance manufacture. At a time, it was prohibited to use Ambergris in fragrance due to its ties to the whaling industry, but the legislature preventing its use was overturned as many believe it not to be a byproduct of the whaling industry. Afterall, Ambergris can be found washed up on shores and harvested far from the presence or contact of Sperm whales still to this day. Although there is currently no prohibition on natural Ambergris’ use, it is often given a wide berth for ecological reasons and sensitivities nonetheless. Betcha didn’t know all that. Pretty neat, hey? Good ole Ambergris.
A Bit Like Cookies & Milk.
“Beauty is not beauty without love.” -Thomas Campion
Little Downy Darlings.
Several months ago I wrote a Get Even More Gorgeous With Beauty Marked! Blog post come poem in the form of an address to one of my most favourite beauty tools and it’s definitely worthy of singing its praises once again. Actually, this natty little downy darling is not only deserved of a royal repost, but quite possibly public holiday-worthy, if you ask me. So in the meantime, while not-so-patiently awaiting the Public Holiday Decreeing Council to convene and come to my senses, here’s an esteemed encore posting for your reading pleasure. All hail the humble cotton bud! Ode To A Cotton Bud
And So It Is.
“in the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. My life is ever new. Each moment of my life is new and fresh and vital. I use my affirmative thinking to create exactly what I want. This is a new day. I am a new me. I think differently. I speak differently. I act differently. Others treat me differently. My new world is a reflection of my new thinking. It is a joy and a delight to plant new seeds, for I know these seeds will produce my new experiences. All is well in my world.”
-Louise L. Hay.
**Glorious excerpt from Louise L. Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life
Herald The New!
Happy New Year! Beauty Marked! wishes you the most outrageously fantastic, spirited, love and fun-filled, amazingly creative, prosperous and breathtakingly beautiful 2008! Here’s to a miraculous year!
Always,
Beauty Marked! x
