The Magical Properties Of Perfumes & Fragrances

The word perfume literally means ‘through smoke’ and it was by walking through the smoke of a fire, on to which a fragrant potpourri of scented woods and spices had been thrown, that the earliest perfumes were worn. Later, incense was burned in temples and on altars and the fragrant wreath of smoke offered up [...]

Principles Of Good Posture

BALANCE Your posture can only be as good as your sense of balance no better and you should therefore work at improving both simultaneously. Most people do not even begin to become aware of their sense of balance until it starts deserting them. But balance is much more than the differ­ence between remaining upright and [...]

Body Fat Measurements & Posture!

Measurements: The contours, or general shape, of your body are deter­mined, first, by your body type, second, by how well toned your muscles are and, third, by specific concentrations of flesh and distributions of fat. To find out how well-proportioned you are, measure yourself around the bust (when breathing in), around the waist (at its [...]

What Is Beauty?

To the ancient Greeks, the secret of beauty lay in the proportions of the face. They divided it into three equal parts hairline to eyebrow, eyebrow to upper lip, upper lip to chin and called it the golden section. For them, beauty was a straightforward matter of mathematics. Renaissance painters kept to mathematics but divided [...]