What are your favourite Cat Products? |Part One - Anthony|

Hello Catity Cat Cats!

I can still remeber very well the first product I bought from The Cat Is Organic, it was long before I could imagine that I'd be working with Cátia Cóias in this wonderful Portuguese brand.

So, the first product that I had the pleasure to try was Flash Eyelash! And I can almost hear you questioning: Why have you bought an Eyelash product Anthony? Well, I didn't bought it to use it on my eyelashes, instead I started using it as an hair product! Yes, that's right, that wonderful translucent liquid can do marvelous things to your hair.

From the beginning now: "Flash Eyelash" is a Thickening Herbal Growth Boosting Serum made with loving care and rich ingredients like fractionated Coconut Oil (which naturally draws out impurities). How could I dare not to love this product? 

How do you use it!? This is my trick...

1 - After shower, grab a little bit of the serum and rub it on your hands.

2 - Apply it on your hair and massage it on your scalp.

3 - Wait 5 minutes before you style it.

4 - Use you habitual styling product and do your magic.

You'll feel that your hair looks healthy, soft and moisturized. It's really an wonderful miracle t my hair. Usually when I use the serum I just left it that way. No more hair gel needed, It'll look good for the day!

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Espaço procura-se para Workshop de Cosmética&Higiene Pessoal Ayurvédica

PT| Estamos presentemente à procura de um local para durante 3 horas implementar um workshop de criação de cosmética/produtos de higiene pessoal Ayurvédica em Lisboa ou arredores.Em troca ofereceríamos um voucher a elementos integrantes do espaço,interessados em participar.

Para quem não conhece, a Ayurveda é um sistema de cura tradicional e milenar, originário da Índia,podendo assim  dizer-se que ela é a matriz da Medicina desenvolvida depois na China, no mundo árabe, em Roma e na Grécia. Este desenvolveu-se através da observação profunda da natureza (como um todo e o ser humano como seu constituinte), e possui  como base a utilização de métodos naturais (alimentação, ervas, óleos, técnicas de massagem, meditações, atividades físicas que integram mente-corpo,etc.) para prevenir doenças, restaurar a saúde, promover a vitalidade, a longevidade (com qualidade e propósito) e sensibilizar e a nossa percepção.

A palavra Ayurveda é um termo sânscrito que significa “ciência da vida”. Ayu significa “vida” (ou “modo diário de vida”) e Veda significa “conhecimento”. A Ayurveda olha para o ser humano de forma singular, com tratamentos adequados à natureza de cada um e também de forma holística, entendendo que somos como um sistema dinâmico de energias formando corpo, mente, emoções e espírito (ou consciência), ou seja, um todo indivisível e dinâmico.

As suas técnicas baseiam-se na crença de que o corpo humano contém três humores biológicos, conhecidos como Doshas.

Dosha é a caracterização do perfil biológico do indivíduo, de acordo com o ayurveda.

Existem três doshas: Vata, Pitta e Kapha, sendo que cada um apresenta suas determinadas características. Todas as pessoas possuem os três doshas, mas em proporções variadas. Eventualmente, há excesso ou carência de um dos três doshas, o que constitui um desequilíbrio, que pode originar uma doença.

O ayurveda restabelece o equilíbio original dos doshas da pessoa por meio de dietas, exercícios físicos, uso de plantas medicinais, meditação, yoga e massagem.

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The Cat is Organic Xtmas Kit Treats

Almost one month to go Xtmas...have you thought about the PRESENTS?

Weeeell,we did and we´ll give you a little paw-help:

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RANGOLI, our NEW AYURVEDIC facial line is soon to arrive!

But first and foremost… what is Ayurveda?

Literally, Ayurveda means, "The Science of Life." and its an Hindu system based on old times beliefs and facts of what we consider today alternative to the medicine.This is actually the oldest and most organized system of herbal healing in the world.
The science of Ayurveda is a unique holistic system, based on the interaction of body, mind and spirit. 

The treatment of Ayurveda is based on Indian herbs, which have a healing energy.Herbs have a unique flavor and intoxicating aroma, which contribute to their medicinal quality. 

Ayurveda it is also based on the theory of "Tridosha", somewhat like the "humours" of the Greeks. The three "doshas" represent combinations of the five elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether (or space), giving rise to the three basic constitutions of the human body.

The three "doshas" are Vata (a combination of Air and Ether); Pitta (a combination of Fire and Water) and Kapha (a combination of Earth and Water). The three doshas not only determine individual constitution, but our physical form and other attributes, our mental make-up and even individual metabolic processes. Most constitutions, however, result from the combination of two "doshas", with one being more predominant. All traits and even individual metabolism can be classified under the 3 doshas. However, most of us belong to dual dosha types and have traits of both the doshas, although traits of one dosha may be more prominent.

This Kitty Cat here is a Wild Vata! (wich explains many things...:D)

And what´s yours?
To discover if you are a Vata,Kapha or Pitta dosha, you can try this free online test:
http://www.banyanbotanicals.com/constitutions/

What´s your skin eating?

Though we still don’t know for sure what percentage of the chemicals we put on our bodies everyday is absorbed into the blood stream, the fact that it happens should be enough to motivate us to be more careful. For your health and the health of those you love, look at your skin in a different way—when you put something on it, imagine that substance inside your body. 

People used to think the skin was an impenetrable barrier, blocking anything from entering (or exiting) the body. After all, if it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be able to take a shower without bloating up with water, right?

Now we know better. Skin does provide a barrier to the world, but not an impenetrable one. Stay in the bath long enough and you’ll see—skin absorbs water to a certain extent, which is why it wrinkles.

i´m blushing!!!

Our NEW lovely pink loose powder blush is made of fine&natural things such as cocoa butter,pearl powder and other edible pigments!Looks sweet on skin and oooh...also smells DIVINE!

But where does Blush/Rouge comes from?
Here goes a a bit of history:

Since ancient times, women have been adding color to their faces by using a variety of different materials. Ancient Egyptians used ground clay to give their cheeks a healthy glow. Women from other cultures used the juice from beets and various berries to stain their cheeks a soft shade of pink. In Victorian times, ladies took great pride in having pale skin, and face paint was considered highly improper. Surreptitiously, young ladies would pinch their cheeks for added color before receiving suitors. It wasn’t until the 20th century that using blush became fashionable once more.

In modern times, rouge generally consists of a red-coloured talcum-based powder that is applied with a brush to the cheek. The colouring is usually either the substance of safflor, or a solution of carmine in ammonium hydroxide and rosewater perfumed with rode oil. A cream-based variant of rouge is schnouda, a colourless mixture of Alloxan with cold cream  which also colours the skin red.Rouge originated as a thick paste, and was made from a range of things: from strawberries, to red fruits and vegetable juices, to the powder of finely crushed ochre.

It became popular in ancient Greece, where women whitened their complexion with chalk or lead face powder, and then painted their cheeks with a paste made from crushed seeds and berries. This look was a sign of the wealthy elite, but the lead was also extremly deadly.The rise of Christianity resulted the decline of rouge as it  was seen as too flashy and promiscuous.

When the Middle Ages came around, however, women were more inclined to go back to blush. One tactic was to regularly bleed oneself (to obtain the coveted pale complexion), and then put a mixture of water and strawberries on cheeks for a soft rosy color. Others wore egg whites on their faces for paler skin, as being fair was a sign of high class but there was a fine line drawn where acceptable rouge was concerned. It was most common among upper class women and prostitutes, and was often seen as immoral but, as soon as Queen Elizabeth embraced makeup,it became more acceptable. Many women wore lead paints mixed with vinegar to create a past called cerise for whitened skin, and mercury sulfide for rouge. This combination is the reason why high foreheads were in fashion, because the chemicals caused hair to fall out! AKA: receding hairlines for women.

Lead and cerise are later discovered to cause major health issues for women, including facial tremors, paralysis, and even death. When toxic chemicals were in a rouge that was used on lips as well, it could poison not only the woman, but her unborn children: causing miscarriages.

One product that was eaten to produce white skin was called Arsenic Complexion Wafers. They poisoned the blood so that less red blood cells, and thus less oxygen, would reach organs. Rouges were also created with mulberry (a harmless vegetable) and cinnabar: which was indeed a poisonous red shade of mercury.

After the French Revolution, makeup was again seen as extravagant and improper, and women who wore it were seen as fake: trying to capture lost youth.

Sources

Wikipedia www.stylelist.com/read/history-rouge-or-you-know-it-blush/

 Know more 

here http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/bcb/rouge.php

here http://www.localhistories.org/cosmetics.html

and here http://www.vintageconnection.net/ModesInMakeup.htm

Did you know that many popular fragrances contain 14 secret hazardous chemicals on average?Many chemicals were found in lab tests but not listed on product labels!One is famous Coco Mademoiselle Chanel containing 18 chemicals not listed on the label!And so is Acqua Di Gio ,Calvin Klein Eternity, Clinique Happy Perfume,Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue and so on and on!*
NOT sexy!

* Environmental Working Group analysis of product labels and tests commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. 
Download the report here:http://safecosmetics.org/downloads/NotSoSexy_report_May2010.pdf#page=1

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Supermaket Skin Care Poisons!

Today we went for a casual Stroll to the Supermarket. And,checking their Skin Care Products, Cosmetics&Make Up just gave me the YIKES !!!

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120324-335477.html

From "Rose Water" without Rose...

To "Goji Berries" Body Lotions...

without Goji...

...to nasty chemical, hazardous&carcinogenic ingredients like Diethanolamine,Monoethanolamine, Triethanolamine,Dioxin,Hydantoin & Urea!It´s like shopping for...Poison!

Cosmetics aren't subject to the same oversight as food and pharmaceuticals, according to the Food & Drug Administration. The FDA doesn't have the responsibility to approve new ingredients or issue safety recalls,so it's up to the manufacturer to decide whether a product is safe!And apparently most of them just dont care!Cosmetics aren't subject to the same oversight as food and pharmaceuticals, according to the Food & Drug Administration. The FDA doesn't have the responsibility to approve new ingredients or issue safety recalls,so it's up to the manufacturer to decide whether a product is safe!

And apparently most of them just dont care!

So, next time popping in the supermarket (the same aplly to big Makeup,Fragrance and Skincare Shops),take a closer look to their Skincare products,read their labels C-A-R-E-F-U-L-L-Y (unfortunately we cant even relly 100% on this labels, but...*sigh) and you will surelly find precious "things" like this:

proclaiming a "Stroll in the nature"...

Check our Pinterest Board for more information: http://www.pinterest.com/thecatisorganic/harmful-cosmeticswhats-your-skin-eating/