Breathless?

Breathe!

by Pink Floyd

The Cosmetic Branch under the magnifier

We women discuss not to seldom the advantage of that or that cosmetics, so does media! Lately I have seen "Vichy" spending a lot of money on television commercials. "Vichy" can only be bough on Apoteket in Sweden, and they certainly can't afford this huge campaign. Do they think we are stupid? Only fruit, vegetables, massage and healthy active exercises and genes can keep the age-skin away. So I got this idea of making a series of posts on this subject (btw they are all dependent on the oil industry).

Starting with whom is behind all this different labels of cosmetic. We start with the giant LÓréal "because You are worth it" :-)

1. LÓréal is the following labels;

• LÓreal Paris
• Biotherm
• Body Shop
  
• Cacharel
• CCB Paris
• Garnier
• Giorgio Armani
• Helena Rubenstein
• Kerastase
• Kiehl´s
• Lancome
• La Roche-Posay
• Matrix
• Maybelline NY
• Ralph Lauren
• Redken
• Sanoflore
  
• Vichy
  

2. Procter & Gamble is the following labels:

• Procter & Gamble
  
• Clariol
• Covergirl
• Gilette
• Giorgio Beverly Hills
• Head & Shoulders
• Herbal Essences
  
• Hugo Boss
• Max Factor
• Olay
• Old Spice
• Pantene
• Wella

3. Unilever is the following labels:

• Axe
• Dove
• Rexona
• Pond´s

4. Shiseido is the following labels:

• Shiseido
• Carita
• Clé de Peau Beauté
• Decléor
• Serge Lutens

5. Estée Lauder is the following labels:

• Estée Lauder
• Aramis
• Aveda
• Clinique
• Donna Karan (DKNY)
• La Mer
• Orgins
• Tommy Hilfinger

6. Beiersdorf is the following labels:

• 8x4
• Atrix
• Eucerin
• Labello
• Nivea

7. Henkel is the following labels:

• Schwarzkopf & Henkel
• AOK
• Bac
• Diadermine
• Fa
• Gliss Kur
• Kaloderma
• Poly
• Schauma
• Schwarzkopf

Just to mention the seven largest companies ;-)
As I said before they are all dependent upon the petroleum industries, even if they nowadays tries to fool us with new labels under different ecological and nature-concept, many of them are mixed in the same machines. If You didn't find Your favourite label here, they might be a serious company ... (did I say that??? he he ;-)



Won't get fooled again by The Who

Next on this subject will focus on the content in those "precious" little tubs.

Congrats to THE BEST in TEST!

My constant companion and closely united conspirator and confidence-inspiring life-partner

BLACKIE

is 4 years today,
hipp hipp hurray


She doesn't care much for the garden-rose
but You can imagine by looking at her nose
that she is very happy listening to Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd won the Polar Prize 2008, not 2 avoid

mention those two loves of my life


What a Lovely Day!

The Polar Music Prize 2008 will Pink Floyd receive from His Majesty King Carl XVI of Sweden at a Gala Ceremony on Monday at Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden.

Hey You by Pink Floyd ;-)

Viagra a´ la "The Virgin Era"

Lately I have spend all my indoor spare-time (not much) in literature concerning spices that has a magical effect on fitness and health. The day of Madonna´s 50 years birthday, I happened to read about Lager Nobilis. Just when I entered the historical part (from a Scandinavian perspective) of the spice, they where playing "Like A Virgin" on the radio. I thought that was a rather funny experience, which encourage me to try to write a post on the subject at hand.

On the state of Apollo above You can see garland of Lager Nobilis Leaves (now You know what we are talking about *giggle*) .... but this is not what this post will focus! he he :-)

Laurel (lagerblad, lager nobilis, bay leafs) is one of the herbs in the famous French Le bouquet garni. The leaves has throughout history always been the symbol of Victory and in Swedish Universities we still are crowned with laurel wreath when we become doctors of art or science. (Art = philosophical disciplines like mathematics and other logical subjects). In ancient time the laurel was believed to possess magical forces. Like protectfulness against stroke of lightning. I guess they did not cover their head with leafs and went outside on a field, probably they covered a bed or a table and went underneath the furniture or covered the cave opening with the bush.
If You make a mix of bay leafs and cumin and put it in a bag on Your head You will be free from Your cold (probably connected to the laugh You will be encountered with when You walk around with that head-bag) . A genuine laugh a day can surely heal almost anything!

It says that The Roman empire Nero fled to a grove of laurel to escape from the ravages of the plague (Sv. pestens härjningar). Those Roman guys was cowards, wasn't they? Even today males in South-Europe are hiding, but today behind their mothers skirts ;-))

"Om man mister sin Mandom, så att han icke kan försvara sig hos sin hustru; för den svaghet skall man stöta lagerbär små, beblanda dem med lagerolja och smörja sina stenar och hemliga ting thermedh".
(Olaus Martini i1600-talets Sverige)

This was the Viagra treatment in old Swedish language,
I will freely translate it into post-post modern British ;-)

If You lose Your Manhood, so You make Your wife sad; You are in deep shit! Pound some small laurel berry mix them with laurel oil and caress stones and penis with the mix (hereby called Laurelgra).

The Laurel was dedicated to Apollo and Apollon. Apollo was the God of poetry, music and other arts of sensualities in the Greek mythology. You can visit the links for more about Apollo. ..... and GOOD LUCK! with the mix ;-)

Light my Fire by Minnie RIPERton & Jose Feliciano

Hysteric Channel by

Anna-Lys

080808

080808 isn't it a magic date?
almost like meaning
forever n' forever n' ever

art by A.L. Fuhrman "Eternity" accompanied by Lara Fabian and Josh Groban "For Always".




Wondering by

Anna-Lys