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Natural henna seems to be gaining more and more popularity in Italy as well. These are natural dyes that not only allow you to color your hair but also nourish and preserve its volume. Nothing to do with supermarket dyes that, beyond some immediate nice results and compliments from acquaintances met on the street, over time tend to weaken the scalp and ruin the vigor and shine of our hair. Therefore, purchasing pure and high-quality henna is the first step we can take to give ourselves healthy hair as we grow. This is often an underestimated issue by teenagers who often use aggressive dyes to..

Have you ever heard of spagyria? Spagyric is the name that Paracelsus gave to his medical doctrine, based on alchemy, the study of nature and biological phenomena, and the therapeutic use of "chemical" products. The term would derive from the two operations of alchemical practice: separation and assembly (from the Greek spao and ageiro). As Paracelsus and many others explain, it involves extracting active principles from an entire plant using various methods, thus reaching different fractions that are then recombined, concentrated, purified, and potentiated. The preparation normally co..

Since we talked about how to make homemade iced tea with herbal teas and loose leaf tea, now we also need to know which drinks to prepare. In reality, all teas can be made cold... but there are some that turn out better; one of these is definitely hibiscus tea, and if you have ever been to Africa in the spring-summer period, you probably already knew that. Yes, because our dear African friends drink a lot of it considering that it is an excellent thirst quencher and with two/three tablespoons of leaves you can get a liter of drink.                                                         SO WH..

Henna, Lawsonia inermis, is a plant. It is a large bush, or a small tree, that grows in warm and dry climates. Since ancient Egypt, five thousand years ago, henna was regularly used to dye hair and may have been used in Jericho already eight thousand years ago. Henna was used to keep hair healthy and to color white hair. Henna leaves are harvested, dried, and powdered. When mixed with a slightly acidic liquid, henna will dye the skin, hair, and nails red-orange. Henna leaves contain a red-orange coloring molecule, lawsone, visible in the central vein of young leaves. Henna leaves contain one t..

If the English have imposed on Europe the taste for black tea, which they drink sweetened with a cloud of milk, green tea that has been consumed in China for five thousand years remains the drink of the vast majority of the peoples of Asia and the Maghreb. The best green tea gardens are found in mainland China, Formosa, and Japan. In China, the preparation of this tea has been more or less the same for immemorial time. In artisanal factories of cooperatives, the tea is roasted for less than a minute in large tanks, in order to destroy the enzymes of the leaves that could alter the quality of t..

Gentler winds, lighter and more transparent air, harmonious undulations give the gardens of Ceylon a more cheerful appearance. In plantations that sometimes do not exceed twenty hectares, a more human dimension is discovered. Most of the plantations are located in the southwest of the island. The most beautiful gardens, as always, are found between 1000 and 2500 meters, on the east and west slopes of the high plateaus. Depending on the orientation, they are influenced by one monsoon or the other; so on the east side, the best harvest is obtained from the end of June to the end of August, and o..

There is really a lot to say about Incense, that's why part I... HISTORY Incense appears in the history of many countries, both in the Arabian Peninsula, India, and China. It is mentioned, in its various forms and plants, in the Old Testament, in the Mahabharata, in papyri from ancient Egypt, in the Jewish Torah. Without mentioning all the passages where it appears, its presence in ancient sacred texts makes us understand two things: 1) that it is something that has been used for a very long time 2) that it is something that we can relate to the sacred sphere. In fact, one of the most commo..

Let's continue our journey to the East; from today Terza Luna offers you a new product: the hookah: whether to buy it or give it as a gift, or to smoke it here while drinking a cup of tea sitting on our puffs. Some historical notes: The hookah has always represented smoking in the East. It is important to consider that in the past it was not as easy as today to find cigarettes, which were expensive and short-lived. Instead, the hookah and its molasses have a lower cost and, like everything in our store, it revolves at a decidedly slow and relaxed pace. To smoke the hookah, you need to sit do..

So Let's start by clarifying a bit: let's begin by saying that teina does not exist; or rather it is used as a synonym for caffeine. So if we want to be correct and a bit picky, we must say that tea does not contain theine but caffeine. It seems quite clear as a concept, right? Caffeine, as everyone knows, is an active ingredient like many others found in plants. Let's say that this active ingredient is found in not many plants: coffee, tea, guayusa, yerba mate, and some other medicinal herbs, but in very low quantities. The plants that have the most are coffee (as many may have guessed) an..