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Bathing Beauty The Japanese Bath by Bruce Smith, X In the West, a bath is a place one goes to cleanse the body. In Japan, one goes there to cleanse the soul. Bathing in Japan is about much more than cleanliness: it is about family and community. It is about being alone and contemplative, time to watch the moon rise above the garden. Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style and the innate beauty of the steps surrounding the process. The authors explain how to create a Japanese bath in your own home. A Zen meditation, the Japanese bath, indeed, cleanses the soul, and one emerges refreshed, renewed, and serene.
Natural Beauty for All Seasons: 250 Simple Recipes and Gift-Giving Ideas for Year-Round Beauty by Janice Cox, In her enormously successful first book, Natural Beauty at Home, Janice Cox gave us hundreds of easy-to-use recipes for home beauty treatments. In this delightful new book, she offers readers more than two hundred brand-new recipes for body, bath, and hair care, with an eye toward special beauty needs and ingredient availability in each of the four seasons. None of the recipes calls for any more skill than being able to boil water, and an introductory section tells what equipment is necessary and where ingredients can be found, easily. In addition, the book presents more than fifty sophisticated gift-giving ideas for holidays and other occasions throughout the year - from a College-Bound Basket to Candy Cane Bath Salts - and shares ideas on how to package your gifts creatively.
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast is a fantasy novel reissued by HarperTrophy in June 1993. As the title states, it is Robin McKinley's version of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty contest - A beauty contest or beauty pageant is a competition between people that is based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. Almost invariably, competitions for men and women are separate events, and those for men are not referred to as beauty contests except derogatorily. Beauty salon - A beauty salon is a place where people go to receive beauty treatments, and purchase beauty products. Sea bathing - Sea bathing is swimming in the sea or in sea water. Unlike bathing in a swimming pool, which is generally done for pleasure or exercise purposes, sea bathing was once thought to have curative or theraputic value. bathingbeauty |
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