Super (skin) food
‘If you can’t eat it, why put it on your skin?’. I pretty much live by this beauty adage. After all, with your skin being one of your body’s largest organs, anything – and I mean anything! – you put onto your skin will end up in your bloodstream.
After a divine massage with olive oil in London recently, I felt revived for days, realizing that the oil not only gave me dewy skin, but was making glow from the inside out. It turns out that olive oil is packed with vitamin E and polyphenols: powerful antioxidants that gather and neutralize free radicals – think sun damage – that otherwise harm and age your skin. Since then, extra-virgin olive oil has been my beauty staple. I use it as a body oil, a makeup remover, a pre-shampoo hair treatment (heat the oil, then leave it in your hair for 20 minutes), a cuticle conditioner; you name it! Hey, if it was good enough for Cleopatra, it’s definitely good enough for me!
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Building bridges
From the Erasmus Bridge and the Mercedes-Benz Museum to Qatar’s metro network; Ben van Berkel’s iconic landmarks bring people together in rapturous beauty, again and again. I talked with the Dutch architect and educator about sensuality, ‘healthy’ buildings and the remarkable parallels between our designs.
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More than a feeling
Don’t ignore your emotions; they are much more powerful than you can imagine. By linking the magical world of emotions with hard science, Dutch scientist Pierre Capel, professor emeritus in experimental immunology, shows us the consequences of our feelings and the power of our minds. The message: we can do much more than we think. “Meditate. It’s the single best thing you can do for your health.”
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Keto curious?
The fact that I feel bikini-confident all year round is, of course, a nice bonus. But for me, the biggest payoff of following the keto diet is the way it optimizes my health and gives me tons of energy.
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Marlies Says
Super (skin) food
‘If you can’t eat it, why put it on your skin?’. I pretty much live by this beauty adage. After all, with your skin being one of your body’s largest organs, anything – and I mean anything! – you put onto your skin will end up in your bloodstream.
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