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Hydration

I am going to dedicate my first post to hydration: inside and outside.

I think more attention is paid to external hydration than to internal. I was recently on a trip with a friend, and I observed that every day, before getting dressed, she put cream to hydrate her entire body and face. However, throughout the day, despite the hot weather, she hardly drank any water. Instead of water, she drank coffee and beer, depending on what time it was (both drinks dehydrates). And she was surprised that I always drank water with my meals.

Hydration, both internal and external, is very important, but I think internal hydration is more important than the external one. We are 70-80% water, and that water must be replaced throughout the day, especially if we are in a hot environment. If it is cold, it is normal that we are less thirsty, but we must drink the same (if we want hot drinks, we can do it in the form of tea or infusion) and our skin can look dry due to heating. If it is hot, we will naturally be thirstier, and if we sunbathe our skin will dry out more than if we are in the shade. In the case of children and the elderly, it is necessary to ensure that they drink water, especially the elderly, as they have a decreased sensation of thirst.

My trick to staying hydrated is to try to drink water every half hour (two sips). I drink water in the morning before breakfast (after rinsing my mouth with coconut oil), and at work. I have my water bottle (not plastic) to try to drink every half hour. Obviously if I’m on the street I can’t do this, but there is also the option of carrying a bottle of water in your bag. The green juices I have for dinner (two or three glasses) also hydrate. When you drink too much alcohol and coffee, or simply don’t drink enough water, it reflects on your energy and the condition of your skin.

Moving on to external hydration, I hydrate my face and neck in the morning and at night. I only use some good aloe vera (from my aloe vera plant), and lately, because I’m in my thirties, a little coconut oil at night, mainly in the eye and forehead area (I’m still scared that I get a grain for being oil, although not yet). I also hydrate my lips with coconut oil. And at night I put coconut oil on my hands, elbows, knees, and feet, before I go to sleep.

What I don’t normally do is hydrate my whole body. Why? Well, because it involves time and expenses on the product (even if it’s coconut oil) that I don’t want to assume. My face and hands are constantly exposed to the outside, so it makes sense to hydrate them daily. Elbows, knees and feet require very little amounts, and I hydrate them daily to prevent callus. But for the body, which is normally covered and only gets soaked briefly in the shower, I don’t see the need to use moisturizer (I don’t rub soap all over my body every day, just occasionally; I use soap only in private parts and armpits).

Of course, it would be another thing if, for example, I went swimming or to the beach to sunbathe, then I would hydrate my body too. But normally I don’t do that. And my skin is very soft (to a great extent thanks to the electrolysis hair removal). On TV and in pharmacies they sell us the idea that it is necessary to smear ourselves with creams every day (tonics, nutritive creams, eye contours, bla, bla, bla). Well look, it is not like that, and I have verified it in myself (in addition, creams are usually made of petroleum derivatives that seal the skin like a plastic). With a few products (aloe vera, coconut oil) normally applied only to the face, neck, hands and troubled areas, it is enough. And when the age is really noticeable (which will be less if the sun does not shine on our faces) it is better to go once or twice a year to one of those places that inject vitamins and all that stuff on your face, than to spend that money on creams. Anyway, I hope in my case that will be, at the earliest, at 40.

So, in conclusion, more internal hydration and fewer complications with the external one.

Until next time! 🙂

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Absurd things in fashion: ripped jeans

Hello everyone!!

In this October post I want to talk about how absurd fashion sometimes seems to me. And first of all I want to say that it seems perfect to me that one wants to be fashionable, dress well, combine clothes, etc. I like that too. But in fashion, as in everything, better with measure.

For a couple of seasons, it turns out that pants above the navel (I call them maternity pants) and ripped jeans are in fashion. I can accept the maternity ones (although they do not favor me at all and by the first wash they are already loose). Many say that they hold rolls better, that they lengthen the legs …they see all advantages. I do not see those advantages, but I did not like the skinny pants when they started, they seemed totally unsightly, and then, I have worn them. So even though I don’t like them, I accept maternity pants.

What I can’t stand is the ripped pants trend. Beyond the taste of each one, which obviously must be respected, it seems to me a total SCAM and a joke that people (or better said: fashion-victims, who are a good part of the female population) have accepted this scam with pleasure. Or by imposition, because last season it was really difficult for me to find low-cost jeans that were not ripped jeans. Why does it look like a scam to me?

  1. You are paying a defective product.
  2. You are paying a broken product.
  3. No matter how well you combine them, you’re wearing hobo pants.

Even worse, now they are selling patches for you to stick on your ripped jeans. Come on, they sell broken pants and they also sell you the patches so that you can put them on. I could better make my clothes myself and give the money directly to the cashier, without taking anything in return.

Excessive nonsense at its finest

Literally, that saying that if it becomes fashionable to wear a vase on your head people would wear it has become a reality. Inditex and other textile companies, do it please, I would laugh! Well, I’m sure that Amancio Ortega and other businessmen in the sector are laughing at the money generated by selling clothes made of rags at the same price as normal clothes. Those who would need to laugh a little are the poor Third World exploited people who weave all those clothes (although I suspect ripped jeans are just reused jeans) for the fashion-victims and compulsive consumers of “fast-fashion”, who “swallow” with everything they heard is a trend. Here is the link to a documentary that I recommend watching: The True Cost.

Until next time!!