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Add Collagen and Vitamin C to your Daily Shower With This | Wellbeing

This is not your normal shower head, Waters Therapy Shower will totally transform your daily showering ritual, the specialist cartridges infuse the softened water with additional vitamin C (to condition and soften skin), collagen (to help enhance skin’s elasticity) and aroma-therapeutic essences (citrus or lavender), to help restore emotional equilibrium, to get better results, users advice to use this antibacterial body soaps, . Tap water is traditionally treated with all manner of chemicals – including chlorine – which is not only ruinous for hair and skin, but can exacerbate conditions such as asthma, eczema and skin sensitivity. What’s more,

This innovative shower head is also kinder for the environment as it helps you save water, and by removing impurities, there’s less likelihood of limescale accumulating in your shower (which means less time spent cleaning it!) you can get it with the different shower door manufacturers in your area. When it comes to getting a tan, the Bare by Vogue products are the ones you need to get to avoid the sun but still get a great look.

This shower head retails at £105 and you can buy it online at Cult Beauty with FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. It comes with 2 refill cartridges and you can choose between Citrus or Lavender.

Softer water not only leaves locks looking lustrous and skin feeling soft, but also has far fewer chemical nasties which can compromise our health – which is why we’re all lathered up over Waters Therapy Shower; a detachable shower head which fits (almost) every standard fitting, to soften hard water and filter potentially harmful additives such as chlorine. What’s more, you can transform your shower into an aromatherapy steam room, if you choose one of the heavenly scented cartridges – ‘citrus’ is gorgeously fresh and zingy, to help you dive into the morning, while ‘lavender’ is perfect for helping you wind down whilst you wash the day away.

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21 Nov ’1121 Nov ’11

Beirutopia : A Concept For A Greener Beirut By Studioinvisible

Beirut, Lebanon is known to be a very polluted city. With the chaos during the years of war, building regulations were not respected, not to mention whatever ‘green’ Lebanon was known for is being diminished by the day. Political greed lead to the environmental catastrophe Lebanese are now living in. It is time to raise awareness and come up with solutions to stop the wrong and try to introduce alternatives or some kind of “patchwork” to the existing mess. This is where Studioinvisible come in, they proposed a concept to help Beirut restore some of its ‘green’.

Studioinvisible’s concept:

Given the circumstances, the most pragmatic solution will be to have a municipal decree that requires each building to grow it’s simple rooftop garden (by require we mean harshly implement, by force if necessary). Nothing fancy, just a couple of trees in a large fixed pot on each rooftop. As incentives to the urban population, the municipality can offer tax reductions or benefits to the buildings that have a well maintained rooftop garden, and the gardening/plant companies could offer discounts and sponsorship, and later claim that they turned Beirut green (we can already predict their campaigns).

There are many types of tree that can grow in the Beirut climate to 3-4 meters high in a simple 1 meter pot, such as the olive tree, the Schinum Molle, Morus Alba, Melia azaderachh, Punica Granatum, Etc… In order to prevent these trees from falling in case of high winds, they could be connected by three steel wires to the roof slab.

The advantages of having this done on a large scale are many. Better oxygen levels and a healthy environment is the first that comes to mind, but also a layer of trees will provide shade and accordingly soften the increasingly hot and arid climate, which in turn would lead to a lower level of energy consumption. Moreover, semi public green spaces will be created for the respective residents of each building, increasing even further the quality of living within the city itself. On the other hand, depending on the choice of trees and plants, these gardens can evolve into a sort of urban farming, yielding a small but valuable agricultural output.

Ultimately, If the plan works out, Beirut could become a rooftop wonder forest, the whole city as a Landmark: Beirutopia.

StudioInvisible (pronounced in French), is a multidisciplinary design consultancy working in the fields of Urban Planning, Architecture, Interior & product Design, Visual Branding and Political Science, and aiming to provide the world with Avant-Garde Design interventions as well as in-depth Cultural, Social and Political guidance. Composed of Architect and Urban Designer Wassim Melki, Colonel Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, the studio is an open platform for debate and thought-sharing.

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17 Apr ’1121 Mar ’24

Former Renault Factory Now a Green Roofed School

At a time when children are confined to a world of video games, indoor activities, and less resources for a natural environment, this amazing project comes up to make it up for the lucky students who will be attending this school. Creative School play area painting will also enable different outdoor activities for students.

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20 Oct ’10

CITROËN and LACOSTE Concept Car

CITROËN and LACOSTE have come together with a shared vision of creativity and optimism and thus came up with the CITROËN LACOSTE concept car. The new concept car is both resolutely CITROËN and typically LACOSTE. The technology on board also strikes a playful note, underlining the seeming paradox between design expertise and lightness of tone.

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23 Aug ’10

Ground Zero Mosque to be the First LEED certified Mosque in the U.S.

The “Ground Zero Mosque” and community center has been one of the hottest topics lately to the extent of taking over the devastating news of the floods in Pakistan. This is a clear indication of the rise of hate and fear that has conquered over many Americans in particular after the propaganda against Islamists in the past few years. Putting this topic out of political context , the latest news is that the project developers are planning to go green and achieve LEED certification. This is remarkable news in many ways. For those not familiar with the term LEED, it is "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design", according to Wikipedia it is " an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts."

A report on the dailybeast.com by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin author of Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet, indicates that the developers of Park51 , the Islamic cultural and community center, are serious about going green and achieving the LEED certification. An architectural bureau has not been assigned for the mission yet, but if they abide by what they promise, this will be the first LEED certified mosque in the U.S.