Think Calm

Stress is a powerful enemy of beauty. To fight it, you will have to learn to relax. To free both mind and body, take time out and allow yourself small and intermittent moments of calm and serenity.

Your skin is emotive

For a long time people thought the skin was simply a kind of cover protecting the body from the outside world. How wrong they were. The skin and the brain are in fact constantly interconnected. It follows that if you feel calm your skin will look good.

Discover Japanese bathing

Pamper your body the Japanese way. In the Empire of the Sun bathing is considered an important ritual for de-stressing and beautifying. Run very hot water (keep it at a constant temperature of 38°C/100°F), adding salts or perfumedْْْْْ effervescent bath stones. Try cedar: reminiscent of the smell of the traditional wooden bathtubs.

Play geishas with purifying kaolin masks (white clay). To soothe the skin, succumb to Japanese green-tea creams or for a long-lasting silkiness, ginko biloba.