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We opted to use soaps from the (DOH) Department of Health‘s Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) that have natural ingredients in it.

With a teenage daughter, we have to be careful what we use for acne remedy because facial skin is sensitive.

At first, using the soaps on my face gave me a bit of discomfort because my skin felt itchy. I asked my SIL about it because she was the one who gave me the soaps. She said I have to read the ingredients and sure enough, ingredients just listed the fruit or vegetable extract and vegetable oil. None of those 20+ lettered hard-to-pronounce words. So, yey! Must be those extracts doing what they are supposed to do on the skin.

So far I’ve used papaya, cucumber and carrot soaps for skin moisturizing. I forgot to take photos of these.

My daughter is using calamansi soap for whitening (rolls eyes) while we still have bayabas [guava] (skin protection against bacteria), akapulko (skin defense against fungus) and labanos [radish] (skin whitening and astringent).

We are almost out of soap so we need to order more soon.

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QC Net Index

Feb 20th 2011greenbucksAround the Metro & File and data management & For Information & Philippines & Web Tools

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I thought our internet connection is pretty fast compared to others but I was wrong because last night it took me almost 4 hours to upload online a 4:02 minutes video.

Where we are, our ISP, SmartBro is the third to the last among 17 other ISPs when compared from the period of August 19, 2008 – February 18, 2011.

Here’s the link.

I sure hope that later on the speed improves. We need to look at urban clothing photos as reference for a school dance performance and mathematical operations with fractions videos as a refresher lesson.

Ye right.

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Shakey’s Bunch of Lunch

Jan 28th 2011greenbucksAround the Metro & Food and Dining & Food Friday & Me & Philippines

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Shakey’s Bunch of Lunch (or is it Bunch o’ Lunch?)

Whatever, this plate = yum!

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January 2011 Philippine Flood

Jan 14th 2011greenbucksEnvironment & For Information & Philippines

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I am devastated seeing the flooding of several provinces in the Visayas areas where the rains have been falling since December 2010 till today.

The destruction to lives and properties is overwhelming considering these are not really well-to-do provinces where a lot rely on agriculture for their livelihood.

Australia and Brazil are suffering the same sad state. The USA and Europe are blanketed by snow. Birds are falling dead from the sky. Scary yes but these weather-related have been here millions of years ago, long before men have destroyed the environment.

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