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My 4 Best Beauty Tips, From Around the Globe 2017

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If you are looking for some changes this year in your beauty routine, I have a few suggestions and tips I have received while traveling around the world this year. My top 4 tips that are now my favorite go-tos that I have learned along the way from friends from various cultures are:   1. Rose Water (or Fresh Herbal Teas) I first fell in love with rose tea while I was in China and just about every person I met, they were drinking some type of flower tea! I remember one of my Chinese friend's made a cup one day and it smelled so good. At the grocery stores, they were easily available in Beijing and that was when I started to experiment with rose water and noticed the great benefits it can do for your skin! Maybe I got a little too carried away and was not only drinking rose water but bathing with it too. It reduces acne when using as an ingredient in a facial cleanser or as a face toner. Softens, refreshes, and relieves dry skin after bathing with it. An aromathe...

Friends Visit Peace Corps Panama Community!

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Finally I had some visitors from the USA!! My former college roomies came to visit my community and experience Panama! Let's just say that I forgot about some the interesting things about Panama and campo life that I have become accustomed to, like the diablo rojos (buses with crazy designs), 3AM rooster wake up call, and cold showers/bathing in the river. Also, they enjoyed the variety of fruits and vegetables that are easily available in our gardens or found in the jungle especially coconuts, pipas, and bananas.   Iguana! A monkey!