In the United States, the beauty industry reached $62.46 billion in sales in 2016 (“Revenue,” 2015). A large portion of the beauty industry sales is anti-aging beauty products (“Anti-aging Products,” 2009). There are approximately 48 million middle-aged women between 30 and 55 years of age (Census.Gov, 2011). The most used social media site for middle-aged women is Facebook, which is currently ...

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In all ages, “philosophers and artists have proposed definitions of Beauty; thanks to their testimonies can thus reconstruct a history of aesthetic ideas over the time. But other things were with the idea of Ugly. Most often, Ugly was defined in opposition to the Beauty, but almost never have been dedicated ample studies, but some hints in parenthesis or some marginal notes” as U. Eco asserts (...

Satisfying indoor air quality in public environments has become essential cities. In the present study, PM2.5, CO2, NO2, SO2, nicotine, and BTEX have been assessed 12 categories of places. The highest average concentrations SO2 were observed waterpipe cafés (233, 29.6, 5.1 µg/m3), whereas lowest found health clubs hospitals, respectively. Moreover, concentration varied from 69.5 µg/m3 (passenge...

Beauty—as the saying goes—is in the eye of the beholder, though this relativistic insight has not stopped humans from spending more than 6,000 years striving to artificially enhance their looks. From ancient Egypt and Sumer until today, the quest for beauty is recorded in our literature, music and art. Even today, many women and men devote considerable amounts of time and money to selecting and...