Health Beauty and Fragrances

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Health Products

Himalaya Baby Care: Diaper Rash Cream
Almond Oil with Vitamin A which fights infections.
Aloe Vera moisturizes and soothes the skin.
Mild, soothing and effective.
Price:Rs.47

Himalaya Baby Care: Baby Lotion
Olive Oil enriched with Vitamin E, ensures healthy and lustrous skin Yashtimandhu to sooth baby’s tender skin.
Price: Rs. 107

Himalaya Baby Care: Baby Cream
Specially forumulated to protect baby’s dry cheeks, tender nose , rubbed elbows and Knees.
Price: Rs. 78

Pain Balm
It contains Mint and Indian Wintergreen.
It provided quick relief from headaches and body aches.
Price:10g: Rs. 26

Beauty / Fragrances

Biotique Face Freshener- Honey Water
A soothing skin freshener with Honey, Aleovera and Manjishta and extracts of Nutgalis,Carrot and Red Sandalwood. It helps to tighten pores.
Price: 120 ml:Rs. 213

Biotique Face Freshener –Cucumber Water
Very effective cooling antiseptic freshener containing extracts of Coriander, Nutgalis,Cucumber and Berberry. It also contains Peppermint oil and it helps to tighten pores.
Price: 120 ml:Rs. 214

Biotique Skin Vitaliser-Dandelion
A rare combinationof naturally occurring nutrients. Rich in Vitamin E and minerals like Iron, Phosphorus, Iodine,Potash and Sulphur. It also contains Nutmeg oil that helps to stimulate the skin and ease wrinkles. Regular use ensures a youthful complexion.
Price: 35ml:Rs.211

Rasasi Perfume: Romance: Eau De Parfum
Fresh and sparkling top notes that lead into a sumptuous bouquet of rose and jasmine flowers, harmoniously combined with the fruity, woody powdery notes fthe dry down.
Price:Rs. 800

Rasasi Perfume: Chastity: Eau De Parfum
A clean and transparent fragrance that gives a lot of freshness enlivened with green fruity top notes. The rundown gives a lasting character and power to the base softened by music.
Price: Rs. 1050

Rasasi Perfume: Secret: Eau De Parfum
"Secret" is a reflection of woman's mysterious moods and the sensuousness of the variety of her emotions. It is personification of her enchanted and undisclosed feelings of her hidden passion.

Price: 913

Jewelry

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Jewelry

INTRODUCTION

Jewelry, ornaments of precious metal, sometimes set with gems, worn since ancient times by people of all cultures for personal adornment, as badges of social or official rank, and as emblems of religious, social, or political affiliation. In its widest sense the term jewelry encompasses objects made of many kinds of organic and inorganic materials such as hair, feathers, leather, scales, bones, shells, wood, ceramics, metals, and minerals. However, the term properly refers to mounted precious or semiprecious stones and to objects made of valuable or attractive metals such as gold, silver, platinum, copper, and brass. Jewelry has been worn on the head in the form of crowns, diadems, tiaras, aigrettes, hairpins, hat ornaments, earrings, nose rings, earplugs, and lip rings; on the neck in the form of collars, necklaces, and pendants; on the breast in the form of pectorals, brooches, clasps, and buttons; on the limbs in the form of rings, bracelets, armlets, and anklets; and at the waist in the form of belts and girdles, with pendants such as chatelaines, scent cases, and rosaries. Current knowledge of ancient jewelry is derived largely from the preservation of personal objects in tombs. Information about the jewelry of cultures that did not bury valuables with the dead comes from portraits in surviving painting and sculpture. See Diamond; Gemstones.

20TH-CENTURY JEWELRY

About 1900 in Paris, this revival of the goldsmith's art was carried further by the jewelers of the art nouveau movement, led by René Lalique. Ignoring historic styles, he took his themes from plants, birds, and insect forms. Emphasizing design more than the costliness of material, he used enamel, ivory, glass, and horn as often as semiprecious stones and gems. The art nouveau style was introduced in the United States by Louis Comfort Tiffany, one of the first important American jewelry designers.

Modern jewelry reflects important changes in fashions and technology. After World War I (1914-1918), the vogue for short hair for women resulted in the disappearance of formerly popular jeweled combs and hair ornaments. In the same period jeweled vanity cases, wristwatches, and cigarette cases came into style. Strong, lightweight metals such as platinum, iridium, and palladium permitted unconventional settings for gemstones, and new casting methods resulted in more sculptural designs and a greater use of different metallic textures and finishes. As in the Renaissance, painters and sculptors again designed jewels. The works of French painter Georges Braque and American sculptor Alexander Calder combine appropriateness with wearability. The jewels of Spanish painter Salvador Dalí were more extravagant and were more representative of design for its own sake than as a function of the jewel to be worn. Although a great deal of modern jewelry is designed and made by large firms, the tradition of the artist-craftsman is strong in Scandinavia and the United States, where silver, semiprecious stones, hammered copper, and other less costly materials are commonly used. Plastics are often employed in inexpensive jewelry. Arts-and-crafts shops produce a vast selection of abstract and naturalistic designs in rings, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and brooches. Although jewelry in the 19th and early 20th centuries was worn primarily by women, in the late 20th century some men were wearing jewelry such as neck chains, bracelets, and earrings.

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ASIAN JEWELRY

In Asia, techniques and styles of jewelry have continued in unbroken traditions from remote antiquity to the present day. Indian jewelry—including gold fillets and earrings, bead necklaces, and metal and pottery bangles—was produced in the Indus Valley before 1500 bc. Later, medieval sculpture depicts men and women wearing heavy necklaces, bracelets, girdles, and earrings. Today Indian goldsmiths, expert in the techniques also common in the West, produce enameled, soldered, granulated, and filigreed work of great refinement. Some of the best work, especially silver filigree, is produced in Cuttack, Kashmīr, and Bengal. Fine historic examples of Indian work shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum include a crescent-shaped gold brooch with granulated gold balls and pendants and gold and enameled turban ornaments from Jaipur, Rajputana. Other examples, especially from the south of India, bear in relief subjects from Hindu mythology.

Illuminated manuscripts indicate that in Persia both men and women wore rich jewelry—head-gear, necklaces, and earrings. The characteristic material was enameled gold; the main center for this work was Shīrāz. The same technique is often employed today in the making of the charms and amulets common in Iran.

Silver was used in Chinese traditional jewelry more often than gold and was gilded to prevent tarnishing. Silver and gold were frequently enameled in blue, a favorite color, and often decorated with blue kingfisher feathers. Jade was the most valued among precious stones. Under the Chinese Empire, jeweled emblems such as the buttons on the hats of mandarins indicated rank, and extremely elaborate silver and gold filigree headdresses were worn by women of high position. Dragons, phoenixes, and many Buddhist symbols were used as decoration or charms on necklaces, rings, and bracelets. Outstanding examples of Chinese jewelry are exhibited at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The gold and silver jewelry of Nepal, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and Thailand is related to Indian and Chinese work and is also outstanding. The Japanese have excelled in lacquer and ivory ornaments such as combs, buttons, and purse toggles worn at the waist. See Lacquerwork; Ivory Carving.