In cosmetics, not only should we focus on our face. We also may neglect their "Beauty Areas" that are important to our overall health and beauty. Here are the common "Beauty Areas" contemporary to give proper TLC:

1. Your back - Our back is also prone to pimples or acne. Stress, oil, and dirt can cause bacne. So you also need to take care of your back as you care for your face. Here are some tips:

• When bathing, wash your back after soap and shampoo. After shampoo and conditioner, lift your hair and then take the time to wash and gently iscrub your back. If possible, use an acne-clearing wash to remove excess oil on your back.
• Many of us after bath, is allowed to wet hair stuck to the back. If you use conditioner or leave-ons potentially irritate the skin on our back. To towel dry hair immediately.
• The treatment is Important. If there are bumps or pimples on the back, using a nightly treatment with salicylic acid to dry immediately backne. The salicylic acid is also nice to exfoliate the skin.

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2. Your Eye area - If you love eye makeup such as eye shadows and eyeliners, which should provide more time caring for the eye area. Besides the thin and sensitive skin especially in the under eye area, prone to discoloration and various skin irritations. Here are some tips:

The Baking Soda or Sodium Bicarbonate is a known ingredient in the kitchen, it is used in baking, cooking and sometimes, as a cleaning agent and deodorizer in the refrigerator. But did you know that there are many benefits that baking soda is also effective in makeup?

Here are some ways to use the Baking Soda as Beauty-fying material.

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1. For Pimples and Oily Skin:

The Baking Soda has Antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties effective immediately to dry the sore pimple. Additionally a pH balancing agent Baking Soda avoiding be too release of oil into our skin.

Take 1 tbsp. Baking soda and that it mix few drops of water to make a paste, make facial scrub the paste. Massage it on the face for 2 minutes and then wash with cold water. Do this once a day for 4 days.

2. For White Teeth:

Baking Soda is known for its abrasive properties of being able yellow teeth whiteners. Mix only from toothbrush with toothpaste before use. Take a toothbrush at least 2 minutes, do it every day for 3 days. Should not be doing this too often because you may damage the natural protective tooth enamel.

3. To trim and whiten skin color:

Baking soda has the properties to eliminate a lot of dead skin cells and able to balance the pH levels of the skin. A balanced pH levels helps to have a bright and radiant skin.

Take a tablespoon of baking soda and mix in a few drops of lemon and olive oil. Mix together and make it paste. Apply to your face and make facial mask or any part of the body that need to bleach, let in the face for 5 minutes and wash with cold water. Do this 1 or 2 times per week.

4. For Oily and lifeless hair:

The frequent shampoo is damaging our hair due to some chemicals which exists and the foaming effect they have. Therefore we always advised conditioners and leave-ons. But if you bored being limp and dull hair, do Baking Soda shampoo minus the fragrance of course!

Take 1 tablespoon of baking soda and mix with 3 tablespoons of water, mix a few drops of coconut oil and then apply with wet hair. Let alone for 5 minutes and then rinse the hair with cold water, cold water to seal the moisture of the hair. This size is just right for shoulder length hair. Do this once a week.


Although stunning effects of Baking Soda in our hair, skin and teeth, should go slow in its use due to active ingredients that potentially damage the natural protection of our body.

Various forms of music in the previous lessons make us reflect on the kind of musical tradition Filipinos have in the present time and how we appreciate our own form of music. The youth of today have and entirely different musical taste from the youth of yesteryears. They have been esposed to various genre of Western music like rap, reggae and techno music. Only a few members of society can really recall and appreciate our cultural and traditional songs. Many of our tradtional practices are totally taken for grented because of the strong influence of western culture. We will recall the important cultural songs like the kumintang, kundiman, balitaw, and other folk songs. 

 Do you know any Filipino folk songs? How about traditional Filipino love songs? Listen to the composition of Nicanor Abelardo entitled "Nasaan Ka Irog." What did you feel while listening to the song? This song is a kundiman. The word kundiman is believed to have been taken from the phrase "kung hindi man" which means "though I am not." 

 Based on its origin, kundiman is a poetic song of love and heartbreak that does not only express melancholic emotions but also and intense commitment to love. This song is written in the 4 time signature and usually in a minor key. As the music progresses, the melodic line shifts to the major key which often gives the listener a light and happy mood at the end of the song. 

The performer of the kundiman expresses feelings of deep love and pain. Thus, this had been an effective way of propagating patriotism during colonial period. In the kundiman songs, the woman actually symbolizes our country and expresses the desire to gain freedom, Famouse kundiman composers include Nicanor Abelardo, Francisco Santiago, and Constancio De Guzman, to name a few.

WHAT situation in your life will trigger your love and concern for your country? When do people struggle for reform? What was the peaceful means carried on by the propagandists in the persons of Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and Graciano Lopez Jaena to show their struggle for reform?

 The nationalistic concern of the Filipinos made a mark through the writings of the propagandists who were known later as revolutionaries. The mark was seen in the literary forms which were fiecely nationalistic and mostly satirical and critical in nature. The bulk of Filipino writting was published in Diaryong Tagalog (1882), a Spanish-Tagalog newspaper, the publication which signalled the open campaign for reforms. In 1889, the La Solidaridad, an underground newspaper, became the mouthpiece of the reform movement.

 The literature of the reform movement made a tremendouse impact through Dr. Jose Rizal's two novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These novels emphasized the need for radical changes in the social, political, and religious affairs of the Country. The Literary pieces of these foremost writers Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Apolinario Mabini, and Jose Palma left a mark which would move us to have a strong love for our country. As you read these literary pieces, try to discover how the works of these writers make you love your country and your people more.

THE birth of the Philippine Commonwealth with its first president, Manuel Luis Quezon marked a change in the literature of the period, The stories m essays, poems, and plays showed social consciousness and focussed on the common Tao, the less fortunate, but hopeful individuals, and the forgotten but struggling men and women of the slums, "Go for growth" seemed to be the goal of the Filipino writers of the period. They became more skillful in the use of the English language.

 They tried out their own forms and conventions to match the mood of the times. They projected in their writings a new sense of freedom in the choice of subject matter, style, and language. The writers experimented with a great variety of literary forms and employed both classical and modern styles in expressing their liberal ideas. Soon, the literary output showed marked improvements. Filipino writers were no longer satisfied with ordinary, hackneyed, and stereotyped forms. Augusto C. Catanjal, the author of The Oil Lamp devoted time and interest to the study and production of the drama. Manuel Arguilla, who wrote The Long Vacation proved that the Filipino short story was no longer bookish, stillted, or melodramatic.

In his short story vividly showed the use of local color whose beginning was done in the period of expansion. The selections of both writers are included in this lesson to give you an idea of the quality of works during the period. You can also mirror in both selections that the writers considered also the fact that readers should grow and let the readers look into the selections in terms of its significance to their day-to-day life. Would you say that the best thing you are enjoying now is your freedom? Woul you also say that this freedom given to you on a silver platter is the greatest legacy that our forefathers fought for? Have you heard or read of stories saying that we Filipinos will always fight to preserve our freedom? The Filipino writers' view of life suffered a change when the Japanese occupied the country from 1942 to 1945.

The spontaneity of the writers in expressing their ideas was curtailed for there was no freedom of speech and of the press. All forms of writing were censored. Whatever literary output there was showed a pessimistic and bitter tone. The only contact with the outside world was done through the underground radio program called Voice of Freedom. The underground movement created spontaneous songs to sustain the guerillas' struggle for freedom. The war years saw a scarcity of poems, but the experience of war served to widen the visions and sharpen perceptions. The poets were more conscious of their environment and wrote on themes of injustice and oppression. Patriotic fervor rose to a high level. The only Filipino writers who could write freely were thos who were living in the United States. These included Carlos P. Romulo who wrote I See the Philippines Rise, I Saw the Fall of the Philippines among others and President Manuel L. Quezon whose autobiography, The Good Fight appeared after his death.