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Veganize & Detox Your Beautycase

Pretty & Pure

In the Organic Beauty Department, love for niche products is a top priority. Anyone who likes to pamper themselves with luxurious cosmetics and values pure ingredients and cruelty-free products will find what they are looking for here. The range includes vegan make-up brushes, mineral make-up in all shades, intensively nourishing facial oils, exotically scented soaps and chic beauty cases made from organic cotton. All brands at Pretty & Pure are carefully selected by us and meet strict criteria. This finally means no more tedious reading through the ingredients, no unpleasant skin reactions and honest advice from two experienced beauty professionals.

Pretty & Pure is not just a store, but also a spa, cosmetics studio and make-up studio. Additional make-up workshops, skin care advice or “Detox your Beautycase” courses allow customers to have their make-up done, be pampered and receive advice in an intimate setting and relaxed atmosphere.

Here is our vegan kitchen tip

Veganize & Detox Your Beautycase

Do you want to choose healthier products, but don’t know where to start?

Are you tired of spending money on things you’re not sure will deliver what they promise?

Are you tired of spending hours studying ingredient lists when shopping?

Bring your own products and together we will analyze the ingredients and sort out the unhealthy products. You will learn about healthy and ecological alternatives and where these products are available. You will learn what to look out for when choosing deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, make-up etc. and receive valuable tips to make it easier for you to switch from conventional cosmetics to natural cosmetics

By the way, here are some interesting details about the managing directors

Sarah Semrau

I have been working as a freelance make-up artist for editorial shoots, fashion shows, music videos, commercials etc. for nine years.(click here for my online portfolio)

In recent years, my lifestyle has changed more and more in a healthier, fairer and more ecological direction. After changing my diet and personal care and cosmetic products, it was a natural process for me to also question my work and the associated products. So I decided to put together a completely green, healthy and cruelty-free kit. In my search for suitable products, I noticed that the range of high-quality natural and organic cosmetics, hair and care products on offer here is still very limited. The idea for Pretty & Pure was born.

Nadine Schäppi

As a trained natural cosmetician and founder of Holistic Beauty skin care & more, I am particularly pleased to have met Sarah Semrau and to have been running our joint business with her since October 1st. Thanks to several years of experience in the field of natural cosmetics and holistic skin care, I can offer you support in choosing your skin care products and make general recommendations on beauty care and closely related matters such as nutrition and stress management. Through my initial training as a Dipl. As a qualified nurse and with several years of professional experience in postpartum and infant care, expectant and new moms also benefit from a visit to us – whether because of the large selection of safe products for young and old or because of the treatments and workshops specially tailored to this special phase of life. Speaking of treatments: holistic facials are my specialty and the aim is to leave you feeling not only beautifully cared for, but also balanced and rested. That’s why we attach great importance to a stylish wellness ambience with candlelight, preheated loungers, flower teas and fine fragrances, and each facial includes a relaxing massage of the shoulders, neck and décolleté.

www.prettyandpure.ch

Art against food waste

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How do we want to live? Valentin Beck (Wettingen) and Adrian Rast (St. Gallen) addressed this question in their work “Ein-Mach-Ende”, with which they completed their Bachelor’s degree in Art & Mediation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design this summer. Their answer was an expansive work of art: for months, the two collected expired but still edible food from supermarket containers and cooked it using traditional preservation methods. Around 2,000 jars – including fennel chutney, caramel marronis, prickly pear jelly and much more – were stacked in a room made of disposable pallets and distributed to the public at the diploma exhibition. In return, visitors were invited to discuss the issue of food waste with the two initiators.

Valentin Beck and Adrian Rast have collected and preserved more food from waste and from nature especially for the “Kunst 14 Zürich” trade fair in Zurich. Visitors can purchase the preserving jars on site and are invited to discuss them with the two artists. “We are looking forward to showing our work at the art fair and hope that it will open up exciting discussions,” says Adrian Rast. And Valentin Beck adds: “It will be very interesting and we are very curious to see whether and how the acquisition of our art by the public will lead to a negotiation about values.”

Art 14 Zurich” will take place from October 30 to November 2 in the ABB-Halle 550, Ricarda- Huch-Strasse, in Zurich-Oerlikon. The BEWE Foundation’s exhibition stand is stand C5.

Taking a close look at organic food

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A comparison of ORGANIC and NON-ORGANIC. The insight into genetically modified food, crystallization images from the research of Soyana’s LifevisionLab.

Mr. A. W. Dänzer, owner of the Soyana company, has studied and photographed the beauty of organic food for years.

In 1996, the author created his own laboratory (LifevisionLab) to visualize the power of food in food. His research has yielded results: the crystallization method presented reveals the inner order of organic food in beautiful images that speak for themselves. After the Nobel Prize winner
Ilya Prigogine
we are dependent on constantly taking order in order to be able to live and develop. The well-known physician, psychotherapist and author Dr. Ruediger Dahlke (e.g. PEACE FOOD) writes in the foreword to Mr. A. W. Dänzer:

“Information and order in food – both closely linked to the light that is spread – are the key to a long and healthy life. Both can be tasted, but not scientifically measured. This book helps decisively here by making quality visible and wonderfully showing the order in food: Organic food differs visually from conventional industrial food.”

The vernissage today, Tuesday, October 21 at 6:30 pm in the Volkhaus (Blauer Saal) is practically fully booked, maybe there are still a few places available if you come in time. Participants in the book vernissage will receive a voucher for a small free organic aperitif and snack in the Vegelateria restaurant after the vernissage. The author will be present and will report on his experiences based on this research.

THE INVISIBLE POWER IN FOOD
Verlag Bewusstes Dasein, Schlieren-Zurich, 2014,
272 pages, 753 illustrations, large format 280x280mm, thread binding,
€ 25.80 / CHF 29.80 ISBN 978-3-905158-15-1

www.bio-nichtbio.info

www.vegelateria.ch

It’s vegan, baby

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The latest vegan restaurant in Zurich is called ” ELLE’N’BELLE – It’s vegan, baby” and is run by sisters Sibel and Elif Erisik.

In this vegan food temple, vegan lifestyle is celebrated in a cool atmosphere, paired with a strong dash of rock’n’roll in a fresh, inspiring and, above all, delicious way. Guests of all ages and culinary preferences can enjoy the purely plant-based cuisine. And they are whisked away into the unique world of Elle’n’Belle: One in which restaurant, take-away with vegan delicacies, place to linger, music bar-lounge and events merge together. Restaurant Elle’n’Belle is THE new, exciting and delicious way to dine in Zurich’s gastronomic landscape! The vegan kitchen particularly likes the slogan: It’s vegan, baby!

We think the generosity of this restaurant is fantastic, it has so much space that a gigantic children’s corner has been set up! Our tip for coffee and cake time: take over the children’s corner and enjoy a delicious vegan Black Forest cake and coffee or tea!

The two sisters and Ellenbell are already famous in Zurich for their Daddy Cool Döner.

Restaurant “Elle’n’Belle – It’s vegan, baby!”

Limmatstrasse 118, 8005 Zurich.

OPENING HOURS

Tue-Sat: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.

Sun & Mon: Closed

TABLE RESERVATION

info@ellenbelle.ch

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Cooking sound

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Koch(neben)geräusche – a collective sound improvisation with epicurean output

What does the structure-borne sound of a grated carrot sound like? A knife used to peel a potato? And our wrists in doing all these things? What does a pan heating up sound like?

We will try to harmonize the cooking process and the sounds of the manufacturing process by wiring the cooking utensils with body microphones. Every cooking utensil is also a sound instrument. Every act of cooking is also a musical act.

Chopping, grating, stirring rhythm and intensity, activity and pause form the sound material for the improvisation. The raw sounds are sampled by Simon Berz.

How does cooking sound?
What does an auditory stew taste like?
Does the listening experience flow into the cooking product?
And can the menu be answered later?

Kochklang Friday, October 3, 19h Elisabethenstr. 14a

From

kitchenarrität

many cooks celebrate the porridge

(Common) Cooking as a medium: the basic cultural technique as a starting point for a wide variety of topics: Whether as a performative act, as a process of idea generation, as a catalyst for memories or simply as a translation of art or knowledge into an edible format: the possibilities are countless. Because food is created, the second part is not short on indulgence.