Our friend is Japanese and uses many natural elements to decorate her home. That may seem to us, we love to put flowers also in our homes, but the Japaneses goes further and use finer branches, flowers, or charcoal not only for its beauty but also for their properties to heal the body and spirit.

In Japan we have a client, the hotel chain Superhotel who purchases our pillows and also uses charcolive® to maintain a healthy environment, enhancing the beauty of the of olive pit charcoal with original designs. You can see how charcolive® has been placed in the aisle or in the “onsen” (thermal baths). They have replaced the traditional sand of Zen gardens by charcolive®. properties to heal the body and spirit.

We propose a small “exchange”, if you send us a photo with a beautifully designed with charcolive we give you one charcolive® PiES. Your shoes will not smell badly anymore.

1.  The bedroom, or at least the immediate vicinity of the bed should be reserved for sleep. You can not use that same space to work or perform another type of activity.
2. The resting area has to be a comfortable place with a suitable temperature, good ventilation, and definitely no unnecessary noise or lights.
3. The bed must be comfortable with a firm mattress and straight but soft enough to fit the curves of the spine. It’s as bad a mattress too hard as one too soft, in which the column “floats” without proper support.
4. The pillow must have a suitable height for each person, usually having between 6 and 14 cm. It is important to be firm but comfortable pillow, allowing the neck muscles relax.
5. The correct position is sleeping on your back, placing the whole column on the mattress. Sleeping face down can negatively affect the curvature of the back as you  need to rotate the neck to breathe properly. If sleeping on your side, you should use the arm under the pillow to fill the gap left by the shoulder.
6. It is recommended going to bed always at the same time.
7. Dinner should be light, avoiding coffee, tea or chocolate. It is also advisable not to smoke or drink alcohol.
8. Make some kind of relaxation exercise lying on the bed. Start with your arms, legs and trunk, ending with exercises of neck and head on the pillow.
9. In the case you use to sleep nap, not exceed 30 minutes.
10. Above all, do moderate exercise throughout the day, preferably in the morning but not before sleep.

Following these advices you have no excuse to sleep.

This is thanks to its macroporous structure with a pore density of 100 pores per mm2, connected together, thus making charcolive ® in a product with very good absorption capacity.

It is especially effective with ammonia, found in the urine of cats, andhydrogen sulfide, a component of rotten eggs. At the same time, it generates negative ions which is very beneficial for health, and help in preserving food fresh for longer. How?

Absorbing a molecule called ethylene that emit both fruits and vegetables in their maturation process. So, favors these foods stay fresh longer.

We invite you to view these training videos in which all this is clearly explained.

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In addition to the toxicity of the products mentioned are described allergies caused by both natural and synthetic latex.

(http://tattoo.about.com/od/disease/a/latexallergies.htm)
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0091674989904570)

It is very important when buying a pillow, take into account these factors. And above all to think that if we find latex or memory foam products very cheap, may be the producer is using harmful chemicals just to cut costs regardless of our health. Even if we chose a synthetic pillow is good to choose prestige brands. If they sell memory foam pillows or latex twice the price than products of dubious origins, is not because they’re more ambitious, but because their products and manufacturing processes take into account the health of their workers and customers.

charcolive s.l. has chosen to make their pillows with all-natural products that are not harmful to health and have very little power allergen. Follow our advice, buy natural product and if you decide to purchase synthetic, think rightly and do not save money taking the risk of meeting a health problem.

This has been studied since time immemorial, as it was felt that dreams were a form ofcontact with the gods, as well as the best way to predict future events.

Today’s dreams are not as deified, but remain a door to a mysterious and fascinating world where the rules of reality have no place. In dreams anything is possible, hopes, ambitions, desires, fears and fantasies, and seem to be the way in which the subconscious considers, classifies, processes, and even solves problems that concern us in real life.

However, every dream is unique in that every human being has their own experiences and emotions, connecting with their own reality. Therefore, when interpreting dreams, it should be put in the personal context of each one, because if not, there is a risk of unifying global meanings as an individuals.

That is, a dream about the same topic, dreamed up by two different people need not have the same meaning as each may have focused on their own experience, will always will be different.

For this reason, we do not make a division of the recurring themes in dreams and explain its meaning, because that way we would not be taking into account the actual personal situation of each person, but we encourage you to research on your own dreams. You could find its relationship with your real life and teach you about your own being.

Two weeks ago I discovered that the  MINI pillow  can be used for more than sleep. I give the “recipe”.

Lie on your back, knees bent and feet flat on the mattress (must be hard and firm, if not is better a mat on the floor). Place the pillow on your sacrum. The vertebrae of the lumbar region are high on the pillow. Slowly lower your back to the mattress, so that the vertebrae in position are curved towards the ground. You can stay there for a few minutes, while breathing slowly and deeply. I repeat the exercise 5 times every night.

The most important thing is doing slowly raising or lowering your spine vertebra by vertebra.

Watch out! If you’re in the attack of low back pain, do not make it. You must rest for 24 hours and follow the advice of your doctor. This exercise is to prevent the attack.

Thera are a wide variety of positions, as each individual is different, but experts have been identified 6 major groups: 

1. FETAL POSITION: So called because it resembles the position of the baby inside the mother. It is the most common view (41% of the population), and those who sleep in this position try to pretend a strong personality, but in reality is their sensitivity that makes bow down at night in their shell. This form of sleep do they need a pillow thicker than average, to avoid neck pain.

 2. THE TRUNK: They sleep on one side, dropping the arms close to their body. They represent 15% of the population. This position is taken by open and sociable people who are easily integrated into different groups, which stand out for their leadership. In return that trust and faith in others can make them naive. Scientists recommend this group to change position at rest in order to facilitate blood flow throughout the body.

 3. NOSTALGIC: The position is very similar to “the trunk”, except that the arms are extended forward, at right angles to the body, so their personalities are also quite similar. They are sociable and open, but with a somewhat critical perception of reality, which sometimes makes them seem a little cynical. This position is taken by the 13% of the population. At night you should change position to avoid cardiovascular problems and a gnashing of teeth.

 4. SOLDIER: It is an unusual position (8% of the population) in which they sleep on their back, with their back straight and arms at their sides. They are so shy and reserved people that do not like crowded places full of noise and fuss. His daily life is guided by the order and rules. This position can lead to respiratory problems, causing loud snoring.

 5. FREE FALL: Neither is very common (7% of the population). They sleep on their stomach with arms extended around the pillow and the head side. People who sleep in this position tend to be very restless and dynamic, and that nervousness makes they find hard to sleep. The lopsided position of the head can cause neck problems.

 6. STARFISH. It is the less common position of all (5% of the population) and of those who sleep on their backs, arms and legs stretched in any direction. People sleeping in  this position are well noted for their generosity and altruism, though not like to be the protagonists.

 We recommend the charcolive® SUPREME pillow for positions 1, 2 and 3 because they  sleep on their side and needs a thicker pillow and charcolive® NATURA pillow for positions 4,5 and 6, because they sleep on their back or on their stomach and needs a thinner pillow.

So that by 2050 would become the main source of energy, ahead of coal, oil or natural gas, which currently represent nearly 85% of consumed energy .

Biomass has been gaining strength due in part to the wide variety of products that generate it. From the natural biomass, that is low energy efficiency but readily available such as wood, to biomass from energy crops such as cereals. And of course the wet and dry waste biomass, within which would be the generated by the olive pits. This wet and dry waste biomass above all have the blessing of producers, government agencies and environmental organizations.

Considering these aspects, we would like to point out to you some advantages of using biomass as fuel in heating and hot water:

a) Easy to get, thanks to the variety of crops that can generate biomass.
b) Ecological and environmentally friendly.
c) Effective and durable as it keeps longer residual heat.
d) Cheaper than current fuels.

After reading this, we hope you feel encouraged to get more information on this type of heating.

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