Select Natural Beauty or through technology?

There is always a purpose behind the tradition of body treatments, like massage that are given to infants from birth. Caring for the body and physical beauty indeed be thorough, can not be instant, and needs to be done throughout the ages. Cultural traditions of Indonesia has even taught this body treatments with various beautification rites. Now, still needs to be preserved cultural heritage, coupled with the development of technology, research-based beauty products.

Founder Mustika Ratu, BRA Mooryati Soedibyo, say, beauty treatment has been practiced since childhood in the tradition, and has become part of cultural heritage. Since the baby, the child's body has been treated regularly with a massage or in the Javanese tradition called medicine. A teenager, beauty and body treatments also need to be adjusted to the stage. So, when adult, beauty is born more naturally with the body which maintained since a young age. The tradition of caring for beauty before marriage and after it is still running. This is not just a form of preservation of cultural heritage, but also recognized the benefits for women's health. In fact, in the old age, beauty also needs to be maintained.

Even so, beauty care, either from outside or from within the body, not always rely on a tradition passed down through generations, but also have to adjust the times.

"Nursing beauty of the body is no longer a concoction of spices and cooking. Already era of beauty products developed based on research and technology with the same efficacy and even add value. Beauty treatments are now made in the form of extracts utilizing research and technology," said on the sidelines Mooryati product demos in between treatments to couples at his residence, the Hall Sasono Wiwoho, Menteng, Jakarta, Saturday (13/11/2010).

According Mooryati, beauty products, despite use of technology, should continue to use organic materials based on the heritage and tradition of natural products from Indonesia.

"What is different is the end result, in the form of extract. But it has the same benefits and of the same natural resources," he continued.

From a variety of beauty products or treatments offered in the market, the choice back to you. You can choose to mixing-matching tradition and technology. You can also use all natural products, such as herbal medicine or herbal decoction of carrying that keeps the body fresh, or herbal extracts in the form of a pill with the same properties that can be consumed at any time.

What about you? Product options such as what is believed to be capable of caring for the beauty and freshness of the body? Naturally or with the sophistication of technology?