Pharmacy
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Absurd photo request leaves CVS employee stunned: ‘That’s an invasion of my privacy'
TikTok users were mostly shocked that people can see and judge the photos they print.
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Apothecaries and Perfumeries: Yahoo Beauty’s Journey Through Cuba
Perfume bottles from Habana 1791. (Photo: Alexandra Perron)
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Santa Maria Novella: Inside the World’s Longest-Standing Apothecary
While a saunter through Sephora or Space NK does feel like a spiritual experience for many of us, these beauty shops don’t compare to Officina Profumo – Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, a 600-year-old Florentine pharmacy founded by talented Dominican monks. The beauty mecca is set up next to the monk’s monastery, and prides itself on using many of the same techniques and recipes developed hundreds of years ago.
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Healing New Orleans: Apothecary Spots in the Creole City
New Orleans has always been a site of healing — even before the French Mississippi Company officially founded the Louisiana city in 1718. 1300 years before Europeans colonized the swampy land, the Mississippi culture, a mound-building Native American civilization, thrived in the bayou, using the herbs of the land for healing rituals linked to the cycles of agriculture. After les Français and los Españoles moved in with their European-trained pharmacists and brought in African slaves who had th