In ancient Greece and Rome, the bath spa was a place of encounter, relaxation and sharing.

At the end of your bath, you would come away feeling refreshed and relaxed and with a feeling of serenity. Even today, the Turkish bath or hammam, which is the descendant of this practice, is still being enjoyed and savored.

What makes bathing so enjoyable? Thaddee de Slizewicz, a geographer, was fascinated with the history of the Near East and its bathing techniques. What he found out was that the combination of heat from the Turkish bath with olive oil and laurel soap resulted in this one-of-a-kind experience.

That’s when the Tade was born. Throughout the years, Tade’s tradition of respect for ecology and fair trade has stayed the same, waving together the fine oils and soaps of the Middle East and making skin care products that are 100% natural.

MyGiftee.com invites you to try these wonderful skin care products from Tade. For a luxurious experience of a hammam bath, our Hammam Gift Set offers you this experience of a lifetime.

Enjoy soaps from Mesopotamia with the Rubber Tumbler Gift Set.

For that man in your life, give him the experience of a Tade shaving soap made from olive and laurel oil with The Barber Gift Set with Candle. Once he tries this set, no other shaving cream will do!

At MyGiftee.com, we offer our customers unique gift ideas from throughout the world, taking into account the many rich and varied traditions and products the world has to offer.

Pearls have long been appreciated for their subtlety, but a number of designers now are using the gems in pieces that are anything but demure.

Even when abetted by the most advanced pearl-farming methods, an oyster’s chances of producing a high-quality South Sea pearl are no better than about 200 to 1.

At depths as great as 260 feet in the Indian Ocean off of northern Australia, divers gather these oysters while adhering to strict quotas that the Australian government has imposed to preserve the species. In the wild, a pearl forms around a parasite or a shell that becomes lodged within the oyster. The oyster reacts by secreting layers of nacre - a smooth, hard crystalline substance - around the irritant, and those layers eventually form a pearl.

On board a vessel that serves as a kind of floating laboratory, technicians implant each oyster with spherical piece of freshwater mussel shell, around which, in theory, the oyster will secret nacre. Divers then return the oysters to the sea in nets that allow the animals to feed while making them easily accessible to the technicians, who nurture and monitor them for the few years it takes to produce a gem. Every two weeks during that period, the nets are briefly brought on board to remove from the shells any marine growth, which can carry parasites or diseases that might disrupt the formation of the pearls.

Despite these efforts, on average, only about half of the oysters will produce a South Sea pearl, and less then 1 percent of those will be of the quality that Chanel uses for its new Les Perles de Chanel, a collection that includes pieces in which large South Sea pearls seemingly spring from gold and diamond spheres and sunbursts.

These pieces - as well as others designed with pearls of various colors, round or irregular-shaped Tahitian pearls, elongated or nuggetlike freshwater pearls, or domed mabe pearls - demonstrate how versatile the gems have become, however painstaking and uncertain their cultivation is.

The gifts that now entail these pearls are as follows:

• Citrine Jewelry and Wallet Gift Set (This jewelry set contains an abundance of warm colors to represent this warm month)
• Turquoise Jewelry Gift Set (This jewelry set not only contains the beautiful pearls, but its turquoise beads are as blue as the ocean from which these pearls came from) />
• Purple Necklace Gift Set (The combination of these purples in this gift is a must have)
• Quartz and Pearls Pink Gift Set (This mixture of pink quartz and swarovski crystals are perfect for the summer nights out)
• Bronze Pearls Gift Set (This whole set of deep bronze gifts will help to match that deep bronze tan from the hot summer days this June)
• Green Pearl Necklace Gift Set (This is a magnificent sea green gift set for the month of June), and lastly
• Pearls and Gems Necklace Set (This necklace entails much detail and has many summer colors in it.)

These all make great gifts for those who have birthdays in the month of June since the pearl is the birthstone for the month of June.

Every year before Father’s Day customers struggling with the dilemma of finding a gift unlike any other for the father who has everything or wants nothing:

The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.

The origin of Father’s Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908. Others say the first Father’s Day ceremony was held in Vancouver, Washington. The president of the Chicago branch of the Lions’ Club, Harry Meek, is said to have celebrated the first Father’s Day with his organization in 1915; and the day that they chose was the third Sunday in June, the closest date to Meek’s own birthday!

Regardless of when the first true Father’s Day occurred, the strongest promoter of the holiday was Mrs. Bruce John Dodd of Spokane, Washington. Mrs. Dodd felt that she had an outstanding father. He was a veteran of the Civil War. His wife had died young, and he had raised six children without their mother. In 1909, Mrs. Dodd approached her own minister and others in Spokane about having a church service dedicated to fathers on June 5, her father’s birthday. That date was too soon for her minister to prepare the service, so he spoke a few weeks later on June 19th.

From then on, the state of Washington celebrated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Children made special desserts, or visited their fathers if they lived apart. States and organizations began lobbying Congress to declare an annual Father’s Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to “establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.

Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on the third Sunday in June. When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental. Most greeting cards are whimsical so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad. Visit our Father’s Day Gift Section to find right gift for your favorite Dad.

Happy Father’s Day!
MyGiftee.com Team