Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Use This To Protect Your Skin On This Holi



Holi is highly up-rated festival among all ages, teens, children, young and seniors. We all are planning Holi even before it arrives. All children are planning about the party, venue and menu, whereas, all mothers are highly worried about the bad effects of chemicalHoli colors, Balloon-rashes and bad effects of all these on hair and skin. It takes a long time to remove these colors from hair and skin.

These colors are made with poisonous and harmful chemicals and they penetrate our skin and hair roots. They damage our skin and hair and cause hair-fall, dryness, baldness, pimples, rashes, patches on skin and many more. Some people had to visit doctors for treatment and it takes months to recover from the damage caused by these chemicals.

But, here are some tips to save yourself from the damage caused by these colors. You can apply this all over to protect from these chemical colors. You can apply pure coconut oil on hair and skin all over. This is rich source of Vitamin E and A and is very nutritious for skin. It forms a coating on hair and skin, and as a result it doesn’t absorb anything which is applied on hair and skin and as soon as you apply soap while bathing after playing Holi, the colors are easily washed off with the oil leaving your skin fresh and healthier.

These natural oils and herbs are very beneficial for skin and thus are very helpful in saving you from several pollutants penetrating skin and hair roots. You can also use pure mustard oil also for the same purpose. Though mustard oil is bitter on skin, but it is very nutritious for hair and skin as it cleanses pores. After bathing you can reapply oil on skin to re-nourish and moisturize it.

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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Holi: The Festival of Forgiveness



Holi, is celebrated every year on Poonam (Full-Moon Day). One day before Holi, is celebrated as victory of “Good” over “Evil”. It also signifies the arrival of Spring and end of winters. This festival is celebrated to rebond with old friends and forgive each other. It symbolizes a fresh and new start of healthy relationships with colors, laughter and playful manner.

In villages our farmers burn Holika and submit the new harvest of wheat to goddess Holika as the thanksgiving of good harvest. This “Holika Dahan” is done one night before “dhulandi”. Holika was the sister of demon King Hiranyakashyap. Her sister was blessed that if she wears a shawl given by gods, she will not be burned or affected by fire. Prahalad was his son and was an ardent follower of Lord Vishnu. The king hated his son so he tells his sister Hollika to take Prahalad in her arms and sit on a fire bed to punish Prahalad. But as soon as Hiranyakashyap sets fire the holy shawl was taken away by wind and the Hollika dies due to burning and Prahalad was left unaffected and saved by Lord Vishnu. Then Lord Vishnu takes the avatar of “Narsimha” and kills Hiranyakashyap.

 Since then, Hollika is burnt every year and next day is celebrated as Holi, the festival of colors, forgiveness and victory of Good over Evil. Dhulandi is widely celebrated in India and Nepal. But it is also celebrated in United States, Canada, Jamaica and several other countries with Indian population.

On this day, people roam in groups and carry drums and other musical instruments to dance and play Holi with everyone in the city.  People visit their enemies today and play colors with them.
Children throw colored water filled balloons and play with colors. They spray colored water on each other with water-guns commonly known as “Pichkari”. Several snacks are prepared at home for the celebration. People eat Gujiya, Chakli and khopra barfi etc. we all should celebrate this festival forgiving and forgetting all grudges and disputes.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

Holi: The Festival of Love And Colors




Holi is celebrated all over India as the festival of colors, love, togetherness and forgiveness. People all over the country have already started planning for the welcome of this festival. Several designs and varieties of pichkari and colors are displayed all over the market. The whole market is decorated with pichkari’s and gulaal (color) packets. Nowadays, herbal colors are highly trending in the market to attract buyers.

Eco-Friendly Colors

Eco-friendly colors are highly tending nowadays; these are easily washable and don’t harm the skin. They are made by natural flowers extracts instead of previously used harmful chemical colors. These chemical colors were very harmful on skin and caused several skin allergies. Some sensitive people suffered from several skin and other related problems due ti these chemical colors.

Eco-Friendly Gulaal

In olden days, people played dry Holi with “Gulaal”, these are powdered form of colors and are very easy on skin. They don’t leave any stains and thus are termed as eco-friendly also. But, today even these “Gulaal” are highly adulterated and it is difficult to identify the chemical or organic gulaal without using it. Chemical gulaal is highly irritable and it causes redness and swelling on the skin. Sometimes, rubbing dry gulaal causes scars and rashes on sensitive skins.

Pichkaris or Sprayers

Pichkaris or sprayers are attractive sprayers to throw or spray colored water on each other. These are available in variety of colors and patterns all over the market. These are easily available online also. All children love to play Holi with these pichkari’s.


Colored Balloons

Small rubber balloons filled with color water are very prevalent on the Holi-day. People throw these water filled balloons on each other. They are available in variety of sizes and colors. Nowadays even special tools are available to fill more than 30-40 balloons at a single time.

These festivals are celebrated to enhance love, togetherness and bonding between all of us. We should try to celebrate festivals in a healthy way to encourage this basic logic behind the celebration of this festival. “I wish you all a happy and healthy Holi of love and togetherness”

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