– By Soujanya Padikkal & Sheetal Kabra Maintaining a clean house is an important factor for a healthy life. A variety of home care products like detergents, sprays, bleach, air fresheners, toilet cleaners, disinfectants etc are used by us to help keep our house clean and hygienic. But are they actually taking care of our […]
Life is all about the choices we make and I believe that holds true even for the products we use . Right from the tooth paste we use in the morning to the cleaning products we use to keep germs at bay,these choices impact not just our health but that of the environment too. It […]
Reetha (Sapindus Mukorossi), also known as soapnut, soapberry, and washnut, is a dried fruit that comes from a tea bearing the same name. Also called as Arishtak in Ayurveda, Reetha is one of the most famous and versatile herbs in Ayurveda. It is a deciduous tree that is widely grown in tropical countries like India, […]
by Sheetal Kabra It took a huge global outrage and protest against racial injustice for two large global players like Loreal and Unilever to drop words like “whitening” , “fair” and “light” from their skin products. Johnson & Johnson has gone ahead and decided to stop selling its skin whitening creams under its Neutrogena and […]
My cell phone buzzed. I responded. “Hello?” “Hello.” It was a lady’s voice at the other end. “May I speak to Dr. Kabra please?” “This is Dr. Kabra.” “Dr.S.G.Kabra?” “Yes.” “Doctor Sahib, I am Mrs. Solanki from Bhatinda.” “Yes, Mrs. Solanki.” “Can I speak to you for a few minutes?” “About what?” “About your article […]
We use soap every day and cleaning is the initial step with regards to dealing with your personal care. When you clean your body or skin properly then the rest follows. We all know why handmade natural soaps are superior to commercial soaps which are detergents in camouflage. Yet there are few myths prevailing about […]
by Sheetal Kabra We at Earthy Sapo, make soaps the traditional way. What exactly does the term traditional soap making mean? Soap, by definition, is the result of a chemical reaction between an acid (fats & oils of plant or animal origin) & an alkali (lye or sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide). This chemical reaction […]
We have been asked several times about the pH value of handmade soaps. We tell them only one thing – the truth & fact that the PH of handmade soaps is mostly in the range of 8-10. But this doesn’t convince them, on the contrary, it alarms them! “Oh! Is PH close to 10? It […]
Earthy Sapo is very clear about why we should use a natural soap over commercial soaps. But we keep getting this question about which is better – natural bath powders or natural bathing soap? After all, soap cannot be made without lye (sodium hydroxide), so, isn’t a natural bath powders any day now the ideal […]