Category Archives: Health & Wellness

SCRUBS TO PREVENT ACNE? CHOOSE WISELY

By Sheetal Kabra Life offers us a new day and a new challenge each day. One such challenge is having an acne or blemish free skin! Isn’t it? How many of us stand in front of the mirror first thing in the morning, just to check if our facial skin is clear from any acne […]

SKIN PIGMENTATION & ITS DISORDERS

By Soujanya Padikkal Birds display exotic colors. Sea animals enjoy a colorful life. Mammals exhibit a range of colors from black to grey to brown to white and all possible shades in between. And so do humans. But across this range of diverse colors also exists pigmentary disorders that messes up the uniformity of skin […]

UFF! …DANDR(UFF)!

By Soujanya Padikkal As I comb my hair, to my dismay I notice the white flakes that have fallen on my clothes. Dandruff! Dandruff! Dandruff! I can’t seem to get a break with it. But what is it, why does it occur and despite being so omnipresent, why isn’t there still a magic product to […]

OILY SKIN & ITS NEED FOR A MOISTURIZER

By Sheetal Kabra Customer: “Sheetal, do you have a face cream or a gel for oily skin?” Me – “Sorry no.” Customer- “No?? Please make one. I am desperately looking for an all-natural cream or moisturizer for my oily skin.” Me – “ You said you have an oily skin, so why do you need […]

Are you dye/dy (ing) your hair?

By Soujanya Padikkal News of a family wedding and my mother pesters me to buy her a hair color to cover her graying hair. Humans have dyed their hair for thousands of years, experimenting with formulas to achieve a new hair colour. Auburn/Red/Green/Violet/Purple or streaks of different colors, you might have seen them all. The […]

Hair Oiling – A Self Caring Routine

By Soujanya Paddikal & Sheetal Kabra One of the fondest memories of my childhood, but at the time irritable, is that of my mother insisting on me regularly applying oil to my hair. It was a practice we were supposed to follow without demur. Years later, neither I nor my sister would continue this practice, […]

Hair Loss – A Common Saga

By Soujanya Padikkal & Sheetal Kabra Hair has always been a beauty standard for men and women. Be it mythology, fairy tales or songs, hair has always been a prized possession irrespective of gender and don’t we all wish for the perfect hair! Unfortunately, pre-mature baldness and or hair fall on a daily basis has […]

Are your home cleaning products keeping you healthy or are slowly killing you?

– 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 […]

THE KARMA IN OUR PERSONAL AND HOME CARE PRODUCT CHOICES

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 […]

Don’t try and fit into any set beauty standards, create your own!

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 […]