While playing Holi might be fun for us, but our skin doesn’t enjoy it as much as we do. Why? That’s because the chemical colors we are using these days are not best friends with our skin. No Worries! Below are some ideas that you can play Holi, and your skin will be happy too.
Holi is meant to be celebrated to welcome the Spring season, which means praising the natural beauty, colors, and blooming flowers around us. But nowadays, we have started using metallic and neon colors because they are cheap and are readily available in the market.
But we don’t understand that how harmful these metallic, vibrant shades are for our skin, hair, and eyes. These synthetic colors contain industrial dyes, engine oil, diesel, acids, glass powder, and alkalis, most toxins. They can lead to problems like itchiness, rashes, eye allergies, temporary or permanent blindness, etc.
Not only do these colors harm us, but they are destroying the environment also. Synthetic colors are mostly the cause of increasing water pollution in the world. The factories which produce these colors dump the waste in rivers nearby, and people use that water to grow vegetation – and toxins enter the food, all the water habitat and river also dies.
This year, you should try to use natural and organic colors that are soft and not harmful to your skin. Here are some DIY suggestions on how you can buy or even make color by yourself:-
- Dried rose petal can be used to make pink or various other colors also, as there are twenty-four shades of roses like white, yellow, red, pink, orange, peach, etc.
- Turmeric powder is the best and easy way to make yellow color at home. Turmeric has antibiotic qualities, so you don’t have to worry about your skin getting itchy or anything.
- For orange and green color, you can try saffron and henna leaves, respectively. Soak them in water overnight, and you will get beautiful colors to play with within the morning.
- You can also use spinach or coriander leaves to make the green color. Make a smooth paste, and mix in the water. Tada! You have an organic green color with you in minutes.
- There are various options for making shades of blue. There is the blue jacaranda, iris, blue hydrangea, bellflower, blue hibiscus, etc.
Also, many Ayurvedic and cosmetic companies manufacture natural, herbal colors during Holi; and the good thing is various agencies certify that Indian companies produce verifiably organic products.
Let’s promise to play a safe and organic Holi this year so that not only us but everyone around us, including the environment, can also be safe, cheerful, and pleasant. Happy Holi!
