sunscreen or a deep nourishing moisturiser is a must on exposed skin areas you can also use a primer which is used as a base before applying makeup as your layer of protection before playing with colours once you are done playing apply almond olive or coconut oil and use a light scrub to remove the colours once done apply a hydrating skin cream to bring back the softness in your skin also drink lots of fluids to stay hydrated from inside paushali bhattacharya skincare expert and owner of a citybased salonhow to make herbal colours at homeharsh chemicals are not an option this holi smear the colour of love with gulal extracted from flower petals and leaves in fact you might want to try making them at home with thoroughly sun dried petals add a bit of turmeric with dried petal dust of marigolds and you get yellow the colour of spring with heena and bael patta dust you will get green gulal and to get red mix dried hibiscus petals and rose not only such colours are tender on human skin organic gulal is easy to wash as wellabout 15 years ago professor sidhartha dutta of jadavpur university chemical engineering department came up with a process to make herbal colours in the laboratory from 2019 three of his students formed a startup and have started producing herbal colours with the same formula while professor dutta made four colours arunava patra one of his students has added five more arunava said it is fairly easy to make herbal colours at home and all it takes is a bit of practice to make it perfecttear the petal into small pieces and put them into a grinder add some wateronce done pour the ground petals in a clean cloth and squeeze out the extractapply alum stone in the extract to change the shadeonce you get the desired shade mix the extract with talcum powder or even cornflowerdry it and your gulal is readytraditional holi treats get a healthy makeoverholi celebration calls for sweet treats the options can be many you can make besan laddoo badam ka halwa gond laddoo and so on evidently all these lovely trays contain a certain amount of sugar and hence to make them healthier you need to put in a bit of effort green warrior and organic farmer lata bajoria insists on making treats at home the moment you make the treats at home they become a lot healthier i would suggest you use organic ingredients that are free from chemicals and preservatives i am lucky that i have a huge garden and i grow almost all my ingredients while making these treats i replace ghee with almond oil now i extract almond oil one can buy organic almond old from market also replace refined sugar with honey jaggery and dates she told usmeanwhile home chef nandini nandi is busy curating healthier options for her holi menu i insist people make thandai with badam milk or