Holi Skin Care Tips: Protect Your Skin and Hair From Colours
The most vibrant festival of the year, Holi, is not far away. It’s time now to prepare for the festival of colours. Holi is the Hindu spring festival. It indicates the end of winter and signifies the victory of good over evil. Holi celebration typically includes colours, water guns, water balloons, and coloured water. But, is the worry of skin and hair care keeping you away from this celebration? Are you hesitating to enjoy? Not any longer, we have compiled a set of handy and useful tips for your hair and skin care, so that you can go out and enjoy Holi to the fullest.
Colours of Holi may cause damage to your skin and hair. Chemicals used in the colours may cause rashes, acne etc. problems. So it is important that you take care of your skin and hair before you go to play Holi.
Top 10 Holi Skin and Hair Care Tips to Keep in Mind
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Pre-Holi Skin and Hair Care
Apply a thick layer of almond oil on the hair and moisturizer on the face, neck, hands and other body parts. This will make your hair and skin greasy and prevent the colours from settling deep in them.
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Post-Holi Skin and Hair Care
Make a paste of besan, curd, neem, and honey. Gently apply on the face, and keep it for twenty minutes. Then wash it off with lukewarm water to remove the colours. Use mild herbal shampoo on the hair to remove colour.
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Tips to Protect Your Hair From the Damage Caused by Holi Colours?
Make a paste of lemon juice, Curd and honey. Apply it on hair starting from the roots to the tips. Keep it for half an hour and wash it with lukewarm water using herbal shampoo. Prefer the use of organic hair colour made from flower petals, especially for hair. Avoid oil or turpentine-based colour for hair.
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Moisturizing
Apply a good amount of moisturizer to your body. It will nourish your skin and also act as a protective barrier between the skin and the colours. Herbal Aloe vera gel can be used as a natural moisturizer to soothe and hydrate the skin.
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Sunscreen
Apply sunscreen generously. The more amount of time you spend in the sun, the greater the chances of tanning. Prefer sunscreen with SPF 50, so that you are sure about not getting tanned in the sun.
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Oiling
Massage your scalp with lukewarm oil. Oils that are good to protect your scalp against harmful chemicals are Coconut oil, Almond oil, Rosemary Oil, and Jojoba Oil. Oil your hair for half an hour before you begin to play with colours.