Avoid the rash chemicals used in colors, save money spent to buy a sprayer, and reduce the waste this Holi with wise use of the things available in your home and garden.
Make Your own Pichkari
Inside of throwing away old plastic water bottles, save them for making Holi pichkari for this first empty the bottle preferable of thicker plastic. Make a small hole in its cap and fit the bicycle spoke nut in it. Decorate the bottle with stickers and fill it with colored water. put on the cap tight, press the bottle and see how far the water can go.
Play with Organic colors
Make natural colors and be safe from those harsh chemicals used in Synthetic colors.Follow these easy tips to make organic colors at home.
RED:
Boil peels of pomegranate fruit in water till it turns red.The dried peel of pomegranate can be crushed and mixed with Flour or red sandalwood powder can be mixed with crushed hibiscus or rose flowers.
Yellow:
Turmeric and gram flour are an important part of a homemade face pack you can mix both to create the color yellow. You can substitute gram flour with talcum power or fuller"s earth too. You can also dry flowers like marigold or chrysanthemums and crush them to a fine powder then mix these powder with gram flour.
Saffron:
Boil or soak the flowers, known as the flame of the forest (Butea monosperma) overnight to obtain a nice smelling or angle color. You can also crush these dried test flowers to a power and then mix with sandalwood powder. It smells great gives a very smooth touch.
Green:
You can use henna powder, mixed with any suitable flour to attain a lovely green shade. Mehendi only leaves behind it color when it wet and dry mehendi can be brushed off very easily.
Pink:
For a wet pink, slice a few beetroots and soak them overnight in water or boil for a few minutes.
Black :
you can boil goosebaries in an iron contains for a few minutes and then keep it aside for a while. Dilute it with water and use. It also works as a conditioner.
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