Stains Are Good, But Not On Your Body!

Living in a diverse nation has blessed us with lot of joy and festivals. These occasions are meant for outmost fun and laughter with our closed ones. Holi is one such festival in our country. The festival of color has its own cultural importance of good winning over bad. The festival is celebrated all over the country by putting colors on each other and wishing for each other's goodwill. The most colorful festival demands some prior holi skin & hair care routines before smearing ourselves with all the colors. Not everyone has the access and knowledge of using chemical free herbal colors. But the lifestyle of people doesn’t allow to roam around with the holi stains on as it looks embarrassing and awkward. 

So one needs to be prepared in advance to enjoy the festival fully, without worrying about their skin healths. The most common concern of people after covering themselves with colors is how to remove holi color from the face and how to take care of hair. The chemically treated colors are very harmful as well as rigid in nature and don’t come off easily. In this article, we’ll be discussing the most common queries of people on the onset of the festival i.e, how to remove holi color from the face and how to take care of hair.

Pre Holi Skin & Hair Care:

In order to resolve how to remove holi color from the face, one can follow certain tips in advance:

• Covering our bodies with long comfortable clothes as much as possible before exposing ourselves to colors.
• Applying oils, preferably coconut oil, mustard oil or olive oil throughout the body so that holi colors don’t come in direct contact with our skins.
• Exposed body parts need to be coated more than once as they are more prone to chemicals present in holi colors.

Just like our skin, our hair needs some prior care too. Some of the tips on how to take care of hair from holi colors are:

• Covering our hair with shower caps or clothes to prevent them from all those harsh chemicals.
• Layering our hair with oils like coconut oil or mustard oil, so that it becomes easier to wash the colors off.

Once these tips are followed in advance half of our concern about how to remove holi color from the face and how to take care of hair can be solved. But that doesn’t guarantee total protection. The chemicals present in those colors can be very harsh and can make our skins very dry and sensitive. Symptoms like rashes, irritation, and itchiness may occur if proper care is not taken after dripping ourselves with colors. 

Post Holi Skin and Haircare:

Some of the ways on how to remove holi color from the face and care for our skins after playing holi are:

• Washing yourself thoroughly with cold water before applying any kind of cleansers.
• Avoiding harsh soaps and scrubs to vigorously rub our skin in order to remove colours as it can affect the skin adversely.
• Using mild or homemade cleansers to wash off the colours. If you have already applied oil earlier, this would not be very hectic.
• In case of rigid colours, mild scrubs can be used.
• Moisturizing the skin with a nourishing moisturizer afterwards is a must as all those chemicals and cleansers can make your skin really dehydrated.

In order to take care of hair, we can follow certain methods like:

• Washing off all the extra colour from the hair with cold  water.
• Using a mild sulphate and paraben free shampoo to clean the hair.
• Applying a nourishing hair conditioner and serums after washing hair in order to restore its hydration.

DIY’s are the best chemical free option to opt in order to take care of your skin and hair from all those harsh holi colours. These are not only chemical free, affordable and eco friendly but also can be customized according to your skin types. Making a nourishing face mask or shampoo and conditioner will neither cause a pinch in your pockets nor will take alot of time.

Some of the affordable DIY options for how to remove holi colour from the face are given below:

• Using a mixture of sugar, honey and lemon as a face scrub. This wonderful face mask act as a scrub as well as a moisturizer in order to give an instant result. Sugar acts as a natural scrub and lemon acts as a bleaching agent to remove any kind of unwanted colours. Honey is an excellent moisturizer.
• A mixture of multani mitti(Fuller’s Earth) and besan ( Gram flour) taken in equal proportion acts as an great cleanser. All the DIY’s are customizable according to one’s skin type. You can add anything that suits your skin and have a  wonderful self pampering time.
• Aloe vera and lemon can also be used as a face pack as well as a moisturizer to get an instant result.
• Rice flour acts as an excellent scrub. You can mix it with rose water and gently scrub off the colors.
• Another great cleanser is milk mixed with orange peel powder as it increases the collagen production within the skin to prevent any discolouration. You can replace milk with curd too.
• To remove holi colour from the face, a simple mixture of curd, turmeric and besan can also give a commendable results.

How to Take Care of Hair:

• You can use a herbal shampoo to wash off the colour. The best herbal shampoo you can make at home is by soaking reetha, shikakai and amla overnight and grinding it to a paste. This can remove all the unwanted dirt as well as excess colour from your hair.
• In order to retain the hydration in the hair, some deep conditioning hair mask can be applied to it. A mixture of almond oil, curd and baking soda works as an wonderful hair mask. You can leave the mask for 40-45 minutes and can apply coconut oil as the roots for more moisture boost. Shampoo afterwards.
• Soak methi overnight and grind to a paste. Apply it to the hair and leave it for half and hour. Wash it off with a mild shampoo.
• Honey and cinnamon powder also wonderfully nourishes the hair.

Always wash your hair and face with cold water to remove holi colour as hot water can strip off further nourishment. Avoid any kind of chemical treatments for your skin and hair and give it a break to let it breathe for few days. Be consistent with your favourite DIY for some days and your worry about how to remove holi colour from the face and how to take care of hair will be solved forever.