Beauty Unbottled by Kavita Khosa
Can one make sunscreen from saffron? Can hemp oil help heal acne? How does madder root help cure hyperpigmentation? Beauty Unbottled is a unique DIY guide on how to use herbs and plants to turn your kitchen into a beauty lab. Learn how to treat hair loss, frizz, dandruff and premature greying with powerful Ayurvedic kitchen herbs.
Create your own masks, moisturizers, serums and shampoos with superfoods like neem, tulsi, jasmine and sandalwood-herbs that are revered in Ayurveda. Explore the alchemy of Ayurveda and its long-lost, forgotten beauty secrets with simple step-by-step skin and hair recipes (with vegan options) in this definitive guide and self-help book.
This book will also guide you to read and understand labels, have a balanced diet for a healthy body and choose ingredients that are super effective yet gentle on you and mother earth.
Kavita Khosa, founder of the award-winning skincare brand Purearth, brings to this book her years of experience in Ayurveda and expertise as an organic cosmetic science formulator.
Beauty Unbottled debunks urban beauty myths, drawing upon scientific research and time-honoured classic Ayurvedic texts. Rooted in Ayurveda, this book invites you to celebrate the skin you are in!
Chemical Khichdi by Aparna Pramal Raje
This is the story of Aparna Piramal Raje, author, working woman, mother of two and bipolar. Chemical Khichdi is part memoir and part self-help guide. The book provides a pathway for anyone with a mental health condition and the family, friends, colleagues, and medical professionals that love and care for them.
Empathetic, candid and accessible, it outlines ‘seven therapies’ that have enabled Aparna to ‘hack’ her mental health and find equilibrium over the years and shows how you or someone you know can also do the same.
3. Principles of Organnic Farming
The International Federation for Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) definition of organic farming is based on:
1: The Principle of Health
2: The Principle of Ecology
3: The Principle of Fairness
4: The Principle of Care.
4. Farmer’s of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by Franklin Hiram King
More than 40,000 years, Asian Farmer’s worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the lands fertility and without applying artificial fertilizers! How they accomplished this miraculous feat is described by author Franklin Hiram King, a former official of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
King traveled to Asia in the early 1900s to learn how farmers in China, Korea, and Japan were able to achieve successful harvests century after century without exhausting the soil-one of their most valuable natural resources. This book is the result of his extraordinary mission. A fascinating study of waste-free methods of cultivation, this work reveals the secrets of Ancient Farming methods and, at the same time, Chronicles the travels and observations of a remarkable man. A well- trained observer who studied the actual conditions of life among agricultural people’s, King provides intriguing glimpses of Japan, China, Manchuria, and Korea; customs of the common people; the utilization of waste methods of irrigation, reforestation, and land reclamation, the cultivation of rice, silk, and tea and related topics.
This book represents an invaluable resource for Organic Gardeners, farmers, and conservationists. It remains. One of the richest sources of information about peasant agriculture and one of the pioneer books on agriculture.
Good article about Organic farming.