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KAVITA KHOSA

BEAUTY UNBOTTLED
Timeless Ayurvedic Receipes Rituals
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Lisa Ray
Introduction
PART ONE: SKIN CARE
1. Skinspeak
2. Skin Care-An A-Beauty Perspective
3. Your Skin Dosha Questionnaire
4. Recipes, Routines and Rituals for Skin Concerns
5. Sunseekers-Sunscreen and Sun Care
6. Going Naked to Bed
7. A-Beauty Facials (Mukhabyanga)
8. Eye, Lip and Oral Care
9. Your Body Beautiful
PART TWO: KESHA VIGNAN-HAIR SCALP CARE
1. Kesha Vignan-A Modern Science and A-Beauty Perspective
2. Khalitya (Balding), Palitya (Greying), Indragupt (Alopecia)
3. Hair Mask (Shirolepa)
4. Shampoos, Rinses and Conditioners
5. Hair Smoking (Dhoopana)-An A-Beauty Blow-Dry
6. A-Beauty Hair Spa
PART THREE: WAKE UP FOR MAKE-UP
1. Girl Gone Green
2. INCI-The Holy Grail of Ingredients
3. The Face Framers-Eyes, Brows and Lips
4. Uncovering Bases-Foundations and Powders
PART FOUR: SKINFOODS FOR SUPER SKIN
1. The Tasting Table-Rasa (Taste)
2. Not-So-Intuitive Eating
3. The Source-Botanicals and Beyond
4. Making Friends with Fats-Oh, Omega!
5. Tripping on Acids
6. An Ode to Essential Oils
7. Clean Ingredients. Not!
8. Going Low Waste-Eco-Friendly Packaging, Bottling and Storage
PART FIVE: INNER BEAUTY RITUALS
1. Ancient Modalities-Unani, TCM and Acupuncture
2. Jal neti-An Ancient Nose Job!
3. Ashokarishta-A Women s Health Tonic
4. Yoga, Pranayama and A-Beauty
We Are All Flawed and Beautiful
Vegan-Friendly Options
Resource Handbook
Ayurveda Glossary
General Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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BEAUTY UNBOTTLED
Kavita Khosa is the founder and CEO of Purearth, an award-winning Ayurvedic skincare and wellness brand. A qualified Ayurvedic beauty specialist and organic cosmetics formulator, she was a Wall Street firm lawyer and director at Deutsche Bank before shedding her corporate avatar in 2011. Kavita embarked on a voyage through the high altitude Himalayas to study the ecological environment and establish partnerships with women s micro-credit and self-help groups from Kashmir to Kumaon.
Kavita has hosted her own TV show on Ayurveda and DIY beauty on Tata Sky. She has been invited to speak on beauty, Ayurveda and sustainability forums globally. An Iyengar Yoga teacher, she founded Sachyoga, a non-profit yoga school in 2003. She lives between Hong Kong and India; and has an affinity for bees, trees and loves dark chocolate with a passion.
Advance Praise for the Book
Kavita s knowledge of Ayurveda, the technicality of ingredients and her philosophic wisdom of, for example, what it means to age and the difference between routines and rituals are blended beautifully in this book. As someone largely unfamiliar with Ayurveda but who has worked in the beauty industry, [I found] the book to be an incredible encyclopaedic compilation of beauty information, learnings accumulated over the years which Kavita graciously and gracefully shares with her readers, with so much love and passion -Morgan Tan, ex-president, Shiseido, Hong Kong
Kavita is one of the most knowledgeable holistic beauty and wellness persons that I know. Her love for Ayurvedic beauty and her recipes and rituals draw from ancient wisdom, yet they are explained in such a simple and relatable way. This is what I absolutely love about this book -Deepika Mehta, yoga guru
In her book Beauty Unbottled , Kavita has very lucidly explained the basic principles of Ayurveda with reference to skin and haircare. She has mentioned all important common skin and hair disorders with easy-to-prepare recipes to cure them. Kavita has long-standing expertise in herbal beauty products as the founder of Ayurvedic skincare and wellness brand Purearth. We are sure that readers will enjoy and benefit by reading this book. We congratulate her for this endeavour and wish her much success -Prof. Emeritus Dr Subhash Ranade, chairman, International Academy of Ayurved, and Dr Sunanda Ranade, vice chairwoman, International Academy of Ayurved
For Tara, my guiding star
Foreword
Ayurveda, a system of traditional, natural medicine that originated in India more than 3000 years ago, invites us to see ourselves in deeper and more holistic ways. In my personal experience, I turned to Ayurvedic wisdom after relapsing from multiple myeloma, a malignancy of the plasma in bone marrow, in 2012. My disease motivated me to seek out experts who could guide me through the sprawling and investigative multiplicity that is Ayurveda, the science of life. In parallel with allopathic regimes prescribed by my oncologist, I learned how to mobilize my body s intelligence through prescribed Ayurvedic rituals and radical lifestyle changes, slowly embracing a new way of life and a new way of seeing. Suddenly body systems no longer appeared chaotic, inscrutable and mysterious, but in harmony with the natural order. One of my most empowering takeaways from Ayurveda was a deeper self-knowledge and relationship with myself (Hello! Good to finally meet you!) as well as the central fact of my aliveness-still breathing and thriving in even richer dimensions than before getting diagnosed with cancer.
The call to study Ayurveda on a deeper level was appealing as much as it was daunting. Instead, I continued to consult qualified doctors and experts to orient me towards the benefits this ancient, intricate system offers. But, linking past knowledge with our present is a gift.
That is Kavita s gift.
Kavita turned to Ayurvedic wisdom and indigenous knowledge years ago, while she was still working in the corporate world. After straddling stressful urban demands along with her pursuit of mindful practices and travel to the Himalayas, Kavita took the leap and immersed herself full-time into her passions: holistic wellness, organic skincare science and advocacy for women s rights. Purearth was born from the marriage of these callings and today Kavita is celebrated for setting new standards for luxurious, ethical beauty practices. In Beauty Unbottled , she shares ways to apply conscious beauty practices into our lives no matter our collective history or inheritance.
As Kavita writes, you don t have to know your doshas from the dhatus to benefit. Kavita mixes millennia-old wisdom with modern scientific ideas that are attuned to your unique constitution, honouring our differences in temperament and tendencies. Not an easy task.
This conscious beauty bible represents-in my mind-ritual as remedy for the twenty-first century by not only offering informed opinion on alleviating doshic excesses that are the root of many of our health and beauty problems, but also taking you by the hand through the scaffolding and corridors of our bodies. It s worth considering how vibrant health is interconnected with beauty, as you learn how not to mess with the acid mantle, the floral waters compatible with the pH of your skin and how to create space for peace and self-care in a way that nourishes appearance from the inside out. Skin from an Ayurvedic perspective is more than a bark wrapping on our skeleton; a sampling of skin in Ayurveda is synonymous with: charma-meaning movement (28-day cycle), astrughdhara-holds our blood, sparshanindriyam-organ of sensation and tanu-tensile and elastic.
Similarly, Kavita offers her expert insights into natural sun care, deodorants and beyond along with sensual, easy recipes that hold ancestral wisdom. Kesha Vignan is the Ayurvedic science of hair care, which Kavita modernizes with suggestions for greening your store-bought beauty ingredients with shopping guides and suggestions to audit your beauty shelves and inner beauty rituals like Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Unani, Sowa Rigpa and Siddha.
Then there are the existential questions whether to ghee or not to ghee, and making friends with fats.
Of course I m geeking out on the tools and resources in Beauty Unbottled . That s me. The recipes and rituals are timeless and enduring-they have the power to transmute. It s Kavita s mission to activate the beauty potential in all, regardless of age, background and belief.
Approach this as you would a space for self-care, a well of self-discovery, an opportunity to make the live details of life more aesthetically pleasing, more coherent, more fun. And bring a whiff of the sacred into the everyday with an emphasis on ceremony, common sense and the rhythms of natural living. Welcome to Kavita s world of slow beauty. Welcome back to yourself.
Lisa Ray
Introduction
As far as I can remember, I have felt an indescribable oneness with nature around me-in the clouds of moist earth between my toes, watching dewdrops dance on mogra flowers with childlike awe. Lazy afternoons were spent gathering leaves, roots and seeds to pound, macerate and play with. I coloured my armpit hair, curious to see the henna colour develop. I learnt that tasting the bitter juice of neem leaves could purify my blood. Getting ready for school, I was taught to chew on meswak bark to whiten my teeth as my nani (grandmother) bathed me with clay and sandalwood paste-it left my little body soft and fragrantly perfumed.
Ayurveda was a daily way of life growing up in a small town in India. Looking back, I realize how effortlessly complete and one I have always felt with the universe. Surrendering to the mystic forces shaping the warp and weft in the fabric of my consciousness-I was in tune with the rhythm of the sun, the moon and the stars.
Family, children and a career in law came in phases, teaching me to adapt to the dynamics and diplomatic dance of the urban world in a city like Hong Kong-a lesson in straddling the two polar worlds that I inhabit.
Many moons ago in 1996, I took a journey along the Friendship Highway across the Tibetan plateau-from Kathmandu to Lhasa-travelling by jeep for twelve days across the roof of the world. Witnessing the parting of clouds, I saw the north