Smart ladies use garden to grow natural remedies

LUDHIANA: As others grow flowers in their garden to beautify their house and to take pleasure of a green view, a 19-year-old SarabhaNagar student had been using her garden in a smart way to make natural solutions for skin problems during monsoon. With the monsoon resulting in chapped and irritated skin, Anita Kapoor had planted plants and shrubs that help prepare natural solutions at home to fight them.
"Calendula flowers are the best for chapped and irritated skin during monsoon. My mother applies paste of the flowers on cracked heels. I apply infused oil of calendula on sunburns and sores since it is an antiseptic," she asserts.
Walking on the same lines as Anita is Richa Mehta, a housewife from Model Town, who had been experimenting with hibiscus flowers off late. "I had once heard my grandmother-in-law talk about hibiscus flowers as a great exfoliating agent for the skin and wrinkles. It also acts as an anti-dandruff product," she asserts.
Another such natural remedy lover is Anjali who claims of having found a secret to pink lips through natural rose water extract. "The ones available in the market are not pure. So this summer I experimented at home and found wonderful results. I think everyone should try this out at home," she says.
"The home made Rooafzah made from rose petals, too, is a good and healthy drink for summers," she adds.