Wellness Read

October 25, 2014 03:33 pm | Updated October 18, 2016 12:49 pm IST

Beauty At Your Fingertips: Kitchen remedies for Your Skin & Hair; Dr. Nirmala Shetty.

Beauty At Your Fingertips: Kitchen remedies for Your Skin & Hair; Dr. Nirmala Shetty.

Feed them well

Dipping into the ingredients found in kitchens — herbs and fruits, vegetables and spices — Dr. Shetty offers eco-friendly concoctions for every skin and hair problem, be it rosacea or dark circles, hair fall or premature greying. There are chapters devoted to male beauty, age-specific potions, and kitchen solutions for anxious grooms and brides. As a bonus, there’s a ready reckoner of common natural ingredients and the secrets they hold.

Beauty At Your Fingertips: Kitchen remedies for Your Skin & Hair; Dr. Nirmala Shetty, Westland, Rs.295

Feed them well

Macrobiotic specialist Tarika Ahuja offers easy-to-prepare recipes — like brown rice smoothie, rice-and-chickpea burger, cashew cauliflower soup, apple walnut muffin — to improve your children’s hearts and kidneys and make their mouths water as well.

In this book, she also gives advice on how to fight allergies and read the signs of vitamin and mineral deficiency.

Beautiful Children; Tarika Ahuja, Collins, Rs.299

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