Ayurveda Kohl Kajal Eyeliner DIY Recipe

Create Your Very Own Ayurvedic Source For Stunning Eyes…

Kohl has been used over the millennium by ancient cultures for healthy treatment and protection of the soft tissue around the eyes by both Indian and Egyptian cultures. “…Kohl has been worn traditionally… (ca. 3100 BCE) by Egyptian queens and noble women…Kohl was originally used as protection against eye ailments. There was also a belief that darkening around the eyes would protect one from the harsh rays of the sun…” (Source) Did you know, however , that it is very possible to create your own?

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None of the kajals today are herbal and most certainly not the non smudging ones. So here I got an idea to make a completely herbal kajal from home. This is the oldest recipe of kajal since from the ancient times written in ayurveda (well my grandfather read them in Vedas). Here is the procedure below!
Things You Will Need:
A copper plate with upward edges
A silver box (proper silver not steel)
Pure castor oil
Cotton threads made directly out of cotton which you use in pooja
Ghee
Spoon
A bronze deepam
camphor
Procedure:
1. As shown in the figure, fill the castor oil around 100 ml into the bronze deepam. You can see the cotton deepam I used in the second pic. Take 3 or 4 and use this to light.
2. By using two tumblers, support the copper plate on top of the deepam and light it. (As shown in the first pic of this post!) Make sure the plate is a bit more in height than the deepam.
3. If you lie down and observe you can see the fire lapping at the copper plate making it blacker and blacker. Wait till it consumes the whole oil. Be careful as it will be very hot.
4. Now you see the ash collected in the plate and in the deepam? Collect as much as you can into a mixing plastic bowl.
5. Using little ghee, mix this into a paste. Add camphor sparsely. Don’t use more than 4 to 5 smallest beads the size of sugar crystals.
6. Transfer it into a silver box