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Celebrate Holi the Earth-Friendly Way

Holi is one of the most exciting festivals celebrated with a lot of zeal and joy everywhere to mark the win of good over evil. Holi is celebrated wholeheartedly in towns and cities, with different traditions. In Vrindavan, Holi is played with fresh flowers whereas in Barsana & Nandgaon, Holi is celebrated with wooden sticks where ladies from Barsana beat the men from Nandgaon, as is traditionally depicted in the mythological folklores of Radha & Krishna.

Celebrations for Holi start a day before on the eve of Purnima. According to the Hindu calendar, the festival is celebrated in the month of Phalguna. The festival of colours is celebrated in different ways across different states of the nation as Dol Purnima, Rangwali Holi, Dhulandi, Dhuleti, Manjal Kuli, Yaosang, Ukuli, Jajiri, Shigmo, or Phagwah.

Holi is celebrated as one of the biggest festivals in India, and the festival is incomplete without assorted delicacies like sweet gujiya, thandai, dry fruits ladoos and more.

If you want to celebrate an earth-friendly Holi with your friends and loved ones, you’re at the right place. Keep reading to know how you can plan the most earth-friendly Holi party with organic gulal, health-friendly sweets & best Holi dress to drench in the colours of love & happiness!

Organising Earth-friendly Holi Party

First things first, start with choosing the right venue for your party. Select a space that is open, and big enough for playing as well as having your food in between the fun and games. If you like, you can plan a theme for your party such as Bollywood style Holi and let the music be all Holi songs from the films.

For colours, it's a definite no-no to the chemical-laden colours that can cause severe damage to your skin. We recommend that you use only organic Holi colours. There are several benefits of playing with organic Holi color as they are safe for the skin, are made with kitchen ingredients like cornstarch and flower pigments, mixed with moisturising agents that not only feel soft on the skin but also keep it hydrated and moisturised. Organic gulal comes in a variety of bright, happy colours like pink, blue, yellow, red and green that look great for the photos as well.

Why Choose Organic Gulaal

Regular Holi colours are made up of hazardous chemicals that are toxic to the eyes and skin. Chemicals used in colours like mercury, asbestos, silica, mica, and lead are hazardous and damage vital organs, cause allergies and can even lead to asthma. They may also affect both the respiratory system and nervous systems, make skin sensitive to light and cause redness, chafing and broken skin.

On the other hand, organic or herbal gulal is made with clean, skin-friendly ingredients from your kitchen or the garden, made in smaller quantities and thus is safe for use. Moreover, it is pet-friendly and can be used while playing Holi with young children with sensitive skin. Organic gulaal stocked up at Amala Earth is fresh, fragrant and simply beautiful!

In the olden days, herbal color for Holi was prepared at home at least a month before the festivities began. Different types of herbs and flowers were procured, washed and dried before they were transformed into ground powder and mixed with other oils for fragrance and pigment.

This process, however lengthy, actually produces the safest colours to play Holi with every year. Flowers & kitchen essentials like tesu, marigolds, hibiscus, roses, beetroot, turmeric and more kitchen items are excellent ingredients for Holi colours that are safe for skin & hair.

Essence of Holi & its Traditions

Holi has a deep-rooted significance in Indian mythology and depicts the Raas Leela, symbolic of Krishna & Radha’s eternal love story. Also, a day before Holi, Holika Dahan is performed by lighting a bonfire and performing rituals to embark on positivity and acknowledge the win of good over evil. This evening is considered auspicious and pooja is performed around the bonfire.

So, to celebrate Holika Dahan, we need to prepare with pooja essentials, and there are a lot of options available at Amala Earth. Here are some of them:

Pooja Thali & Pooja Flower Baskets

An essential for every pooja ceremony is the lamp or brass diya. As an ode to the power and purity of Agni or the goddess of fire, it is considered a good conductor of positive vibrations that attract abundance and dispel negativity. It becomes necessary to keep a brass diya on the plate.

Choose eco-friendly holi pooja essentials like brass pooja thali that include brass roli holders, agarbatti holders, diyas, etc. For fragrant flowers, a pooja flower basket can be used as it comes with beautiful designs etched on its surface.

Pooja Diya

An essential for every pooja ceremony is the lamp or brass diya. As an ode to the power and purity of Agni or the goddess of fire, it is considered a good conductor of positive vibrations that attract abundance and dispel negativity. It becomes necessary to keep a brass diya on the plate.

Festive Food Palette for Holi

Who is not excited about the amazing delicacies that one gets to savour at the festival of colours, Holi? The delicacies of holi food range from sweet gujiya that we wait for all year in anticipation of its delicious taste, to the thandai powder that we mix and hoard upon to beat the heat of summer; from sweet jaggery and dry fruit laddoo, to coconut and gulkand laddoos. Everything becomes tastier with the flavoursome palette of organic food products at the Holi party.

How to prepare Gujiya

Gujiya is one of the most popular north Indian sweet delicacies made around Holi celebrations. It has a crisp and flaky outer layer that is filled with khoya (milk solids), dry fruits & nuts. It is deep-fried and sweet in flavour, and can have different fillings of organic food products like mawa and cardamom as well.

First, you have to prepare the dough for the outer layer properly. It is prepared by mixing whole wheat flour, whole-purpose flour and a pinch of salt. Then, melt and mix some organic cow’s ghee into the flour mixture and mix with a spoon or your fingers till it starts forming crumbs-texture. Once it is done, start adding some water and kneading the dough. Following this, prepare the filling with nuts, cardamom and khoya.

Start rolling the dough in small sizes, fill in the mawa and shape it properly, and fry the same to make crispy gujiya! We bet you cannot have enough of these and your gifts won’t know where to stop.

Holi Fashion Essentials

Remember those days when we kept faded, old t-shirts safely in our wardrobe as the next Holi attire? Those days are gone now, and we diligently look forward to wearing Holi dress as aesthetically pleasing even on Holi, to acknowledge our social media with celebratory pictures! From white cotton kurta to a rainbow bandana, paired with edgy black sunglasses, and open-toe footwear, Holi is now a fun fiesta of colours, tasty festive food and cotton and linen Holi dress for women, and pure white and beige kurtas for men. These present an all-white canvas ready to be splashed with organic Holi colours all over!

Self Care Dos & Don'ts

Apart from the chosen attire, make sure you prepare your skin and your hair for playing a safe and joyous Holi. There are a few tips that you can follow to prepare for Holi:

Apply oil all over your body and hair properly so that the colour doesn’t seep into your skin and damage the skin. For safety against the sun, do not skip applying sunscreen on your face and body.
Use sunglasses to protect your eyes from harmful dust, colour and water.
Tightly braid your hair into pleats to avoid hair breakage. If you have long hair, cover it with a bandana to protect it from sun damage, and extra colour gulal in the roots.
Try to wear full sleeved clothes since you will be out in the sun preparing for tanning.
When you’re eating while playing, do not consume too much. Keep control of your count of gujiya and thandai glasses. Otherwise, you will feel heavy and full without taking the celebration too far.
After playing Holi, massage your hair with a little bit of oil again, to dissolve the colour powders if any/ Post hair oil, wash the hair with a light hair cleanser and condition it properly. After the hair wash, always use a hair mask to hydrate, nourish and moisturise the hair again. You can do a DIY hair mask with curd, olive oil or methi, banana and amla as ingredients for deep conditioning.

If your skin is too sensitive, make sure you don't use any chemical products or skin-exfoliating peels & scrubs for a few days after Holi since the skin can get reactive.

Holi Party Gifting Ideas

Last, but not least, surprise your beloved guests at the Holi party with amazing Holi gift hampers. Choose unique Holi hampers with assorted dry fruit boxes that your loved ones can enjoy at home without worrying about their fitness and health. You can also give them an extra dose of delicious thandai powder to have at home with packs of soft, organic gulal. Holi gift hampers means a lot when given with a lot of warmth and communicates the fun, frolic and love between one another that Holi depicts. Holi also requires the celebration to be safe, hygienic and most importantly eco-friendly to restore the environment as soon as possible.

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