FAIRNESS MAYHEM

                The mania of fitness and fairness has become an epidemic nowadays such that it has set a new trend in lifestyle, allowing many enterprises and companies to feature their fairness and fitness products through media. The wide range of cosmetics that are available, competes with one and another in order to outdo each other. In this mad race of competition, the R&D centers for these products come up with solutions that would impose drastic and immediate effects. “Affordable Price” – this term is not at all applicable when it comes to beauty. Beauty-loving people may bargain with a vegetable vendor, but they don’t do this to a cosmetic company. The reason is that they (similar to that of the cosmetic competition) tend to compete with their friends and relatives in order to outdo each other in casting their physique and outlook. I have also read that a famous celebrity spends nearly 70Lakhs per annum for beauty making.

                I came across a fact in a ‘Health’ journal by ‘THE WEEK’ that some skin-care products contain mercury and hence to avoid such harmful products. The article also exhorted not to use products which don’t reveal its ingredients. The serious implications of mercury-based creams are really really harmful, it said. But why do people are so obsessed with cosmetics? When it comes to beauty we always do quote examples of certain ancient characters. But did all these ancient people use cosmetics? It is obviously a “No!” Nature provides us with a wide range of beauty products which we are unaware. We normally don’t tend to use ‘aloe Vera’ straight away from the plant. But if we see a picture of aloevera in a cosmetic cream, immediately we would buy it under the pretext of “using natural products”. But still, it is only a cosmetic which contains some traces of aloe Vera. You can see the cream of milk is readily available in households which has a drastic effect and an effective role to be played in ‘anti- ageing’. The fruit extracts like lime or orange (when used in a limited quantity with dilution) has an effect of bleach and gives a natural glow. Cucumber, tomato, cabbage and papaya has good roles to be played in beauty-making. The problem is that we want immediate results from easy procedures. If anything can be achieved so easily, then why are we still humans?? Each and everything needs time, patience and procedure to cast itself. Immediate effects result only in stereotyped beauty. But on the other hand all of these natural products may take time, but in the end, they are the ones who will be imposing everlasting perpetual beauty. First of all examine what and all the nature has provided to you in this environment. Then, with complete knowledge about it, try to make use of it to the fullest. This is applicable both to fitness as well as fairness.