HOLI, the much awaited festival of colors is on its way to engage the excited Indians. As we just love to splurge each other with the vibrant and vivid colors, this is second most celebrated festival after Deepawali. Who can avoid those water balloon fights with neighbors and people passing by on roads? The sweet gujiyas and tasty snack called sev are made at every house with a unique taste of their own, are two musts for everyone to try and relish. These are some things which constitute the entirety of Holi as a festival.
But there are also some things which need to be avoided, and one of them being the popular synthetic colors, which have some reasons and much, much valid reasons why we Holi fanatics should stay away from their use on this coming 23rd of March.
1.ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
When everyone on planet earth is being made to understand the importance of environment as a whole, then why use some synthetic colors just to destroy something which should be conserved. Mainly because these artificial colors include non-biodegradable substances which cannot be composed within the environment easily, their avoidance is a must.
2.SKIN CANCER
Synthetic colors are mischievously made up of some very harmful alkaline ingredients like lead, pieces of glass, chemicals etc. Each one of them dangerously adverse for skin and raises chances of skin cancer to a certain extent.
3.TEMPORARY BLINDNESS
The world is beautiful to witness and when you’re granted with the gift of vision why damage it by using harmful and toxic synthetic colors while playing holi.
4.DRY SKIN
Dry condition is the worst of all skin types. Nothing stays on, everything peels off, and it itches on movements and what not. Synthetic colors can easily make way for such type of skin texture, so it’s better to avoid them than to regret later.
5.RASHES/ITCHING
Presence of high amount of, silica, chromium, lead and alkaline material in these synthetic colors can also result in rashes.
6.ALLERGIES
Industrial dyes which are mixed with oxidized materials can quite easily be the cause of any sort of skin allergies. In order to not be a victim of any such allergies, let us try and avoid using synthetic colors.
7.DAMAGE TO HAIR
Hair is one special feature of your personality and vital enough for others to perceive you and your dynamism impressively. Dark and long-lasting synthetic colors include a range of metallic oxides which can harshly spoil your hair and you might end up with noticeable hair loss.
8.ASTHMA
People suffering from any kind of lung contagion should definitely avoid dry synthetic colors as they can aggravate the health problem. Also dry colors can incite severe asthma attacks and bronchitis.
