Best of Weekender: From delicious dessert soaps to an Eau de Parfum brand that uses 24 Carat gold to create luxury scents
This week, YSWeekender also brought to you stories about a platform that provides a one-stop solution to every student’s career guidance needs, and how sleep affects your health.
Cupcakes, doughnuts, eclairs, macarons, popsicles, ice lollies...the sight of Rishika Nayak Shetty’s products will set you drooling. Till you realise that they’re all soaps!
Mumbai-based online soapery specialises in a range of handmade soaps that look and smell like delicious desserts. Rich in cocoa and shea butter, SLS and paraben-free, and with skin-safe colourants and bio-degradable glitter, they come in fragrances like lilac, rose, black raspberry vanilla, spearmint, Argentina lemon, peony, and more.
Started with an investment of Rs 25,000, the brand claims to sell approximately 3,000 soaps a month.
According to Coco Chanel, perfume is the unseen, unforgettable, and ultimate accessory that defines elegance. This is what the recently-launched Rare Scents line of luxury Indian Eau de Parfums aims their wearer to experience.
Launched by the Bengaluru-based in 2021, this line is infused with 24-Carat gold and is available in five variants – Adamas, Aurum, Beryl, Corundum, and Platinum.
Education isn’t limited to textbook learning – it means guidance in all aspects of life. But is this guidance readily available for everyone? Not really.
Aware of this problem, Delhi-based Prateek Bhargava launched in 2016, a unique platform that provides career guidance through exclusive counselling and mentoring services. Since its inception, it has garnered a number of awards and recognition from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the UAE government, the National Startup Awards 2020, Education World, Entrepreneur India and other prestigious platforms.
When it comes to sleep, it is very important to consider quantity, quality, timing, and position. Sleep is linked to all health. Even in Ayurveda, sleep is among the four pillars of all health.
I see a lot of people who look towards complex treatments, protocols, and supplements before ensuring the basics of healing are in place. This includes sleep! Lack of sleep, both quantity and quality, and improper timing of sleep are linked to excess huger, blood sugar fluctuation, insulin resistance, poor nutrient absorption, yeast overgrowth, build-up of toxic waste, low melatonin, higher inflammation, intestine permeability, fatty liver, hormone imbalance, and mental health disease. The verdict is out. Focus on sleep restoration before you think of navigating more complex protocols.
Edited by Suman Singh
