Raise the bar for Mother Earth

Model and actor Divya Menon, 29, tells us a little story about how soap was discovered and not invented. The story goes that women in the Babylonian era would wash their clothes on riverbanks and noticed that bubbles were making their clothes cleaner. This was actually a chemical reaction that occurred because the animal fat (from slaughtered animals) that washed down the stream would mix with sodium hydroxide rocks. Today, Menon is almost six months into her new venture, SkinCandy — a range of homemade, handcrafted beauty and bath products that generate zero waste, are 100 per cent vegan and biodegradable, right till packaging. The soaps, scrubs, and lotions she makes consist of essential oils and food- grade products, which she then assembles together using the cold process and finally leaves it out to air-cure.