A well-known bath powder that is associated with aromatic therapy and is available in the southern part of India is named as Sunni Pindi. This particular bathing powder works as a wonderful scrub and exfoliate. Once you keep on using it, your skin will be really soft and smooth. This practice of bathing with Sunni Pindi is really very popular among the people staying in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Green gram powder is the main ingredient with which this bath powder is made. The green gram powder is formed with the combination of rice flour and chick pea. There are other ingredients such as fenugreek leaves, basil leaves, Turmeric, gooseberries, neem leaves and almond meal are present in this Sunni Pindi preparation.
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Homemade natural bath powder “Sunni Pindi” making
There are many scrubs available out in the market but no product can beat the “Sunni Pandi” one of the traditional methods used by people in Andhra Pradesh to cleanse exfoliate and make skin softer. Till date, in many traditional families this scrub is used as an alternate to soap.
Sunni Pindi – The natural Scrub
Ingredients required making
- Green gram flour: 250 grams
- Horsegram – 250 grams
- Chick peas (kabuli channa ) – 250 grams
- Freshly ground Turmeric powder – 25 grams
- Multani mitti powder – 200 grams
- Rose petal powder – 30grams
- Orange peel powder – 30 grams
- Neem leaf powder – 30 grams
- Suganda kachooralu also known as Curcuma zedoary, or, Shati in Sanskrit – 30 grams
- Rice flour – 30 grams
- Wheat flour – 30 grams
- Tulasi powder – 10 grams
- 4-5 almonds
- Table spoon fenugreek seeds for stickiness
The products mentioned above can be used as per availability (that’s is the beauty of Sunni Pindi) as they are used to give a pleasant fragrance to the mixture and the combination works wonders to smooth out the blemishes, rough and dead skills off the skin. The products are generally available at any Ayurvedic, herbal or general grocery stores.
- The green gram powder + Horse Gram powder + chick peas Powder + together removes dirt, applied oil and extra water contents from the body
- Fenugreek seeds bonds the mixture together
- Lemon removes tan from skin, while tulasi and neem protects the skin from diseases
- Kachuralu, rose powder gives the fragrance to bear the scrub as a facial pack or scrub for hours.
How to make Sunni Pindi – the traditional scrub??
- Take fresh green grams, horse grams, and chick peas sundry for 2 days and prepare a fine powder by grinding at a flour mill. The flour mill is recommended to avoid damage of household grinder machine blades.
- Mix the green gram powder + Horse Gram powder + chick peas Powder +Turmeric powder + other ingredients mixture and store it in a glass jar with a cap to retain the fragrances of the rich ingredient.
How to use Sunni Pindi??
- The natural scrub powder – Sunni Pindi is mixed with water / milk / lemon juice / crushed cucumber /tomato juice/ yoghurt to form a paste of separable consistency.
- Oil massage your whole body, or face or hands or any part of the body that you want to scrub with Sesame oil, olive oil, coconut oil/ Mustard / gingelly oil or one that suits your body type before applying Sunni Pindi Scrub to your body.
- The application of oil easily coats the “Sunni Pindi” paste on to your skin.
- Leave the scrub “Sunni Pindi” on to the skin till it dries and use water to scrub away the pack off the skin.
- Thus, Sunni Pindi helps remove dirt, exfoliate dead skin and makes your skin smooth, glow and healthy.
- It improves blood circulation and improves skin complexion
If not daily, at least use this scrub once in a week or on festive occasions to rejuvenate and cleanse every skin cell of your skin!!!!
Benefits of sunni pindi
The natural body scrubber made at home includes all types of herbs and nutrients good for the nourishment of your skin. Each of the ingredients has separate value and nutritional factors. The ingredients such as chick pea, gram flours as well as rice flour have wonderful skill of exfoliating. Again turmeric, basil leaves as well as neem leave have its anti bacterial properties. If you have any types of skin irritants and infections these are ideal to be used. You can also get enough nourishment on your skin with the natural oils contains in almond nuts. If you can add essential oils in the pack of sunni Pindhi, getting a spectacular skin moisturizing is the mandatory.
You can now get a very soft skin with the Fenugreek leaves. You can also get wonderful shower experience with the fragrance of the rose petals. You can also stay away from the tan skin with the combination of milk and citrus fruit rind. You can stay away from excess oil that comes out of your skin due to excessive oil secretion.
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