The world of personal care products can be extremely confusing, especially if you are looking for organic and natural products that promise clean beauty. With the Indian Cosmetic Regulation's ever changing guidelines and non-beauty stringent mandates, labels like ’non-toxic’, ‘green’ etc mean nothing as tons of brands just use these titles for more eyeballs and sales. And thus comes my constant search for organic and natural skincare, that ensure everything from the ingredients to the packaging; is safe not only for my skin but also for the planet, has brought me to Deyga. 

Deyga is a fusion of nature and goodness, handcrafted with traditional recipes to bring 100% pure, cruelty free and sustainable products to customers. The brand offers a humungous range of products including skin and hair care, bath and body, oral and wellness products and above all baby care products; all gentle, natural and ethical. I’ve been using a host of products from the brand and here absolutely have a list of my most favourites that I’m sharing here.

Aloe Vera Gel
The multipurpose Aloe Vera gel accentuates skin and hair health. Massage the gel onto clean and pat dry skin or hair to replenish its natural moisture, making  it soft and supply with a natural glow. Aloe’s natural healing and softening properties make it an invincible product. The gel is cold pressed with no additional ingredients ensuring it retains all its nutrients.

Hair Serum
A liquid gold serum for hair that acts like a protective layer for the hair shaft. The hair serum is a blend of 100% organic oils including argan and carrot seed that helps promote new and healthy hair growth. The hair serum is especially beneficial for dry and damaged hair, excessively treated hair to stimulate growth, relive dryness and irritation and promote healthy scalp.

Rose Scrub
A body scrub made of skin cleansing ingredients such as Aloe Vera, rice flour, semolina and infused with skin rejuvenating ingredients like rose and lotus petals the rose scrub melts into the skin, refining the pores while exfoliating dead cells and skin. Regular use of the scrub ensures softening of the skin while providing healthy and gorgeous glow.

Mint Lip Scrub
A sweet and tangy combination of mint and sugar in the scrub helps to reverse pigmentation and prevents any damage to the lip cell membrane. The scrub is also include with shea butter and essential oils for moisturisation and beeswax to restore chapped lips. Regular use helps exfoliate dead cells away to nourish smoother and fuller lips with constant hydration.

Beetroot Lip Balm

Even though I haven’t stepped out much in the last year and a half, I’m always on the lookout for new things and it amazes me how much a pair of shoes excite me and I can visualise how it can simply transform my outfit from routine to spectacular. The lockdown has given me so much more time to explore the internet and thats when I chanced upon UP2STEP you can visit them at https://up2step.com/, my very own wonderland candy store. The platform offer the latest trends in the most affordable price tag, whilst an expensive look and comfortable wear. While browsing I just wanted to add new styles and fill the gaps in my shoe closet if any, but I ended up adding so many to my wishlist and even bought a few of them right away. I cant wait to show you what I’ve ordered, as each pair is absolutely stunning and gorgeous. 

The last year has changed our lives in many ways however; the one thing that has tied everything together seamlessly is technology. We’ve seen path-altering platforms emerge and make notable shifts in different spheres of life, education being no exception. Schools took the technological route for learning, making the experience interesting.

While I stood up to the challenge and navigated through e-schooling my daughter, I kept looking for avenues that would help broaden her horizon and give her an edge in a technologically advancing world. And my search leads me to ‘Coding’ a new-age skill that seems to be the need of the hour.

Well, very simply put 'Coding is the backend language of computers that when communicated with helps perform a specific function resulting in what we see at the frontend'. Just like any form of communication, there are numerous ‘coding languages’, which have their own individual set of rules, and are to be written specifically to obtain the outcome.

So before jumping onto the bandwagon I asked myself, ‘Why is it important for my child to know this language?’. As I read up on the benefits of coding, I soon realised that not only is coding a new form of literacy but also a path to holistic development that brings personal and academic benefits such as:

Logical Thinking 
Children today are born in the digital world and possess an innate ability to understand coding. A course allows them to use linear thinking and apply logic to break down, set and sequence instructions in a methodical manner to achieve desired results. It inspires them to look at and experiment with different permutations to see how each different set of instructions change the results.

Soft Skills
Children tend to move from one thing to another very quickly, but with coding, they improve on the most crucial skills needed to succeed - Consistency. Coding pushes them to continue to try again differently, especially when faced with a dead end. Consistency also enables them to realise other soft skills like communication, execution, leadership and teamwork.

Creativity
Coding may look like a very technical activity, but it encourages creativity as it requires finding avenues to achieve the desired result. So in all essence coding helps children to think differently, as they set out to turn a vague idea into something effective, something visual and something that works; through trial-and-error, by taking risks, and by applying their learning of the new language in new innovative ways.

So now the next important question is, what course do I enrol my child to? The internet is full of brands, platforms and courses, and so after rounding up a few options and researching about the courses offered on each platform I zeroed in on the Leapwaters Coding Camp.

Leapwaters is a learning platform that offers high quality, affordable, live interactive classes on essential digital skills in multiple Indian languages for children and young adults. The curriculum has been designed by a team of global experts and academicians, in a manner that is easy to absorb and fun to execute. The Leapwaters Coding Camp courses are outlined through new age teaching methodologies that make each of them highly interactive. I choose Leapwaters for:

Age-Appropriateness
The courses offered are for different age groups that have relevant topics that are age-appropriate and which increase from one group to the next. As the child grows older the courses offer continuity, with an appropriate advanced structure that is important for children.

Convenience
The convenience of online classes makes attending the live session easy either from any place with internet access. Also, the Leapwaters Coding Camp courses provide lifetime access to video tutorials in multiple languages, academic articles and notes. The instructor-led, student-centered courses ensure better understanding and involvement.

Curriculum
Even though the duration of each course is one month with a pre-set of topics to be taught, children are also involved in live projects with an amazing opportunity to make six coding projects, four apps, four games and two artificial intelligence and machine learning projects.

Assistance
The courses are easy and stress-free and also offer an option of catching up if a class has been missed. Apart from this it also provides free guidance counseling sessions if required by a student. An added is that every student is entitled to membership to The Leapwaters Entrepreneurs.

Value
The Leapwaters Coding Camp courses are valuable and that goes beyond the price of the course; which is extremely affordable and pocket-friendly, with an additional advantage of 10% discount on enrolling in Leapwaters Coding Camp righaway. The value the courses bring to the child with their quality programs, education experts, and community building initiative; makes it one of a kind.



Don't we all know that knowledge is power, and coding is the futuristic power that children will need to excel in the years to come? Whether they choose to use this power or not is completely upon them, however, we must equip them with this power today.