Bindi Ayurvedic skin care

Know how the best looking clothes are usually not “one size fits all?” They’re tailored to run the length of your leg just-so, and nipped and tucked in a way that flaunts your curves in the right places.

Great beauty product lines also live and die by this principle — and Ayurvedic treatments are the leader of the pack when it comes to individualized skin care. Ayurveda is a centuries-old philosophy that promotes a holistic approach to beauty — that means paying as much mind to your lotions and masks as you do your daily intake of water and veggies. According to its tenets, a skin care regime is most effective when it takes your dosha, the elements that make you you, into account. The creams and oils you use should differ, depending on whether you’re a dreamy “vata” (space and air), fierce “pitta” (fire and water) or easygoing “kapha” (water and earth).

Before you dismiss this as hippy-dippy mumbo jumbo, visit Bindi Ayurvedic Skin Care’s website, take its quick and fun skin/body type analysis and explore the range of products designed to soothe the rough patches you may develop as a passionate pitta or balance your restless and dry-skinned vata.

Bindi Basic Aroma Mist

A few interesting products include: Basic Aroma Mist, an ideal after-yoga toner that contains ratrani, a sensuously sweet-smelling essential oil; and chywangrans, a tonic made from edible herbs and fruits, which is rumored to be an anti-aging gift from the gods.