Featuring art, photographs, and nuggets of history, The Hindu Weekend’s pick of calendars and journals go beyond the functional

The pandemic has given rise to many debut authors. How has the situation served as inspiration and what prompted these writers to take up the pen? - Featuring Sahar Mansoor

Reducing your carbon footprint when on the go has not always been the easiest task. Plus, one has to deal with the liquid allowances at the airport when it comes to toiletries. But in 2022, it is imperative that we move towards an eco-friendly travel outlook, making small changes as we go. Here are 5 eco-friendly toiletries that will be the perfect travel companions. 

Tis the season of giving! And in that spirit, Travel and Leisure India has rounded up five gifts that are great for all travel-loving souls - featuring Bare Necessities.

‘Tis the season of joy, cheer and delight and how can you indulge in the Christmas vibe without arranging gifts and presents for your near and dear ones? Whether for your beauty-crazy girlfriends or self-care-enthusiasts loved ones, Femina's gifting guide has something for everyone - featuring Bare Necessities.

The season to be joyful and merry is right around the corner and that means it’s also the time when gifts are exchanged. With a plethora of options, zeroing-in on that right gift can be quite time consuming. Here are some suggestions that might help narrow down the choices - Featuring Bare Necessities Gift Bundles

Leading an environmentally-conscious lifestyle is no easy feat but Bare Necessities Founder & CEO Sahar Mansoor is making a major impact and being zero-waste while doing so.

Looking to pack for a waste-free vacation? From reusable cutlery to capsule wardrobes, This article from Telegraph India has got it all covered - featuring Bare Necessities' products.

Newly-turned author, and Founder and CEO of Bare Necessities, Sahar Mansoor  talks to Cosmo about her foray into the zero-waste life, the pressing need to live a mindful life, and the imminent dangers that need our attention before it’s too late.

Be it for your guests, friends, and family, or simply to adorn your home for the holidays, here are 5 gifts that can be perfect for everyone.

In this series titled ‘Day in the life of’, tune into rapid-fire Q&A with Circular Economy Champion - Sahar Mansoor. Changing the narrative of waste management through zero-waste products and generating awareness around sustainable ways to preserve the planet, Sahar urges for a conscious revolution ahead.

The Success With Savitha Podcast is a Business Podcast with a special focus on female entrepreneurship.

In this episode Sahar discusses her journey with a zero-waste lifestyle and mindful consumption. She discusses how her book expresses an Indian outlook that has existed for centuries toward reducing waste footprint. Sahar also shares about women upliftment and how she hopes to inspire more people to adopt an environmentally sustainable lifestyle through her online courses and workshops.

Zero waste stores in India – from Dehradun to Chennai – can help us ditch single-use plastic in everyday groceries. At a time of lockdowns and social distancing, many online zero waste stores have popped up to offer plastic-free deliveries too!

Give your bathroom an eco-friendly makeover with these simple changes.

Bare Necessities is a zero waste personal care, home care brand and a hub for awareness on waste-free living.

World Environment Day 2021: Do you want to give up single-use plastic but don’t know from where to start? Here are some brands that can help you get started on the journey towards a zero waste and sustainable life.

Pinterest India celebrates Sustainability Month with a chat with Bare Necessities Zero Waste. Read on to find out more about loving the planet, eco-friendly production and why India's mindset needs to change towards sustainability.

Sahar Mansoor, founder of Bare Necessities shares her zero-waste journey.

Enjoy beautiful and healthy skin by using these products.

Bare Necessities' online courses have been listed in India's very first verified directory of 'Change Makers', introduced by Brown Living on World Environment Day.

From upcycled fashion and bamboo jewels to DIY kits and terracotta tableware, an edit of conscious brands and objects for World Environment Day 2021

Sahar Mansoor, founder of Bare Necessities shares her thoughts on living sustainably.

Most of us now turn to our favourite influencers for beauty advice, but this Mother’s Day here’s a hat-tip to the original beauty advisors of our lives—our mother figures. As little girls and boys, we’ve seen our mothers, aunts, and grandmothers maintain their beauty and wellness, often with a little help from their kitchen cabinets. The ELLE editorial team takes a quick trip to their childhood to recall a beauty tip shared by their mothers. Head to the new beauty destination, TATA CLiQ, to stock up on the contemporary forms of these age-old beauty tips!

Three growth-stage enterprises recently won awards for business potential in the culture space. Here are market insights from their founders.

Golden hour liquid soap, milky lip gloss and banana-tinted primer—a new serving of beauty products to choose from 

Sahar Mansoor, founder of Bare Necessities, shares easy tips on zero-waste living and how to lead a sustainable life.

In this episode of the Lead, Sahar Mansoor and Tim de Ridder talk about their book: 'Bare Necessities How to Live a Zero-Waste Life', what got them into zero waste, and more.

Link to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/deccanherald/episodes/The-Lead-Zero-waste-is-the-way-to-go-ettvbt/a-a53sciq

Featuring Bare Necessities (BN) on NICE Stories. Bare Necessities won 1st place at the NICE Aarohana Business Plan Competition – Growth Stage. BN produces zero waste personal, lifestyle & home care products and offers educational workshops and online courses on sustainability.

In the March issue of Punch Magazine, Sahar speaks about her early journey into sustainability and what led to Bare Necessities.

Bengaluru’s zero-waste advocate Sahar Mansoor has brought out a guide book that provides personal insights and interactive activities to help the reader transition to a more sustainable lifestyle

Women entrepreneurs in Bengaluru are looking back on a year of pandemic challenges. Ahead of Womens Day, they speak about the many hurdles they have crossed in the past months.

Sahar Mansoor, Founder, “Bare Necessities”, Author, and Tim De Ridder, author 'Bare Necessities - How to Live a Zero Waste Life' speak to Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld & exchange4media Group about living a minimum waste life, sustainability and the key ideas of their book

Zero-waste living and sustainable consumption need not involve grim sacrifices but, indeed, can be a lot of fun, entrepreneur Sahar Mansoor argues in her new book

How to live a Zero waste life by #SaharMansoor and #TimDeRidder is a one-stop guide on how to move towards a more sustainable lifestyle in India. It is filled with activities, insights, recipes, tips and how-to guides and is a must-read for anyone wanting to make a positive change in their life and to the environment. In conversation with GOODTiMES, Sahar Mansoor discusses why Bare Necessities: How To Live A Zero Waste Life is a must-read.

The pandemic taught us many things, the most of which was the need for going local when it comes to purchases. With borders shut and daily use products available in the market sparse, many took to the local route, opting for homegrown brands to fulfill their skincare needs. 

An excerpt from ‘Bare Necessities: How To Live A Zero Waste Life’, by Sahar Mansoor and Tim de Ridder

A "one-stop guide" on how to move towards a more sustainable lifestyle in India, "Bare Necessities: How to Live a Zero Waste Life", published by Penguin, is written by environmentalist Sahar Mansoor and sustainability consultant Tim De Ridder.

Small businesses from around the world share the stories of hardship and hope they experienced throughout 2020. The challenges they faced, the way they improvised and adapted, and their resilience helped us through this year and will drive us into the next.

GGEF (Global Green Economic Forum) today announced the latest leading lights to be recognised as champions of sustainability and women’s empowerment in business, at their fourth annual awards ceremony. Michelle Wong of Rooftop Republic Urban Farming, Liz Wong Ying Tung of Growth Playground, Dr Noryawati Mulyono of PT Seaweedtama Biopac, and Sahar Mansoor of Bare Necessities Zero Waste Solutions, received the awards after demonstrating their commitment to tangible environmental and social impact.

Our founder Sahar Mansoor was named as one of the business leaders under Meaningful Business 100 2020 for combining profit and purpose with Bare Necessities.

As Generation X and xennials grapple with fully transitioning to conscious living, young millennials and Generation Z are leading the charge to reverse human-caused environmental damage. Sahar Mansoor, founder and CEO of the Bengaluru-based zero-waste social enterprise Bare Necessities,

So, here’s the news. Bare Necessities has emerged as winners for FICCI Flo Social Entrepreneurship Award of the year 2019, sponsored by Raw Mango, Amrapali and the Embassy group. It was a celebration to recognise the accomplishments of brilliant women from various fields. That’s not all. We have also been recognized winners at the Times She UntdLTD awards under the beauty category. An endeavour to honour women who embarked on the journey of entrepreneurship from home, to make their dreams come alive. It is a platform that celebrates the passions, ambitions and aspirations of women who have put everything on the line to build and grow their own businesses. 

Our Founder Sahar Mansoor was invited to be part of Al Jazeera's panel on what it take sto become a Zero Waste household.

Our founder Sahar Mansoor was featured on NDTV's We the People panel on Plastic ban.

On his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a movement to make India free of single-use plastic, beginning on Gandhi Jayanti, which falls on October 2. However, plastic is everywhere and shopkeepers and customers continue to depend on single-use plastic. Is the target of a full ban on single-use plastic too high, or it can be achieved? Across the country, responsible citizens are working on their individual capacity not to use such plastic and spread awareness. NDTV is one of the leaders in the production and broadcasting of un-biased and comprehensive news and entertainment programmes in India and abroad.

It’s never too late to switch to sustainable choices in any and every aspect of your life. By making mindful moves on how you consume in your day-to-day activities, you can thrive alongside nature and save the planet's biodiversity, which is essential for its future as well as our own...

Bare's Zero Waste playing cards get featured!

From composting millions of tonnes of garbage to creating livelihoods for farmers via organic farming and recycling plastic waste into useful, everyday essentials, here our are remarkable businesses of this year.

These small-batch, clean bar soaps have luxurious formulas, fresh scents, and are gentler on your skin (and the environment)

Between tubes, creams and wipes, your beauty and wellness routine could be particularly harmful to the environment. Here's what you can use instead

As Indians, we're confronted with trash around us every day - on the streets, footpaths, open lands, etcetera. Overwhelmed by this trash problem, Sahar Mansoor, the founder of Bare Necessities, wanted to do something about all of it. ..

If you’re tired of playing the same old board and card games, here’s some good news for you.

Even on special occasions, India's middle-class displays environmental awareness. An innovative businesswoman in Bangalore has found there is a market for environmentally-friendly wedding celebrations

During this unprecedented time, it is important to remember that we are all in this together, and that we need to shift our energy and focus on unity, encouragement, and support of one another. So, we're shining the spotlight on local brands and businesses that are doing great work, are eco-conscious, and have winning business models to boot. Go on, show these enterprises a little bit of light in these dark times.

Attendees can hear the author, speaker, trainer, consultant, an entrepreneur CB Ramkumar who is also an expert in applied sustainability talk about sustainable workspaces and college campuses in an online podcast. The expert who helps corporates convert to total sustainability while factoring in global norms like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations can be heard talking about the subject with Sahar Mansoor who is the founder of Bare Necessities.

On world environment day 2020, we recognize the efforts of eco-friendly entrepreneurs across the country who worked selflessly and relentlessly to provide us with a healthy environment. These green entrepreneurs are changing the world and making it a better and greener place by saving our planet, lifting people and advancing growth.

Face masks from items you have at home; a floor cleaner made with baking soda, white vinegar, essential oils and water; an epsom salt and water natural mosquito repellent..

Brandversation is a series of interviews with successful young entrepreneurs, leaders, brand practitioners and owners, who share their perspectives, thoughts on how what are key aspects which goes into building great brands.

As the beauty industry looks for ingenious solutions to its plastic waste problem...

Dreams can be a reality & Sahar Mansoor’s journey from a multicultural experience during her studies to a ground reality exposure of the ecosystem around us is a vivid example. Take a pause and watch this journey of her.

This Earth Month 2020, we will be lending our page to Green Heroes who have made impressive strides in generating interest and awareness on sustainable living.

Today, Sahar Mansoor, owner of Bare Necessities – Zero Waste India pens down her thoughts on seeing the greener side of life.

Kick starting a new series of Brand Founders of the Sublime Family is Sahar Mansoor of Bare Necessities.

If the Covid 19-triggered lockdown of 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that when push comes to shove, we humans beings...

Sahar Mansoor was in her third year of college, when a video of Bea Johnson in one..

If you’ve wondered, a bit guiltily sometimes, about your carbon footprint or simply the amount of waste you produce daily and wanted to do something about it you should invest some time in picking up the 

This week we had the opportunity to learn from Sahar Mansoor, founder of Bare Necessities.

Sahar has established herself through various initiatives..

Sahar Mansoor’s Bare Necessities is an initiative towards building conscious environmental products for their users. It eliminates the critical element.. 

Leading a zero-waste lifestyle often comes with the notion that it is either too expensive or difficult..

Through our production and education methods we are changing the rhetoric relating to plastic use and products containing.. 

Episode 1: Sahar Mansoor (Founder of BareNecessities) in Conversation with Lathika Pai! 

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