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A tiring day spent rushing through the dull monotony of everyday life. You return home in anticipation of your comfy blankets and warm food. Within the safe comforts of a healing home, you prepare to doze off for a few blissful minutes.

BUZZZ.

And there goes your peace. One stray mosquito that keeps buzzing all over the place. One that prepares to zoom in and bite when you are right about to sleep off. You try swatting it but it is always cleverer and much faster than you. Soon, they multiply and continue their onslaught in huge swarming numbers.

Frustrating hours meant for peace and quiet. Successfully failing swats. The intense fear of using chemical repellents. The desire to protect your body and mind.

Herbal Strategi brings you an exclusive range of Mosquito repellent products that aims to keep away the pesky little pests while also keeping you safe from harmful side-effects.

Herbal Strategi Mosquito Repellent Room Spray (Just Spray)

This room spray is unlike any other as it comes with multiple benefits. Use the spray under your beds, in narrow crevices and other hotspots of mosquito breeding. Apart from keeping the mosquitoes away, they also spread the room with an airy fragrance just like a typical room spray. They do more than just freshening the room with an exotic aroma. The most annoying little tyrant, the mosquito is also kept away.

Herbal Strategi Mosquito Repellent Body Spray (Mospray)

Mosquitoes are a form of trouble that extends far beyond the confines of your home. It might be during the long-drawn minutes of a boring bus ride or an animated dinner night with your family – mosquitoes can come from anywhere at any time. It is not possible to use a coil or a swatter when you are out for an occasion. So Herbal Strategi has introduced a specially-designed mosquito repellent body spray which can be used anytime you travel outside. Not only does it keep the mosquitoes away, but also acts as a safe alternative to all the harmful chemical products available in the market.

Herbal Strategi Mosquito Repellent Incense Sticks (Mostick)

Incense sticks are quite a popular feature in all our homes. Used as a means of freshening the air on a hopeful morning, we find them during prayers and chants to signify new beginnings. But what if they could keep away the nuisance of mosquitoes too? We introduce our Herbal Mosquito Repellent Incense Sticks which performs the dual role of eradicating mosquitoes from your place while also infringing an aromatic peace within your homes, gardens and patios.

Herbal Strategi Mosquito Vaporizer (Mosrelief)

Plug-in electronic vaporizers have been the rage among all the methods invented to eliminate mosquitoes. A college student’s funky room or the calming interiors of a formal office, the huge comforters and freshly made beds while you sleep – Vaporizers find a place everywhere. Little do we know of the detrimental effects caused by those chemical vaporizers on human health. Juvenile asthma and premature respiratory illnesses occur due to the prolonged exposure to these chemicals. To make people aware of this danger and help them switch to healthier options, we introduce our own Vaporizer that consists of natural ingredients only.

Herbal Strategi Mosquito Repellent Oil

The tactics to keep away the ever-present mosquitoes have become easier and much more innovative with time. Herbal Strategi’s mosquito repellent oil requires you to add 8-9 drops of the oil into a small vessel with 30ml water. This small task when repeated everyday produces natural fumes that is toxic to the mosquitoes only. Free of side-effects and chemicals, they can be used in the heaviest breeding places in and around your home.

Herbal cleaners for your home!

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Herbal Cleaners

It is a lazy Sunday. One day of late mornings, crazy brunches and bored nothings. For those of you that toil throughout the droning week, this is the one day you get to take care of yourself. Most of the time, you are left with a musty home for the weekend. Thus a major part of your special Sunday is devoted to making your home look spick and span for the coming week.

You may be the one that is infused with an obsessive energy to wipe away every speck of dirt every moment. You might also be the kind that cannot be bothered with such disparities and lounge away till your home gets so dirty that it’s uninhabitable.

We all clean our homes, our dorms and anything else we hold dear. Scrubbing  floors, removing stains, freshening bathrooms – we do it all and more.

The plethora of chemical products available in the market makes it impossible to make the best choice. Every channel swarms with advertisements of shining floors and fake promises. Nobody talks about the harmful health effects caused by the prolonged use of these chemical products.

Herbal Strategi introduces it’s exclusive range of herbal cleaners to ease up your cleaning schedules and protect your health from the harmful effects of the chemical alternatives available in the market.

Herbal Strategi Bathroom Cleaner

The Herbal Strategi bathroom cleaner can be used on your bathtubs, bathroom fittings, tiles, basins and sinks with no worry of any deteriorating effects. Usually, it is one rigorous day of acids and other coloured chemical solutions to tidy up your bathrooms. But with our cleaners, you have an extremely easy task ahead of you. Apart from reducing calcification and removing stains, they also infuse a breezy aroma within the crevices of your bathroom. This negates your need to make another trip to the store to buy bathroom fresheners.

Herbal Strategi Toilet Cleaner

Similarly, the other house of germs within your bathroom is the toilet. The toilet cleaner introduced by Herbal Strategi is a natural product that only consists of herbal ingredients. They can be exclusively used for your toilets and is an effective means to remove the stains and germs infringed in those surfaces. You will end up with shiny and gleaming surfaces in no time!


Herbal Strategi Kitchen Cleaner Spray

Amid the bustle of everyday meals and the stress of washing the multitude of vessels, your kitchen just seems to be getting messier. Spilt oil, unwatched frothy milk, fruit peels and endless water puddles – the process of cleaning a kitchen seems like a waiting disaster. While you usually use chemical sprays that promise glittering surfaces, they only harm your respiratory system and are extremely toxic to your health. Herbal Strategi introduces it’s kitchen cleaner spray that offers you multiple benefits. Apart from gleaming surfaces, they also keep away the mosquitoes and flies that frequent your kitchen and adds in a fresh fragrance of lemongrass.


Herbal Strategi Glass Cleaner Spray

Transparent glass panes which get spotty and stained by the day. You keep cleaning them every second a random spot or stain appears. Herbal Strategi’s glass cleaner spray consists of a wide range of essential oils and hence is non-hazardous to human beings. They act as a safe replacement of the chemical sprays in the market and hence is the healthiest option to be chosen. As an additional benefit, they also keep away pests from colonizing the surroundings.


Herbal Strategi Liquid Dishwash

Have you seen the hands of your maids or those of your hardworking mom’s? They are hard, wrinkled and rough. The smooth, supple softness you see on your hands are rough, peeling patches on their fingers. More often than not, this is because of the harshness of the chemical dishwashing soaps and liquids. Herbal Strategi introduces it’s herbal dishwasher liquid that it made up of aromatic and soapnut oi. It also helps you get through the piled up dirty dishes with gentle and smooth hands.


Herbal Strategi Floor cleaner

The final touch to beaming floors is to mop it till your tiles and marbles shine. At this stage when you use a chemical floor cleaning liquid, you are inadvertently harmed because of it’s toxic constituent chemicals. On the other hand, our chemical floor cleaner offers the benefits of disinfecting the floors and repelling insects along with a sparkling surface. Comprised of herbal ingredients, they offer an effective switchover from all the toxic chemical products you have stashed at home.

The Herbal Strategi range of products are available at every popular supermarket in HSR Layout and also online.

 

Rajesh Jewellery Mart cheated of Rs 5.75 lakh by vendor

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A big-time jeweller in HSR Layout was conned by a vendor the other day. He took gold but never made any jewellery from it and neither did he return the gold. Although, the incident happened in February this year, the complaint was lodged only on June 22, 2019.


According to Rajesh KV, the proprietor of Rajesh Jewellery Mart on 5th Main in Sector 6, HSR Layout, 45-year-old Dhananjay, a resident of Nandini Layout, took 180.38 gram gold from Rajesh Jewellers on February 25, 2019. He was allegedly tasked to fashion jewellery out of it. The deadline came and went but neither did Dhananjay produce the jewellery nor the gold that was given to him. Rajesh, a resident of Krishnagiri, filed a case of cheating with the HSR Layout police. The jewellery is valued close to Rs 5.75 lakh.


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Liquor stores raided in Sectors 1 and 7 for allowing drinking within the premises

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Two liquor stores were raided by the cops for allowing drinking near the cash counter as they went against the excise rules of the state.

The first raid was conducted on Manjunath Bar & Restaurant on 24th Main in Sector 1 between 6pm and 6.50pm. The alleged accused is Lokesh, a 39-year-old resident of a village in Mandya district.

All the liquor at the cash counter was seized, including one Old Tavern (90ml), one Original Choice (180ml), and one Royal Stag (180ml).

A case of violating the rules of the Karnataka Excise Act, 1965 under section 36 (b) is registered against the outlet for missing the excise licence.

SECOND RAID
The next raid happened on June 17, a day after the previous police action. This time around, it was Liquors City on Mangammanapalya Main Road in Sector 7. The raid was conducted between 8.30pm and 10.15pm. The alleged accused is helper Prakash Gowda (27).

The liquor seized from the cash counter included one Old Tavern (90ml), one Original Choice (180ml), one Royal Stag (180ml). He was arrested for making space for customers to allow drinking in the retail premises, which was against the excise rules.

Basement shop closures soon: BBMP Joint Commissioner

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Following the statement to us by BBMP Commissioner Manjunatha Prasad that the basement shops will be shutdown after May 23, it is now learnt that the BBMP is getting ready for this massive operation. As it requires a systematic way of conducting the operation without fear or favour, there needs to be some amount of planning. For this project, political will is not an issue as the action is ordered by the Karnataka High Court.

 

Enough time has already been given – more than three months – for all the shops to relocate from the basements. Ofcourse, there are many new shops coming up in the basements as the landlords are openly sceptical about BBMP’s real motives. However, they fail to see that they are violating a 1976 law. The real sufferers will be all those new tenants in basements, and here is where their ignorance will lead to financial losses.

 

Speaking to Residents Watch, Dr A Soujanya, Joint Commissioner, Bommanahalli, said: “We will begin the basement shutdowns soon. We have just resumed our work after the elections. We will have a meeting, prepare the time table and chalk out our next steps.”

Use steel cutlery for celebrations, say residents and offer a rental service

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Hasiru Mithra, a group of HSR Layout residents, that works towards bettering the neighbourhood selflessly also offer an affordable steel cutlery rental service. This is perfect for the upcoming festive occasions. In fact, these are perfect for birthdays, anniversaries and just about any occasion that requires you to rent cutlery. Instead of going plastic, go steel. Not only is it environment-friendly, it also saves you from getting diseases like cancer due to plastic usage.
 
 
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BYOC is the new buzzword, and it means ‘bring your own cutlery’. Thanks to their venture, little ones are now carrying their own cutlery for the Ashtami Pooja celebrations. “Take your own cups, containers, cloth bags, and cutlery everywhere, just like your wallet and phones,” says Hasiru Mithra co-founder Lalithamba Viswanathaih. “Buy from local shops, loose packaging free stuff as much as possible. Lets respect Mother Nature by saying ‘No’ to single use plastics and paper disposables, and keep taking #BYOCSelfie to inspire many more people.”
 
 
If you notice paper or plastic cups or any single use disposables in your office, attempt to make a change towards reusable cutlery like steel. Start celebrating Waste-Free functions. “We have a steel cutlery bank for any celebrations with nominal rental charges (available in HSR Layout and Somasundrapalya). Happy Eco Navaratri!”
 
For renting steel cutlery, you can contact Lalitha (94480-63776). Will you be the next Change Agent?

 

(Sponsored) The Herbal Strategi range of cleaners, repellants and pet products

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With its herbal cleaners, insect repellants, pet products, and more, Bengaluru-based Herbal Strategi advocates a clean and natural life without the use of chemicals. The journey began when serial entrepreneur John Thomas was in search of a new adventure. That’s when he developed a serious respiratory infection, which the doctors suspected was caused by the … Read more

BBMP fines plastic sellers and removes footpath encroachments

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On the HSR side of Mangammana Palya Main Road, the BBMP officials have removed footpath encroachers yesterday. In addition, shops using banned plastic were fined. In the last week alone, Rs 18,000 worth of fines were levied for using plastic bags and dumping garbage in stormwater drains and vacant sites.
 
 
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There were four raids in HSR Layout last week, including one yesterday. The places covered were 24th Main in Agara, Sector 2, 27th Main and 17th Cross. Yesterday, the raids were conducted on Mangammana Palya Main Road where footpath encroachers were also evicted, including pushcart vendors and those keeping cylinders and other equipment on the footpath.
 
 
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The fish seller’s vehicle caught with the waste at Silk Board junction
 
The BBMP officials look for addresses of the dumping parties through receipts and other banking transactions that are part of the waste. And in one case, they catch people in the act. Last night was one such instance where the officials caught a fish seller of MG Palya dumping non-vegetarian waste into the stormwater drain at Silk Board junction. He was fined Rs 6000 for the misdemeanour.

 

The Organic World is now in HSR Layout!

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The Organic World has opened its doors in HSR Layout! Located next to MK Retail on 17th Cross in Sector 2, the store is spread over 2000 sq. feet and is equipped with a community cafe and a children’s play area to entertain all age groups.
 
 
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The store boasts of products in several categories ranging from fruits and vegetables to home and personal care. The Organic World in HSR is not your average retail store. Walk in and experience the store by helping yourself to some aromatherapy, and maybe whip up your own beauty product or grind up your very own wheatgrass shot!
 
Organic products are often associated only with fruits and vegetables but the store tells us otherwise. You will learn that there is a lot more to organic living than just eating organic. The store aims to educate you about taking the sustainable way out and introduces the concept of zero waste shopping and urges everyone to do their bit and make a difference! Choose Better – these are the two words that seem to sum up their motto.
 
The Organic World was started with the mission to make a positive and progressive difference to the world. Locally sourced and organically grown produce that benefit individuals and communities. And these not only improve a person’s general well being but also bring in socio-economic benefits working its way up from the grassroots level.
 
The company was launched in 2013 to give customers, the most remarkable organic shopping experience for all your daily needs, from beans to jeans and bathing soaps to cushion covers. There seems to have been no exceptions made to deliver the best quality of products to their customers while also serving a greater good.
 
To choose better and go organic, head to The Organic World now.
 
The Organic World
HSR Layout: #483, Sector – 2, HSR Layout, NIFT Junction, After SBI Bank, Bengaluru 560102.
Koramangala: #44, 100 Feet Rd, 4th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560034
JP Nagar: #58, 15th Cross Rd, Jeewan Griha Colony 2nd Phase, JP Nagar, Bengaluru 560078
Free home delivery: Phone: 9008 153 599
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Resident launches door delivery of plastic and chemical-free groceries in HSR

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Vandana Pandey, a new resident of HSR Layout, quit her cushy job as a software engineer a year ago, went on a cycling trip across Rajasthan and Gujarat for several months, and moved in to HSR Layout to start an online grocery store with a difference. Her ‘Suunya’ outlet delivers groceries which are plastic and chemical-free.
 
 
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Born in a farming family where she lived a zero-waste lifestyle in her small village in UP, she finally found a job that stays connected with nature. Soon, she plans to set up a warehouse where customers can visit and fill up their cloth bags and steel containers with nature-friendly goods.
 
You can place your order through Whatsapp and your paper and plastic-free goods will be delivered to your doorstep. “It’s a self-funded initiative on a small scale, started inside one room in my friend’s house,” she says. “Our focus is not so much on recycling but using resources wisely, because recycled products will eventually lead to a landfill,” says Vandana.
 
In the first phase, she is providing non-perishable food Items, and will soon venture into home and personal care, fresh fruits, and vegetables, with perishable items to be the last on her list.
 
Vandana is working with small and medium scale farmers of Karnataka who practice natural farming and don’t add synthetic chemicals, pesticides or fertilisers. “I believe food miles is part of sustainable living, and I want to promote local produce as much possible,” she says.
 
Why not call it an organic store? “When our air and soil is not organic and polluted, how can the produce be organic? There will be traces of chemicals,” she says. “All we can ensure is there are no external chemicals and pesticides.”
 
 
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If you are not sure of any so-called food is organic, Vandana has a simple tip. “Your body is smarter than your smartphone. Just connect with it, and it will tell you without any reports and certifications.”
 
Vandana wants each resident to ‘rethink, refill, reconnect’, and would like Suunya to aid the conversation on the waste we are creating. “Let us all together change the shopping environment and make conscious consumption, the new normal,” she signs off.
 
THE DELIVERY MODES
1. The minimum amount for home delivery: Rs 1000
2. Delivery Charges:
Picking up from my place in your own container: 5% discount
< 2km: Rs 50
2-5km: Rs 100
>5 to 12 KM: Only if there are 10+ order from the community with delivery at cost.
 
You can place your order through Whatsapp or call Vandana at 93802-90981.