Recipe for homemade kaajal?

This is the way my mother used to make kaajal.

Paraphernelia:

1. Silver lamp

2. Cow's Ghee (Ghee made of cow's milk)

3. Silver Plate

4. Two wooden blocks

5. Castor oil (Pharma grade)

Methodology:

Make a wick of cotton and soak it in cow's ghee. Next, fill the silver lamp with cow's ghee and light it. Allow it to burn for about five minutes.

Keep the two wooden blocks alongside the lamp and place the silver plate (Washed clean and dried well with a clean cotton/silk cloth) on the wooden blocks in such a way that it is just a little higher - about 1 centimetre from the flame.

Close all doors and windows and allow the soot emanating from the flame to collect on the surface of the silver plate.

After the lamp has died down, carefully collect the soot from the surface of the plate and transfer it to a small silver container.

Mix the pharma grade castor oil extremely well in the soot to the required viscosity. Remember to mix well without leaving lumps or dry powder.

This blended mixture is now ready as kaajal.

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The home made Kaajals are dark and long lasting but they do smudge a bit if rubbed.

The recipe to make is quite simple.

Take 2 mud Diyas or Lamps. Light a flame using a cotton stub with aid of any oil. Cover the lamp or diya with the other one leaving a little space for air. Put enough oil so that it lasts for some 6-8 hours. After the flame dies, collect the soot from lamp and use dry kajal. It is very dark and while using, take in finger and blow away extra quantity.

All the best!

Poonam

Home made Kaajal is just camphor smoke mixed with ghee.

Burn some camphor, while keeping a small metal plate/katori (preferably silver plate/katori) above the fire, so that all the sute (black smoke) gets stuck on it. After the camphor is burnt, turn the plate and mix that sute with some pure desi ghee (in some regions of India people might be using other type of oils also, like coconut oil, it might be also good) and then collect the mixture in a small box. You can use it afterwards. This is safe even for very small children. In fact, people are usually making kaajal at home just for babies .

This is the way my mother used to make kaajal.

Paraphernelia:

1. Silver lamp

2. Cow's Ghee (Ghee made of cow's milk)

3. Silver Plate

4. Two wooden blocks

5. Castor oil (Pharma grade)

You have got many good answers. Use oils like almond, mustard or pure ghee. You could apply the raw carbon. Since raw carbon spreads around use it while going to bed. This is best. never buy a kaajal from market.

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The preparation of this kajal is a very interesting process. A clean, white, thin 4x4 inch muslin cloth is used. It is repeatedly dipped in sandalwood paste or juice of Manjal karisilanganni (Alstonia scholaris (Linnaeus) R. Brown, evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally) and dried in shade. This dip and dry process is done all day long. After sunset, they make a wick out of the cloth and use it to light a mud lamp filled with castor oil (or, mustard oil). A brass (or copper)vessel is kept over the lamp, leaving a little gap enough for the oxygen to aid the burning of the lamp. This is left burning overnight. Next day morning, one or two drops of pure ghee(made by melting cow's butter) or castor oil is added to the soot on the brass vessel and stored it in a clean dry box.

first one has to take some sandalwood powder and make it a paste.apply this paste evenly on earthern tile.(earthern tile is one which is used to make home in early days ).then take four tiles of same size.then arrange the four tiles like an tomb.in the center keep one lamp which is also made up of earthern one.keep the lamp in the center of the domb.allow the lamp to continously burn and keep the sandalwood paste on the top of the domb.now the sandal wood will become black.remove the black part of sandalwood paste with the help of an sharp edged knife.apply some castor oil to make it a smooth paste.castor oil gives coldness to eye and in the same way kaajal lasts longer.