A Goan by birth and in spirit. Writer at heart. Loves spending time in nature, writing on issues and ideas I care about
Communications professional working to craft a safer, nicer planet.
Proud, loving SODA (Sibling of a deaf adult).
Member of the Capital City Minstrels and Paranjothi Academy Chorus, Mumbai. Travelled to Europe for a magical 40-day music tour.
Striving to live a mindful, conscious, kind, zero-waste lifestyle.
I started Labours of Love in 2014, to explore ways of living that were beneficial for us and the planet. The aha moment for me was when I was exposed to the ugly side of the beauty industry – animal testing in particular made me rethink my consumer trajectory in a seminal way. The products I use and the way I live looks very different from a decade back. Having absorbed many ideas, and understanding through my own personal research, I now hope to influence others to join me in this journey towards conscious, sustainable, responsible, joyful consumption.
Recently, I was part of an amazing conversation as part of a series featuring women and their lockdown experiences/ learnings triggered by the Covid19 pandemic
On #WorldMenstrualHealth Day, I spoke about my belief in Ayurveda being a transformative solution in relieving common menstrual and reproductive health issues in this wonderful video curated by Gynoveda
The Concious Way 
Merrill,
Have always loved your blogs and banter about cricket. I am Ved, and we are building a a Social network for Cricket called crickethuddle.com
A sport, which I don’t need to tell you the importance about in the Indian ecosystem. We just have received funding from a VC firm here in the States.
We are building a technology platform so as to give our users a place to Create, connect, collaborate and consume all their cricket.
Would love to know if that would be of any interest for you to cover in your blog sometime? Send me an email at ved@crickethuddle.comand we could talk more.
Ved
Founder Crickethuddle.com
Email: ved@crickethuddle.com
Hello Ved! Thanks for your appreciation. I don’t write on cricket, though I liked watching Lagaan :)) All the best with your venture. Maybe I could help in other ways?! Will mail you
I was so confused about what to buy, but this makes it unarastdndeble.
Hi I like your blog . You have seriously put in a lot of effort trying to get the names of the ones which do not test on animals. I think it would be useful if the list is shortened to companies which do not use parabens / SLS / SLES .
Hi Anu, thanks for your suggestions. I shall get to this soon. Please also visit our Facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/SustainableIndianBeauty/
A good research has been done by you. Really useful for us. Thank you. Please give a look here.
https://shreemayee2016.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/review-organic-therapie-under-eye-cream/
Hey Shreemayee, good to hear from you. Thanks for this review. We shall check it out! Also, do follow our Facebook page for updates on safer, more ethical beauty products and practices @ https://www.facebook.com/SustainableIndianBeauty/
Hi Merril
I liked your blog. We are a startup company making 100% handmade & natural soaps. I wanted to know if you could review our products and share it on your blog or page.
Hey Nisha, great to hear from you, and that you’ve started your own natural product brand. It would be great if you could share more info on your brand by following our Facebook page for updates on safer, more ethical beauty products and practices, and messaging us there @ https://www.facebook.com/SustainableIndianBeauty/ We respond fairly quickly. Thanks!
Dear Merril,
I just read your blog on the top 50 brands that are cruelty free and made in india. Good read!
We are selling beauty/skin care products under our brand name VEDA and all our products are cruelty free and 100% made in india.
In addition, we have a few success stories about several entrepreneurs who have left their full-time job to start with their own business as distributors for VEDA in India. Would really appreciate if you could introduce our brand and support us in generating more jobs locally. Thanks in advance!
Amit @Team VEDA
Hi Amit, it’s wonderful to hear about your initiative. It would be good if you can message us more details on our Facebook Community Sustainable Indian Beauty. Looking forward to connecting!
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