Mrs. Shakuntala Koolwont – Mother Nature’s fairy

Friday, 06 January 2012. She deeply believes in the power of nature. It took her 25 years of research and hard work to develop her secret recipes. Mrs Shakuntala Koolwont.

What is better than to start the New Year with good health resolutions. News on Sunday met Mrs Shakuntala Koolwont, beauty and health specialist at her home at Vacoas to know more on the benefits of Mother Nature’s delights on our health. As Aristotle said: “In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous,” Mrs Koolwont shares the same belief. As a wizard who has his own secret recipe to cast spells, Mrs Shakuntala has made up her own secret recipes using natural ingredients with the sole aim to benefit others.

But Mrs Shakuntala’s story is quite amazing. She worked in a marking department at first but always showed interest in beauty and health treatments. “I worked in a marketing department where one’s personality and image is an important aspect. At the same time, I already had much knowledge in beauty and health treatments and I always love taking care of my hair and having good looking hair,” she tells us.

Driven by her desire to learn more and to specialise herself in beauty and health treatments, Mrs Koolwont did not waste time and took the plane to go to India to take a six-month course. Back to the island, she continued doing her research and started concocting recipes and “I even took the risk to test them on me before using them on anybody else,” she says. But what motivated her to stop her work in marketing and embrace that of naturalist was due to some client. “I was really touched when some persons told me that they had to take cancer treatments due to the bad effects some hair products had on them.

From then, I decided to help people the best way I could and by using what nature gives us,” she says. Indeed, Mrs Shakuntala feels concerned about certain beauty treatments people are taking which are “unhealthy” according to her. She developed treatments to heal diseases such as psoriasis, scaly skin and eczema of the scalp. In addition, as she gives much consideration to hair health, she has “elaborated a process to colour hair naturally using the best products nature  provides. This helps the customer against side effects of using chemical coloration,” she insists. For most of her treatments, she uses fresh and natural plants from her garden but also imports products from India and the US.

Mrs Koolwont believes that “if a client is paying you, you must give him/her satisfaction and value for money.” She indeed enjoys her success and feels proud as people across the country come to see her and she has been able to cure people where hospitals, doctors and products have failed to do so. However, she does not forget her close ones. “All the credit goes to my sons who are in Australia and my husband who help me a lot in my work. They are the ones who made me become a professional,” she says proudly. She adds “my prayers also helped me and opened my eyes.” She describes her work as naturalist as a “noble job” but also a “challenging one” which she has successfully mastered as “many clients trust me and I have been able to bring a smile to them and make their life better.”

She advises people to be really careful with products beauty salons are using on them and that “the beauty salons must employ professional girls who have authentic certificates to work,” for she believes that health is a very important human characteristic with which you can’t play and that “beauty specialist is a difficult job.” Now, Mrs Shakuntala Koolwont’s goal is to open her salon in Australia and treat more people who have allergic problems and to continue sharing the benefits of her secret treatment recipes. She will never stop believing and trusting what Mother Nature has bestowed on us. “Nature has blessed us with many things and I am happy that I have been able to use them efficiently,” she says all smiles.