atta is not just for face. it is for the whole body. they take the atta and rub it on the surface of the skin and rub or rip it off so the hair grows fine. it works. my friend had it done by her mom when she was a baby/child and her hair is really fine and downy.
sookha atta?
or like goondha hova atta?
if they are using wet sticky atta then they are essentially doing something similar to waxing on the baby..no?
one of my cousins (chachi ki beti) was born really hairy... but after a few months, she was completely normal (much less hair)...
my other aunt (doosri chachi) was wondering how it happened, how did the kid go from being so hairy to completely fine so easily... and my aunt was a littlle shakki about the whole situation and was sure that the kid's mom used some secret totka to get rid of the hair, that the mom wasnt sharing ... lol... we thought the hair just disappeared naturally as the kid grew (coz it happens a few weeks after birth that the fine hair called "lanugo" disappears)...
but now am wondering if my other aunt did indeed use this atta totka... coz the kid was hairy a few months (as opposed to weeks as is the case with lanugo) after being born, and then all of a sudden the hair disappeared...