Ghazal Alagh Age, Education, Husband, Children, Father, Family, Net Worth, Biography

Ghazal Alagh is a businesswoman from India, who helped start MamaEarth in 2016, a company that makes natural skincare products for babies and mothers. MamaEarth became popular and grew to sell other health and wellness things too. In 2020, Ghazal and her husband also started TheDermaCo. Before all this, she worked as a teacher at NIIT Limited. Ghazal is a strong woman who made her dreams come true by helping others through her business.

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Ghazal Alagh Wiki/Bio

Ghazal was born on 2 September 1988 in Chandigarh, India, and her age is 35 years old as of 2023. She holds Indian nationality and follows the path of the Hindu religion and her zodiac sign is Virgo. The height of Ghazal is around 5′ 6″ inches. ¹

Ghazal Alagh Education & Qualification

Ghazal studied in Haryana and earned her bachelor’s degree in computer applications from Punjab University in 2010. Then she took a summer intensive course in Modern Art in Design and Applied Arts and an intensive course in figurative art at the New York Academy of Art in 2013. ²

Ghazal Alagh’s Husband & Kids

Ghazal was married to a businessman Varun Alagh in the year 2011 and they have two children together, Agastya Alagh and Ayaan Alagh.

Ghazal Alagh Family & Parents

Ghazal comes from a well-settled family, where her father Kailash Sahni is a businessman and her mother Sunita Sahni is a home supporter. She has two siblings, her brother is Chirag Sahni and her sister is Sahiba Chauhan.

Ghazal Alagh Career

Ghazal used to teach at companies, helping people learn about computers. But now, she is involved in art and business. The idea for Mamaearth came to her when she had a hard time finding safe products for her baby, Agastya. So, she decided to make her own.

Ghazal has even been named one of the top 10 women artists in India. Before she started Mamaearth, she was teaching people about computers at NIIT, showing them how to use things like SQL and Oracle. ³

In 2008, Alagh began teaching computer skills at NIIT, Chandigarh. She taught software like Oracle, SQL, and J2ME to workers at different companies. In 2012, she started Dietexpert.com, a website giving personalized diet plans based on age, lifestyle, weight, and fitness goals.

In 2016, with her husband, she founded Honasa Consumer Limited, which owns brands like Mamaearth and Aqualogica. They later bought BBlunt and Dr. Sheth’s. In 2022, it became a unicorn company and went public in 2023.

They launched Mamaearth in 2016 for safe baby products. It started with six items and expanded to 500 in five years. Mamaearth is also Asia’s only MADE SAFE certified brand. Alagh was a judge on Shark Tank India in 2021 and is recognized as one of India’s top ten women artists, with her work shown nationally and internationally.

Ghazal Alagh Net Worth

Varun and Ghazal’s company has grown a lot. They started with just Rs 25 lakh, and now it’s worth Rs 9800 crore! Mamaearth used to sell products online mainly, but now they are also selling things in stores. They have their research place where they make and test their products with help from an American agency.

Their products follow special safety standards called MadeSafe. They have over 5 million customers in about 500 cities. Last year, they made a profit of Rs 14 crore for the first time and became a unicorn, which means they are worth 1.2 billion US dollars now, which is around 1,00,20,09,00,000.00 Indian Rupees. ⁴

Ghazal Alagh’s Awards & Achievements

Alagh’s brand Mamaearth, was honored with the Best Brand of the Year award in 2019.
Ghazal received the honor as one of India’s top 40 achievers under 40 in 2019.
She also received the Super Startups Asia Award in 2019.
She has also been recognized as one of Business World’s 40 Under 40.
Alagh was named Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 by Entrepreneur India.
Ghazal has also been featured on the cover of The Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune in 2024.
Their startup was also the Startup Value Creator by Forbes India in 2024. ⁵