Beauty from your kitchen

I was reading my brother's blog on Tahi Minyak (owngsaying.blogspot.com.) It reminded me of my childhood days of fun and run. I was closed to my grandmother "Che" as how we called her. I was the one chosen for asisting her in tapai making, akok making, baulu, kueh bakar, cari mengkuang and sometimes cari kayu api. Was I rajin or what? yes I like to talk and ask questions. Then people called me Mashitah as to mean keletah in a nicer way. But above all I was rajin too. Very ringan tulang and like to experience many new things. I learned alot from her. Oh arwah Che is my Tok Guru Mengaji. So I respected her not just as my granny but as my guru mengaji too. There are many memorable moments to be documented about mengaji but in later issue.

I want to talk about beauty from my granny's kitchen. perharp if one...day in ten to twenty years time , my blogs content publishable as reading materials, people could still extract valuable materials for scientific and medical purposes.
Talking about collecting kayu api, sometimes I noticed kayu api that bleed hot liquid. Not all kayu api that can have this effect. It is said that that liquid is good to reduced scars by rubbing it onto scars. What is exactly this liquid? Resin? Cellulosic materials? It could reduced dark spots too as they claims.

Arwah Che used minyak kepala for her hair. To the newly prepared coconut oil she soaked bunga tanjung or kenangga or melur for aromatic effect. Yes her hair was not that grey while she aging. Ohhh there was another one important item in hair care...sikat kapit. This kind of sikat is made of wood materials made in China. Good for expelling kutu from my hair too then. You need minyak kepala and rubbed thoroughly to your hair and it will ease the removal of head lice (kutu). Did like to be applied with minyak kepala on my hair? NO and always NO. I cannot stand the rancid smell of it. It is ok if it is still fresh. But most of the time if I slept over her house, her gentle and persuasion always worked on me though.

These days, all the rancid and sticky nature of coconut oil solved. Through cold press and fermentetion and separation techniques...all gone but the nutrients. We even can drink VCO now for health maintenance due to high short and medium chain fatty acids.

Beside berwuduk constantly, perah kelapa help to soften the palm. Drink air kelapa and eat the tumbun. All about coconut is good for health and beauty.

Please don't leave coconut behind.