During the hamattan period, most people are in trouble of losing their skin beauty to dehydration. As a result the importance of body pomade cannot be over emphasized.
Components:
1. Paraffin Oil 2. Paraffin Wax
3. Petroleum Jelly 4. Perfume
5. Colorant of choice.
Materials/Equipment
1. Bottles 2. Labels 3. Stove 4. Pot
5. Kettle 6. Big Spoon 7. Tea Spoon
8. Basin or rubber bath etc.
Procedure:
Put pot on fire, add paraffin wax, add petroleum Jelly, add paraffin oil and allow dissolving. Add oil-base colour and perfume. Remove from fire and pour into the kettle. It is finally poured into the bottles and allowed to congeal. The spoons are for stirring and collecting the Jelly.
BODY CREAM:
Components:
1. Croda wax 2. Cetyl alcohol 3. Citric acid
4. Borax 5. Glycol 6. Paraffin oil
7. Petroleum Jelly 8. Vitamin E 9. Animal fat
(It is like Okwoma but is not, it is scarce) e.g. callogen.
10. Lanoline 11. Triethanol amine (TEA) 12. Glycerin
13. Preserver 14. Colour 15. Perfume of choice
Equipment:
(1) 2 Pots A and B
(2) Plastic Spoon
(3) Wooden Spoon
(4) Plastic Bowl
(5) Heater
NB: Any producer can use ½ units, 1 unit or more. For one unit measure of production, Borax should be combined with 3 plastic tea cups of water.
Procedure:
In pot A: - Put Jelly, paraffin oil, Cetyl alcohol, citric acid, animal fat, preserver, croda wax and lanoline, then put the pot on fire to melt the content. After, bring down the pot and leave open to cool.
In Pot B: - Put Borax and 3 cups of water if it is a one unit production. Place the pot on fire to boil but cover it. Put pot B first on fire before pot A, allow to cool.
Then pour the content of pot B in a bowl followed by content of pot A. stir the mixture, gradually add water as you stir. Continue turning until it becomes milky and pasty. Finally and vitamin E, Glycol, Glycerin and TEA then mix properly with your palm. Dissolve a small quantity of choice colour with cater, then mix everything together. After creaming, cover till the following day and finally add your perfume and bottle/package immediately. Preferably cream production is done in the evening.
HAIR FOOD:
A groovy hair is always what every one admires. The way your hair looks depends on the hair cream/food you use on it.
Components:
(1) Paraffin oil (2) Vegetable oil (3) Petroleum Jelly
(4) Paraffin Wax (5) Colourant (6) Containers
Procedure:
Put pot on fire, add paraffin wax, add petroleum jelly large quantity, add vegetable oil, and add colourant of choice and your perfume. Allow them to dissolve completely, then bring down pot, pour the content in a basin, transfer into kettle, then fill the containers with the content of the kettle. Allow to congeal.
SHAMPOO:
Component:- (1) Sodium Laurgl Sulphate
(2) Water (3) Perfume (4) Colourant
Procedure:- Use one cup of sodium laurgl sulphate against 4-5 cups of water add perfume and colourant as desired.
NB:- To produce sodium laurgl sulphate do the following:-
(a) Measure one gallon of sulphonic acid (not sulphuric please) to ½ gallon of vegetable oil. Mix the two together, stir, and allow it for about 30 minutes.
(b) Take the remaining ½ gallon of vegetable oil and top it together, allow the mixture for the next two days. What you have is your sodium laurgl sulphate.
Mrs. Phoebe Amaka Chikezie
Director PAC Cottage Services
08068000892
paccottageservices@gmail.com
