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making. Moringa has all important nutrition we need so in Africa, it had been eaten but it could be used to make cosmetics and personal care oil to beautify and to keep their skin clean. It is great training and opportunities for them to make and use moringa soap because most of the poorer people in Africa are not in s good sanitary condition and many people have died due to these problems. And, it even leads to income generating for them. Moringa soap is very beneficial for everyone and healthy!

We have still been working with soap produc-Â tion because soap needs drying up for a while and do some experiments if it works for every student. But, as soon as possible we would like every student in RVA to use our soaps without buying any soap in shop. And also, we have still a lot of used oil so we would like to make them more and more and we would like to precise about how much we should put ingre-Â teach how to make soap and the benefits of dients for the soap using a scale. Besides that, itself to not only students in RVA but people in it was very easy and fun! You can pick your St Vincent. favorite materials for coloring and in fragranc-Â Hisae Obata es you choose whatever you want and you can even use moringa for making soap! We found some articles that a group of farmers, mainly women in Africa had been trained in soap

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