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Beauty therapy: How paraffin bath washes away wrinkles

Beautician Irene Lucinda Ogali-Hauffe

When it comes to matters of beauty, descendants of Eve can do anything. From eating their own placenta to having snails smear their slimy stuff on their face, women do not take their face value lightly. They will even have ‘omena’ nibble away dead cells from their feet.

 Now in Nairobi is a new beauty therapy which involves paraffin (or mafuta taa) all in the name of clearing away wrinkles?

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