Kamua ng’ombe: Why slay queens love Arimi’s milking jelly

Arimi’s was created by Hanish Shah in Meru County in 1983

Arimi’s is a jelly meant for tits. Cow teats. But Kenyan women, mostly lactating mothers, have taken to stocking the jelly common with dairy farmers who apply it on the udder of their cows before milking sessions.

And while the Arimi’s milking jelly was also used in rural Kenya when the petroleum jelly containers had been ‘licked’ dry by toughened rural fingers, trendy city women are now using it on their kids’ bottoms when not applying it themselves on their limbs. Never mind, back in the day, using Arimi’s got strangers asking, “Nani huyo ametoka kukamua ng’ombe?”