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Elephant dung soap is cleaning up as a beauty treatment
cbsaustin ^ | July 9, 2021 | Shadrack Meshack Omuka

Posted on 07/10/2021 8:33:02 AM PDT by bgill

When the Covid-19 pandemic devastated Kenyaโ€™s tourism industry, a group of Maasai women in Narok County, who, for decades, depended on selling beadwork and trinkets to tourists for income, discovered an unlikely alternative way to survive: making soap from elephant dung...

After collecting the elephant excreta, the women dry it in the sun, grind it into a fine powder, and mix it with water and olive oil. They then add coloring powder to the liquid soap...

Elephant excreta is also the raw material for beer, coffee, biogas, and for making eco-friendly paper.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...


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KEYWORDS: elephantpoopsoap
Because tourists are stupid and will buy anything.

Yeah, putting poo on a toothache would be my first thought. And then don a "Kiss me, I'm Irish" t-shirt.

This is right up there with that Asian cat poop coffee. To think I've been scooping the kitties' litter into the garbage.

1 posted on 07/10/2021 8:33:02 AM PDT by bgill
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Isn’t that like picking up a turd from the clean end?


2 posted on 07/10/2021 8:37:02 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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Well, now you have the soap to clean it with as well.


3 posted on 07/10/2021 8:44:43 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I distrust camels and anyone else who doesn't drink for a week.)
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“Because tourists are stupid and will buy anything.”

Once it makes it to the USA it will prevent cancer ...


4 posted on 07/10/2021 8:47:18 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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“This is right up there with that Asian cat poop coffee. To think I’ve been scooping the kitties’ litter into the garbage.”

Poo not used. The Civit is fed coffee beans and the beans are recovered for the coffee.


5 posted on 07/10/2021 8:51:55 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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Well that damn sure sounds like poo is intimately involved in the process somewhere along the line!

"No ma'am, there's no poo in these coffee beans. We just let them marinate inside the poo-filled intestine of a cat for a few days."

6 posted on 07/10/2021 8:54:46 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: TexasGator

๐˜–๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜œ๐˜š๐˜ˆ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ...

But it will still probably have the California Prop 65 label on it.


7 posted on 07/10/2021 8:57:49 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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As long as they don’t step in it, that would be gross


8 posted on 07/10/2021 9:39:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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I thought that was supposed to be good luck


9 posted on 07/10/2021 10:21:54 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Once it makes it to the USA it will prevent cancer ...

And it will cure Sebastian Gorka's gastric difficulties and Sean Hannity's insomnia.
10 posted on 07/10/2021 10:29:33 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (โ€œAt first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.โ€ -- Hemingway)
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Always trying to pass off new shit.


11 posted on 07/10/2021 10:51:14 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesnโ€™t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.h)
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Elephant excreta is also the raw material for beer...

Already been done. Budweiser.

12 posted on 07/10/2021 10:53:05 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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In college, the word was that if you rubbed chicken s—t in your hair, you’d be Rapunzel in no time.


13 posted on 07/10/2021 10:56:01 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: monkeyshine

LOL Seriously? I never had good l uck stepping in fertilizer


14 posted on 07/10/2021 11:39:19 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bgill

And you get this massive craving for peanuts.


15 posted on 07/10/2021 2:56:36 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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Woman with mud pack on asked by friend you smell peanuts and bananas ?.


16 posted on 07/11/2021 9:17:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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