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How to Process Coconut Sap or Toddy

by Lito on September 10, 2008


Organic Fertilizers Locally, toddy is commonly called “tuba”. It is usually bottled and made into coconut wine, mixed with cinnamon bark to prevent fermentation which turns it into vinegar. Palm toddy is another kind of sap but not from coconut tree, it is from palm trees. Below are some technologies and procedures to convert the coconut sap into other value added products aside from wine.

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Dried Goji Berries

by Lito on August 23, 2008


Today while watching kabuhayang swak na swak, they features Carica, the herbal supplement company in the Philippines selling dried goji berries and they also showed how to make goji berry juice. Is not that complicated to make one. Just boil the dried goji berries and strain. Then pour the juice in bottles, which I assume you have to sterilize first to prolong the life of the juice. The dried berries only cost 500 pesos per pack. I’m not sure how many grams per pack, just contact them for details.

Goji berries cost 2,500 pesos per bottle, which I think contains 1 liter of berry juice. So if you will make your own, it would definitely cost less. The dried berries were imported from Afghanistan which is very abundant to that country and people there ignore and are only stepping on them. Carica also sell goji berry juice and cost less than the goji berry juice in the market.

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How to Make Glutathione Herbal Soap

by Lito on July 17, 2008

glutathione soapTo make glutathione herbal soap, you will need to invest for buying the raw materials and utensils, particularly a pail, spatula, hand mixer, scraper, small containers, and a 335mm (L) by 424mm(W) by 100mm(H) mold. You will need this mold to shape a long bar that could be cut up into 60 individual bars of soap. (If you can’t find a mold of this size, you can improvise by making your own mold.)

Here are The Materials You Need To Get Started:

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Making Eco-Friendly Detergent Soap

by Lito on July 1, 2008

…I think the only way we can save this planet is by going back to the basics like in the seventies or earlier perhaps. Where people use brown paper bags instead of plastic bags when they purchase items from the supermarkets or groceries. Also, detergents or other cleanings stuffs are mostly made up of organic ingredients instead of harsh chemicals that destroys the environment. I’m not sure is there is a strong demand nowadays of biodegradable detergents as per the article I read in a magazine but I think the reason perhaps is the awareness of people on the global warming and protecting the environment.

And with respect to the cleaning power of the biodegradable detergent soap versus the commercial detergent soap, it is also said that it is comparable and with other benefits like being mild to the skin and clothes. But if you ask me, I’ll choose the biodegradable detergent so we can protect the environment because this planet is not like a piece of clothing that you can throw away when old and ragged. Mother earth is only one and cannot be replaced.

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Make Your Home Made Yogurt

by Lito on May 18, 2008


homemade yogurtYogurt is one of my favorite dessert and also my family, and specially my daughter. They are good to eat if they come in with fruit bits like mangoes, papaya, buko and nata de coco. Whenever I buy in the supermarket I always have second thoughts because of the cost. Imagine, just a 125ml of a known local brand will cost as much as 32 pesos. But if you will try to make it at home, you will definitely save a lot of money. Why? because making yogurt with a liter of milk will also produce 1 liter. For example, if you buy a liter of fresh milk in tetra pack, it will cost more or less 65 pesos and will produce about 8 cups of 125ml yogurt. If the price of a 125 yogurt is 32 pesos, multiply it by 8 and it will cost you 256 pesos!

Comparing it with a home made yogurt, 65 pesos of milk is only 25% of the 256 pesos worth of 8 cups of yogurt. And despite the proliferation of yogurt makers on the market, everything you need to make yogurt is probably already in your kitchen, with the possible exception of the thermometer. So to start making the yogurt, go to this site >> http://www.makeyourownyogurt.com

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