A Moroccon lady hand squeezing the rare Argan oil
which are used as an effective beauty oil treatment for
ladies. It seems it is an all rounder in the beauty oils department. Keeps your skin smooth and no need for botox injections
Latest: Yusuf Hashim is planning another trip to
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Wiki
says:
To
extract the kernels, workers first dry argan fruit in the open air and then
remove the fleshy pulp. The next stage involves cracking the argan nut to
obtain the argan kernels. Attempts to mechanize this process have been
unsuccessful, so workers still do it by hand—making it a time-consuming,
labour-intensive process. Berber women often engage in this arduous task.
Workers
gently roast kernels they will use to make culinary argan oil. After the argan
kernels cool, workers grind and press them. The brown-colored mash expels pure,
unfiltered argan oil. Finally, they decant unfiltered argan oil into vessels.
Hank's Haiku
Timeless Berber folks
Timeless Berber folks
Time is measured in a thin
line on a cat’s back - (Claudia)
Unlikely product
Women’s yearnings for beauty
Affects village life
Cracks in our mask
Keeping illusions complete - (Brian)
Beauty has a price
Note: Claudia suggests to utilize extracts of
lines
in a poem from herself or Brian to create a poem.
i think the quest for beauty can sell us cheap..
ReplyDeleteand it is interesting to think how that might affect the village...or her village
which to me reads her family....
...your haiku is right on, Hank!
ReplyDeleteHank, I like how you took a line from both Brian and Claudia. Beauty does sell, but I wonder about the broken beauty inside.
ReplyDeletea fascinating process!
ReplyDeleteALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
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Very creative use of the prompt! Reminds me of the title of that brilliant book by Katherine Boo about slum life in Mumbai: 'Behind the Beatiful Forevers', so named because the shanty town she describes is behind billboards advertising beauty products.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great use of the lines Hank, and what hard labour for those precious drops.
ReplyDeleteNicely woven into haiku, developing the theme.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you have used the lines, Hank. I like the third one & 'beauty has a price.' Yes, it does. And like Truedessa I wonder about the broken beauty inside..
ReplyDeleteIt sells everything going, but doesn't mean they are very nice people. Sometimes just out to make a buck
ReplyDeletedef. beauty has a price - and sometimes people are willing to pay a lot for it...sometimes more than they can afford...
ReplyDeleteA very tedious process for that oil beauty ~ Enjoyed the snapshot and haiku Hank ~
ReplyDeleteThanks to your friend for the photography ~
It does take it's toil on people
ReplyDeleteGreat picture, but beauty is only skin deep, there is much hurt inside many people,
ReplyDeleteA great Verse.
I'll never look at shampoo with argan oil the same again after reading this!
ReplyDeleteso true, reminds me of another line from Brian's poem -
ReplyDeletei need no reminder
the cost.
and all these items everywhere are reminders...
Everything comes for a price, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteYours was a unique topic and poem using C&B's lines. Well done, this poem was pithy, incisive, and clever.
ReplyDelete... and in the end it's the inner being we are stuck with
ReplyDeleteNicely done! :)
ReplyDeleteyou know women well :) I think this was a beautiful haiku and you took on Claudia and Brian well
ReplyDeleteHow nicely you incorporated Claudia and Brian's lines. Great job!
ReplyDeleteWhat's so interesting, aside from the beautiful portrait of the village woman surrounded by beautiful handwoven baskets and as she extracts the argon oil, is the way that different cultures make use of the different products they have on hand but also the fact that for all women, no matter where we are, we value beauty and we all want to feel good about ourselves. Here we have it easy.. Heaven forbid I run out of mascara.. The store is just a few minutes away.. Short drive and a couple bucks later and I'm back in business but it's just not that easy for some and that's very humbling. These villagers make use of what they have on hand and most of the time, they rely on natural oils and herbs and homemade remedies. They live very simply but so much work goes into making themselves feel beautiful and that's probably the most purest and natural way to go.. I love the morrocan portrait and the morrocan haiku. I'm also a fan of the argon oils as well as arnica oils which are produced by the arnica flower. Love what you've done here!
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