Whenever my mom vacations here from the US, she’d ask to buy tawas. She said her Filipino and American friends wanted tawas as pasalubong. Tawas is the Filipino term for Aluminum Potassium Sulfate, widely used as an active ingredient for deodorant. In its unprocessed form, it looks like white crystals. We went to Kamuning to go get…
Category: Personal Care
#TBT: Kikay tips for wedding belles!
I got married back in 1999. I didn’t have a bridal shower because I was the eldest among us siblings and cousins on both sides of the family. My barkadas were comprised mostly of boys because well, my interests were not exactly girly. I liked stuff like Mortal Kombat, Dungeons and Dragons, and Magic The…
Try before you buy with Sample Room
Although I’ve been a Sample Room partner blogger and active member since 2012, it’s only last May that they officially launched to the public. We were all whisked off the Balay Indang for the occasion. The theme was boho chic and the venue was transformed into a um… glamp site, lol. There were booths featuring premiere…
Healing with Vaseline Petroleum Jelly
You know, petroleum jelly has always been a mystery to me. I lived in my grandmother’s house as a child and I still remember how there were always jars of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly from the US in almost every room. I had no idea what they were for. Decades later, I still don’t know what petroleum…
Tangle Angel Baby Keyring Brush
My daughter has always kept her hair long. She refuses to have it cut above the shoulders. We all have thick hair and so it’s inevitable that she’d get tangles somewhere along the way. Sometime last year she was given a Tangle Angel Baby Keyring Brush (P248). It’s perfect really because she can just attach…