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RE: Indonesian taditional natural remedy for mosquitos bites
This is common in Thailand too, although it does stain white skin & your clothing badly, as I discovered in the early days here. :) Look fwd to more about the adventures and the eco project in lombok. Lovely post.
Thanks for the info! Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia are very closely connected I guess, so I can imagine the remedies would be similar. Yes tumeric is a bit of an issue on white skin, altho I'm finding the fresher the tumeric is the easier it washes off but that might be my imagination. I'm not too bothered about it, neither is anyone else that bothered it seems by staining things, which is quite nice and refreshing attitude.
There are lots of other local things that don't stain & equally if not more effective. I wear white a lot (naturally repels mosquitoes!) and after 16 years in Asia the stains are just urgh! :)