So you wanna get rid if your stretch marks? try standing over slow burning aromatic incense on the ground a few times a week and voila no stretch marks. Ok seriously..don't try it (if ur not Somali)but aparently this is how we used to try to get rid of stretch marks in the olden times. Every Somali girls knows what im talking about because she has done once in her life. The thing is growing up i never knew it was an acient stretch mark removal technique...We just do it cuz our mom does it...and she did did cuz her mom did it! Somalis have a long history with Frankincense..which is what our traditional incense and perfumes are made of. Ancient Egyptians would come to Somalia for incense ( and also for Women but that's for another blog post) because Somalia was known as the land of the punt..which means the land of the Frankincense...There is still a region in Somalia called Puntland but it that's not the ancient Puntland were talking about here... So the next time you see your mom or aunt standing over slow burning frankincense, she's just partaking in an old, pre-islamic ritual...
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