Ginger and Exoticism
My mom is a big fan of the Paul Mitchell haircare company, and has been my entire life. Their flagship product, the one she still uses to this day, is the Awapuhi line. It's got lots of different stuff: shampoo, conditioner, creams and treatments and sprays. Then I asked myself a question: wait, what the heck is Awapuhi? This video is from the official YouTube channel. I don't know what he's doing either. Awapuhi, scientific name Zingiber Zerumbet and known by a bunch of other names, is a species of ginger native to Asia and Austronesia. We have evidence of it existing at least 10,000 years ago, and it's been used in the region up to the present day. In 1983 or 1985, depending on what source you believe , Scottish-American hairstylist Paul Mitchell established an awapuhi farm in Hawaii. The company blog then says "[Paul Mitchell] went on to discover that Native Hawaiians had used the fragrant juice of the ʻawapuhi plant, also known as...
