Malaysian mother creates homemade watercolours for her four children


Aida is a paint enthusiast who mixes and mulls colours by hand. Photos: Aida Azni Zulkifli

In Aida Azni Zulkifli’s household, soaps, shampoos and laundry detergents are all homemade. She also sews clothes for all her four children and makes beeswax wraps as an alternative to plastic wraps.

Her husband, research manager Mohamad Taufik Mohd Sallehuddin, grows leafy vegetables and fruits like passion fruit, soursop and mulberries in their spacious garden in Saujana Impian, Kajang, Selangor.

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