The averaged effective two-body interaction (AEI ) which can be generated through the lowest order constrained variational (LOCV ) method for symmetric nuclear matter (SNM ) with the input Reid 68 nucleon-nucleon potential, is used as the effective nucleon-nucleon potential in the folding model to describe the heavy-ion (HI ) elastic scattering cross sections. The elastic scattering cross sections of 12 C − 12 C and 16 O − 16 O systems are calculated in the above frameworks. The results are compared with the corresponding calculations coming from the fitting procedures with the input finite range DDM3Y1-Reid potential and the available experimental data at different incident energies. It is shown that a reasonable description of the elastic 12 C − 12 C and 16 O − 16 O scattering data at the low and the medium energies can be obtained by using the above LOCV AEI, without any need to define a parameterize density dependent function in the effective nucleonnucleon potential, which is formally considered in the typical DDM3Y1-Reid interactions.