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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:58 am


Sakakikala
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I've treid nair...it ate my flesh. It grew back but still. it was gross looking. crying

(sorry about off topicness)


That's because the active ingredient in Nair is lye. Adding lye to pure water and fat makes soap, but working with lye can really burn you if you're not careful. Nair actually melts the hair!

LYE!? My dad uses that in Biodiesel! (he makes it out of recylcled vegetable oil)

We run our CARS on a product that that has been used in.

and it touched my skin!? ewwwwww.

And MELTS hair!? Gross! I'm glad I switched back to the good old razor. I'd rather have a few nicks and cuts as to lye on my flesh! eek

Edited for my horrid spelling


How totally cool that your dad makes biodiesel!! He should have glycerine as the final waste product, which is good for your skin. There's definitely a market for that, when it's cleaned----like adding to soaps and lotions. There are lots of uses for glycerine. And you need the lye to get the glycerine, so lye isn't all bad.
PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2009 9:04 am


Crazy Cat Reincarnated
Glass and Metal have minimal amounts of chemicals in them, whereas plastic, be it hard or soft, is made up of hundreds of chemicals. Glass and Metal has been around forever, and there doesn't seem to be any danger in using those materials that we know of.


Ever heard of Lead poisoning. Some types of glass contain lead. Some metals are associated with neurological issues. Using the right metal and right glass is fine, but don't just assume all is well cause it has been around a long time. Lead Poisoning is associated with some of the madness in rich families in the Middle ages and renessance as they drank from lead cups while the poor drank from wood or ceramic.

Of course some types of wood aren't best, and some ceramics can contain lead as well.


Back to Guardasil. Much of the clinical information comes from Europe which typically has different strains than in the US. So it is unclear how much good it does. Risk of HPV related issues increases with each new parter. So no, or a single parter is the safest, and doesn't require a needle.


luulamax
...make friends with pharmaceutical companies and push their drugs on their patients.


Actually it is because pharmaceutical companies are the ones with the budget for research and pushing the doctors. The doctors are trained to look at research. When most research is pushed to them by pharmaceutical companies, what do you expect.

Doctors tend not to be as informed beause there is too much to know. We produce more research in a year now that was known about the human body in 1900. It is not just hard to keep up on every aspect of medicine, it is impossible.

Sorry for the longwinded rant.

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