# Dangers from full strength hydrogen peroxide?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangers-from-full-strength-hydrogen-peroxide/394196>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangers-from-full-strength-hydrogen-peroxide/394196 "2007-03-01T19:29:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangers-from-full-strength-hydrogen-peroxide/394196/21 "2007-03-03T01:35:46Z")

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[QUOTE=snailboy]  
Out of curiosity, how does hydrogen peroxide taste?  
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Not great, but you get used to it.

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**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangers-from-full-strength-hydrogen-peroxide/394196/22 "2007-03-03T07:03:56Z")

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Yuck, the smell/taste of hydrogen peroxide reminds me of ickiness… Perhaps because I’ve always associated it with cuts and scrapes but to me, it tastes like how I would think wounds taste. Gross.

If you don’t like the burn of Listerine, get some of the newer Crest Pro-Health rinse. It uses CPC instead of alcohol so there’s no unpleasant burn (just a slightly unpleasant aftertaste but you get used to that too).

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