A few days ago, I slept wrong and managed to badly strain a muscle in my neck. This hasn’t made hunching over a keyboard at work particularly entertaining, especially since I’m putting in overtime. So here’s what my evening today has been like:
-Stagger home
-Look for food, decide that nothing particularly appeals
-Get into shower so I can apply heat to my neck
-Wash hair
-Squirt Dr. Bronner’s peppermint soap onto washcloth
-Let some water get onto the washcloth to generate suds
-Soap up
-Stand with my back toward the spray
-Stay there for a while so my neck loosens up a little
-Feel odd tingly sensation around my upper chest (and not in the good way)
-Rinse off
-Turn off water, get out of shower
-Grab towel, start drying off
-Shriek as the fluffy cotton hits my skin
-Put on glasses, look in mirror
-See huge red welts on my chest
Apparently when Dr. Bronner sez “Dilute! Dilute! OK!” he really means it. I’m guessing that some full-strength soap ended up remaining on the washcloth and then sat there on my skin for several minutes.
Lemme tell ya, I’m thiiis close to taping pieces of gauze over my nipples to try to stop my t-shirt from irritating them.
Of course, I don’t actually have any gauze. And even if I did have gauze, the tape would then end up ripping out chest hair when I removed it.
Crap.
Maybe I should work on building up nipple calluses or something.
Well, give some thought to what would have happened if you’d soaped up your unmentionables with that stuff. And then vow never ever to use that product again.
I bought my girlfriend some Lush Freeze Shower Gel. Its very very minty. And when she scrubbed my chest with some to see if it would help decongest my headcold, I discovered that it can trickle down and cause a VERY noticeable tingling sensation. If it had been strong enough to cause skin burns on the chest… :eek: :eek: :eek:
The “F*@king Ow!” tells you it’s working. I think that would make a great slogan. I bought some Gold Bond extra strength powder and sprinkled some in my manly area after drying off from a shower. It tingles. A lot. After a bit it was like the sensation of a mouthful of listerine but without the ability to spit.
I’ve used undiluted Dr. Bronner’s everywhere – sensitive areas included, without any apparent ill effect. Maybe some people are just more sensitive than others?
Mint is bad for your skin. It’s a monumental irritant and doesn’t provide any benefits that I know of (other than smelling nice). If you like the smell, I think it’s better to have mint *near * you, not rub it into your skin.
On reading the OP I was gonna post that I must be the toughest SOB in the world, because I put Bronner’s right on my naughty bits. I likes the tingle. But I see others are just as tough as me. So wait. Does that make all of us the toughest SOBs in the world?
I prefer the term “delicate flower”, thankyouverymuch.
Actually, I’ve been using Dr. Bronner’s for years, and this is the first time this sort of thing has happened. I guess I was never in a scenario where the full-strength soap stayed on my skin for a long time.
Soap? Tingling sensations? Let me tell you a little story.
A colleague of mine was once supervising a lock down. He was carrying a sprayer of CS gas. When a prisoner refused to come out of his cell, he would spray him, wait a minute, then have the officers carry him out while the prisoner was incapacitated.
Now my colleague noticed that his sprayer had a small pin hole leak and every time he used it, a few drops would squirt out and land on his hand. But CS isn’t really all the bad in small quantities as long as you keep it relatively dry and cool, so he just kept on working.
But my colleague told me that of all the decisions he’s made in his twenty five year career, the one he regrets the most was not washing his hands before he took a break to use the urinal.
Yep. I’m not sure why people think Dr. Bronners is good for your skin. If it hurts you, that’s probably a sign it’s not real great for it. Mint is notoriously irritating to the skin, as is just about anything that makes it feel tingly.