bleach baths??

[dolf]

http://www.newscientist.com/article...e-protective-effect-on-skin.html#.UpylzqdFDIU

So suggests a discovery that highly diluted household bleach inhibits inflammation in the skin, a finding that might help protect skin from sun exposure, radiation therapy and even the natural ageing process.

Don't try it at home, but doctors have known for decades that bathing in diluted bleach helps alleviate severe eczema. "But no one really knew why," says Thomas Leung, a dermatologist at Stanford University in California. Many thought the antimicrobial properties of bleach kept the skin clean, and therefore less irritated.

"But we weren't fully convinced – the solution doctors use is so dilute that it isn't fully antiseptic," Leung says. The typical concentration used, just 0.005 per cent, is weaker than the amount you would find in swimming pool water.

Leung suspected that bleach might also be involved in stemming inflammation. An inflammatory response is vital for fighting infection but can cause damage when it spirals out of control – as it does in eczema.

 

[butters]

's all about the balance? most stuff is

 

[Fata Morgana]

Stick with Badedas eh Butters?

 

[phrodeau]

Sounds like homeopathy to me.

 

[cleaver]

an almost homeopathic amount of bleach in soaking water
has helped cure athletes foot (a fungal affliction)
for ages

it was a regular regimen during high school football
more than many years ago...

 

[butters]

Stick with Badedas eh Butters?

works for me; i've never had eczema so that proves it works, right? right

 

[Chainzz]

Sounds a bit painful , should one have scratches or cuts on your body...
Also, since I have tattoos, would I need color safe bleach?

 

[pink]

A little bit wouldn't hurt anything.

 

[Liar]

I'm white enough, thankyouverymuch.

 

[warrior queen]

There's a strange show on late at night called My Strange Addiction, and the one time I sat and watched it there was a lady on there that bathed in pure bleach for years.
I seem to remember a doctor wondering why she wasn't dead.

The second half of the show was about another lady who ate laundry powder.

There's a reason why I don't normally watch tv......

 

[BotanyBoy]

an almost homeopathic amount of bleach in soaking water
has helped cure athletes foot (a fungal affliction)
for ages

it was a regular regimen during high school football
more than many years ago...

Hell yea...that's Army SOP too, helps keep the crotch rot/jungle booty at bay too.

Avoid public pools near/on military bases...it's where the grunts go to kill the itch.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Sounds like homeopathy to me.

No, that would involve bathing in a diluted solution of . . . a different white substance.

Oh, wait, you said homeopathy . . .

 

[FGB]

I don't know about all of that shit but...


A 1/3-1/2 cup of bleach in 4" of bath water will kill the hell out of seed ticks and Red bugs!

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I been trying it. My skin gets really dry in the winter. Maybe it will make a difference. The half a cup of body lotion after couldn't hurt.

 

[CandiCame]

I don't know about all of that shit but...


A 1/3-1/2 cup of bleach in 4" of bath water will kill the hell out of seed ticks and Red bugs!

It's weird that you say that because my grandpa was talking about that recently trying to get me to bath my dog in bleach. I'm not gonna do that. Don't care how safe the elderly say it is.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I used to take my dog to the beach. The salt water was hell on fleas.

 

[snugglestruggle]

Bleach is so caustic it kills everything it comes in contact with. I use it in a spray bottle to kill weeds.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Bleach is so caustic it kills everything it comes in contact with. I use it in a spray bottle to kill weeds.

You should try weed killer but don't use it on your whites.

 

[doowdniw]

Have used a diluted solution to treat skin rash from poison ivy in the past. It actually worked quite well. Bleach, not weed killer.