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Three nights ago I noticed that after washing my hands they felt really sticky, almost like when you use the last paper towel on the roll and you get that glue residue on your hands. However, it wasn't the last paper towel so I figured maybe the liquid soap was really old and doing funky things so I rewashed with dish soap and again grabbed a paper towel. Once again, my hands got sticky as I dried them off. Thinking now that there was something wrong with these paper towels, I washed again and this time dried with a hand towel only to yet again find my hands sticky as they dried off. The stickiness only lasts 30-60 seconds, until the skin completely dries, but during that in-between time of soaking wet and totally dry they feel very tacky to the touch and my fingers will actually stick to each other.
The next day when I took a shower I noticed that the water was beading up on the skin on my arms. Sure enough, when I dried off afterwards I found that all of my skin is tacky to the thouch until it is completely air dried.
Today I shaved my legs and my skin felt almost like it had a layer of wax on it that kept catching the razor. The skin on my hands seems to be getting more sticky when they get wet. Water continues to bead on my skin when it gets wet. I asked my children if they can feel that my skin is sticky to the touch and they said yes.
This is affecting all of my skin now, including my face. I always put a moisturizer on my face after washing and it does not feel like my skin is absorbing it now, it just feels heavy and greasy since the lotion just sits there on top. I also tried putting lotion on my hands and it was not absorbed at all, just left my hands feeling very slimy and greasy so I wiped it off.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this or have any suggestions for what might be causing it? Thanks for any held you can give.
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May 18, 2011 - 3:37amList...please forgive the typos.
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So glad I found this site. Thank you everyone! I, Chriz, read up to page 12 along with page 16, and the earlier posts probably apply more to me.
Here's the timeline and details:
Apartment had brown water for 1 day about May 1, maybe as late as May 6.
On or about May 10th had an intuitive feeling about mold testing...because (a) I had been feeling lethargic (b) recalled the *sound* of a persistent drip --behind wall and between wall and concrete-- between apts about a year ago in corner of living room (c) was 'attracted' to Mold Test Kit in Home Depot; yup drawn to an endcap display...(LOL)
Then tub began leaking, then almost running but dealt with it for about 3 days...too busy to call it in.
May 14th saw Water Department rep at complex, apparently to check on previous "brown" water complaint's resolution.
That same day Maintenance turned off water at shutoff valve, but water still leaking. [MOLD]
Also noticed jackhammer crew working in front of next building. [DIRT DISTURBED?]
May 15th, ankles really itchy and noticed strange, never-had-before waxy buildup/'film' on nose.
May 16th, film on nose thicker.
May 18th, water in that bathroom turned back on and faucet repaired at 4pm--WD 40 had been used to loosen faucet. At 5pm cleaning the tracks of a window that is just 2 feet away from my possible 'mold' corner.
May 19th, 1am, faucet tested...hands dried...hands REALLY STICKY!!!! [PAPER TOWELS?]
Assumed it was WD40 issue. Ran (and ran and ran) water to clear. Kept washing hands but still sticky. Cleaned faucets with 3 different spray cleaners assuming I was touching and contaminating them during hand washing. Used other water sources to wash hands. Used paper towels (Bounty Basic) to dry; used cloth towels to dry. Used different hand soap to wash hands; used Windex on hands; used Fantastic; used bleach and water; used Fantastic with Bleach; Finally used Comet Cleanser on hands and got some relief!
This came on very suddenly!!! It doesn't feel like a medical (thyroid, allergy) condition. I have had a few strange things that MIGHT be related, but my gut says whatever happened it happened today. My hands, when damp (not wet and not dry) are sticky!
My suspects are:
(1) Mold from behind wall or window tracks?...back to HD to get those test kits!
(2) Serratia marcescens bacteria in the hot water heater?...that would be the building's...I guess I have to hope that the Water Department will accept a sample from me and test for free. (I heard they didn't even want to come out to investigate the brown water initially!!)
(3) Bounty BASIC paper towels?...I don't think so because I didn't get any relief from cotton towels but they are "new" paper towels from this manufacturer [ROSIN?]
4) Some bug bite on my ankles?...but I don't see anything there, don't have any bugs, don't recall any bites, and that symptom seems a bit removed from the sudden onset.
5) Or just WD40 that has contaminated all our faucets? I wrote to the company to inquire but I don't think spraying it, even excessively, on pipes and faucets provides a delivery vehicle to water supply itself.
I offer all of this as a 'clue.' If I figure anything out, I'll repost.
(As for the survey you can create a free Zoomerang survey that people can take in order to collect data. But it could only be for 100 responses (submissions) at a time. Just fyi.)
May 18, 2011 - 2:20amThis Comment
Hi friends! If anyone tests positive for a Staph Infection, can you please let me know?? I'm curious if we have that in common. I'm battling a Methicillin Resistant Staph Epidermidis Infection (MRSE)... I'm sick & in pain all over & I believe it's also the cause of my sticky skin from the inside out. Please provide an update of your lab results if you get any that say STAPH. Thank you!!!!!
May 15, 2011 - 10:23pmThis Comment
kacha again, sorry about posting the above comment twice, dont know why that happened...
May 15, 2011 - 1:57pmI forgot, the most inmoptant thing and that was i meant to say to anonymous that soaking in saline water made our sticky skin much worse... salt was on of the worts things whe tried actually....migth be different for u but be careful....
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What probably bugs people most, are components that are formed in and on the skin by a large set of organisms.
The skin is the largest organ of the body and much secretion is the case.
LPS (lipo-poly-sacharides) starch, sebum, etc etc.
One rational attempt to deplete plastic like components from the skin is by using sodium hypochlorite (Clorox)
Also a mix with sodium hypochlorite and citric acid(lemon acid) can be tried.
Citric acid can be found as a coffee and wash machine decalcifier in the supermarket.
The Pfizer protocol indicates that you add one cup Clorox to a 30 minute warm bath, every day, for about fourteen day's.
You also can add a few spoons citric acid to one cup of Clorox and add this to your bath.
Tip: If you have no access to a bath, you can make a suspension in a plastic bottle and use it as you like.
The trick is that you softly scrub with a soft wash cloth, or scrub glove, except where skin repair takes place.
Prolong penetration.
Also a Classic alkaline rich soap bar like Dettol (the yellow colored/UK version/chloroxylenol containing soap) is a good choice.
Classic soap needs to be turned into a thick foamy lather, and the lather must be allowed to penetrate the skin for a few minutes before it is rinsed off.
Also soaking in a bath with a Classic bath salt can be useful.
Use (sea) salt if you like.
Avoid modern protein based skin products, or check out if they are with the potential to clean, not clog the skin.
Skin should feel a little "tacky" after a shower and/or bath.
To cream back is only rational if the skin "pulls" or shows other signs of being dried out.
Per definition you can obtain a good balance with classic alkaline soap bars and it would cost you not much more than $1.50 per bar. Sea salt, or salt (sodium chloride) will cost less.
Only soak/scrub sound skin, thus avoid touching skin lesions.
Skin lesions can best be protected with a plaster until healed.
Optimal hand hygiene should regularly include a surgical scrub, this means: scrub with classic soap from the top of your fingers to about half way above the elbow.
Dry hands thoroughly.
Do not share bath towels.
Regularly clean all sanitary provision.
Give extra attention to the nails.
May 12, 2011 - 5:11amGive extra attention to the feet.
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HI. thanks for the advise.
May 14, 2011 - 10:25pmum , I've tried soaking in vinegar, it didn't work What i noticed is, when i just wash with water, the stickiness seems to lessen but there still has this dried oil film that can't come off with just water. When I use any soap/ detergent/ liquid body wash/ even Cetaphil , it seems to get stickier in a way it creates a film over the dried oil layer.
Then I tried it adding vinegar to soap/ detergent etc, it created a gooey film that won't wash off with soap/ detergent. It seems like the soap/body wash residue bound with the oil layer?
When washing with water only, the water tub get this powdery like feel on the rim of where the water level ends.
What do you think? will soaking in saline water work to remove it?
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Oh dear oh dear...hey anonymous!
May 15, 2011 - 1:50pmI recognise your dilemmas, from the time I first got sticky about ten years ago...(this is kacha, read my earlier posts)) I had exposure to some kind of glue from an old sticker and all the family members eventually got affected with a type of sticky film on our skin. We tried to wash it of with everything we could think of, nothing helped.... except time... But at the time this happened we did actually get advise from a chemist to soak in "painting soda" i dont know the rigth name for it in english,but the idea was that it was alchalic and might work as a solvent for he residue on our skins... Since an anonymous person above was talking about soaking in clorox, I wanted to bring this up...I did not ever dare to try it cause I got severe ecsema from the stickynes, but my mom did, but got no result...guess it was not the right solvent, or, it spread itself again since it is hard to soak your entire body and face...
For all these years I´ve been thinking abot what happens when we get exposure to chemicals and they wont wash of...and why they dont...I think you would need close contact with both a chemist (to actually have a shot at finding the Right solvent for whatever it is you have got stuck on you skin) and a skindoctor to get result, cause experimenting with all kinds of thing can make it worse, or even spread it more... our stickyness spread via oil and sweat, and touching the same objects, so on, that was the scary part of it. I am afraid that once you get weird chemical reactions on yur skin and residues of the kind you descibe, or the kind i was exposed to, you have to consider that it probaably has soaked into you pores and therefore is very hard to get rid of....My personal theori is that both the residue itself, but also a response from the immune system to the eventually toxic components of such things might be the thing causing the sticky film to stay on for so long... Since the skin renews itself every six weeks or so i think the cells that are beeing new produced gets " programmed" to be sticky too...sund like a horror moveie, but thats the only thing i can think of why it would keep beeing sticky when skin renews itself, maybee Im not making sence but i have actually discussed this with a chemist who has done a lot of research on the "cocktail effects" of chemicals and low dose exposure of chemicals and found out that even in very very small doses, and in combination with other substances, a relatively unharmful chemichal can cerate really harmful effects....For me this has been an eye opener to what we are putting on our bodies, and I would recommend NEVER to use produts that contains plastic components and other unnatural stuff ( many many shampoos and soaps and lotions do!) cause if you have bad luck the chanses are you will have a bad combination of products... Also NEVER use old products since chemicals age over time and may and may easier react in combination and create this horror moveie-like experiences it is when a sobstance spreads itself creating changes in skin and wont come off for years... take care using ONLY natural stuff on yor skin and for cleaning your home etc...is my advise.
The good thing is that time will eventually make your residue come of I think, if you dont get any luck trying solvents...Im sorry I dont have any better suggestions for solvents... try to talk to a chemist before you do anything...maybe call a lab and ask, they are used to get stuff on them and what to use to get rid of it... the person who suggested painting soda was a chemical lab worker...but it didnt help so.. worth a try even though
Since hot water seems to be the thing for you that dont get it worse, keep doing that.... thats what I did and after about two years it almost disappered for me... i used only water and tryied to wash the more sticky parts of the body separately to not, "spread it all around all the time" used cotton swabs to wash different parts carefully bit by bit evry time i showered and threw them away afterwords using new onces every time... after 2 yers it got better and then almost disappeared when i put natural rose oil lotion on...this would not work earlier on since it just stayed on top of the film , but after 2 years the stickyness was so much better that the rose lotion i think cold actualy soak in and then help teh skin cells back to normal via nutrion i think.
i also would like to know if the person who wrote anonymous about the chlorox has personal experience with it, and why chlorox would work as a solvent? whe dont know WHAT it is causing the sticky residue, for some of us maybe bacteria, for some of us a actuall chemical residue, for some of us maybe a change in skin structure, or components of the sweat, the comment you made about poly stach and sugars and proteins was very interesting...
I have had my sticky skin come back after new contact with chemicals but only parts of my body and i have been thinking it is for me now a pure allergic reaction a sensitivity bacause of the first exposure/accident, and I was thinking that i t might be starch or sugars from an overactive immune responce in the skin that makes the stickyness now...that, however does not explain why the skin is sticky when newly washed where you would have washed of the sugary staches or whatever that comes out...nope more sticky after washing...I therefore think it is a change in skin structure also, for me...
the theories abot bacteria and mold are also interessting, but why my episodes starts of after contact with chemicals does not make sense with the mold/ bacteria theorie,,. perhaps if the chemical reactionimmune response it self results in a change in microflora on the skin makeing a good environment for bacteria that produce sticky residue...puh... end of theory thinking for now, just end up in cirkels, wishing i was chemist my self or coud look in a microscope.
just want to find aot whats wrong and get a cure...
I feel for u anonymous with the residue, and hope yousrs resolve faster than mine did! do water and cotton swab til the body pusches it away itself...it might disppear after six weeks when the skin is renewed...I hope so!
Not every chemical is as nigtmarish and spreads itself as easy as our did...but whe need to not be silent when this happenes since whe need toa raise awereness about how distrustful many of the chemicals in our environments and homes are.
keep in contact for support.
and diane ande the rest of you, thinking about you, even though i dont write often due to lack of energy from my ME diagnose.) did you try the vit E treatment or was the side affects to many? Im on high dose vit D now since my doctor discovered I i had very low values of that. Maybe that will help, helps the immune system supposedly... we will see...
And please anonomuus with the chlorox trewtment, keep in contact you too, and could you please explain you theories a little bit more?since you seem knowledgeable about chemistry and skin?
Sincerely
Kacha
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Hi. I've finally figured out why the VCO can't wash off and why my skin became sticky. First here, is that after my hair with the vco was exposed to warm water during shampooing and rinsing, it turned into waxy form after. My hair literally feels like there's wax on it rather than oil. The water that ran down from my hair, and unto my body, somehow , it the vco goes with it and it seems to be embedded onto my skin , nails , and everything it comes in contact with; that includes the bathroom floor tiles , which has got the same sticky waxy feel I got on my skin.
July 24, 2011 - 10:07amThe stickiness becomes stickier every time I wash with soap and shampoo, and warm water. That's because , the soap and shampoo somehow is attracted to the vco film surface that's embedded on my hair and skin. The oil turned waxy film in itself becomes sticky with warm temperature ( based on my observation). That's also the reason why when my body and hair is submerged in water, bubbles form and they're not the usual kind of bubbles that we see with soap. These are bubbles that doesn't burst unless the water is gone. I touched it with my fingers, and it moves without bursting!. Now for the reason it's not washing off from my hair and skin, it's because the soap and shampoo is actually just on that film's surface. It's not washing my hair and skin at all. That vco film that turned waxy after the first warm water exposure, it actually made my skin waterproof and hardcoated. To explain this, here's the incident. During those very sticky weeks, I tried using the bathtub , submerged myself in water, after 3 hours, my fingers and toes are not wrinkled at all. Normally, it will only take about 30 minutes for human skin to wrinkle when it is constantly in water. Aside from that, I hardly feel cold and can withstand cold temperature without wearing jacket, when usually, it takes me only 15 to 20 minutes in an airconditioned room, my hands would already be ice cold and I'd already be wearing a jacket. As for the hardcoat part, here's the incident. Again, during the very sticky weeks, I realized that no matter how hard I scratch my skin, it doesn't even get scratches and skin breaks; when my usual was, even just slight bump or scratch, I'd already be getting cuts and scraped skin from scratching.
Definitely it is not my skin or hair that has got a skin / hair condition. It definitely is that VCO film. Somehow, its structure changed when exposed to warm water/ temperature. I also noticed that with cold water,my hair, skin , lips, teeth, nails, becomes less shiny and less sticky. I later on realized that my teeth has got that film too, from whenever I drink something hot, those on the lips goes with the warm water and got stuck onto my teeth ( my teeth look extremely glossy gleaming . highly unusually. even my dentist was quite surprised to see that ). Thus I continued with that until after about 6 weeks, that's the time I can at least scrape the surface layer off.
Second thing here is, I realized that the layers of that film over my hair , skin, lips, nails, it seems it is whichever many times of warm water exposure I have, that's the number of layers on me. This was because those on my lips, after12 days of being able to scrape some off daily, the film finally feels thinner and I can almost feel my lips and much less waxy feel. From a scale of 1 to 10. I'd say now it's about 1 -2 ).
Definitely it's still coated on my hair. It still feels like plastic , literally like a plastic bag's texture when it is wet. When dry, about 8 weeks back, it still feels waxy to rubbery, and I can literally hear squeaking sound when tried to comb with my fingers. Now, it's a little better, the plastiky feel is somewhat minimally less, and my hair can now sway a little like normal hair does.
Second thing is, initially I thought that vco oily turned waxy film coated on me from head to toe, I thought it made my nails brittle. Then few weeks ago, I realized that what chipped off after trimming my nails is not my nails chipping at all. It's actually that hardened vco layer that's embedded already on my entire body, it chipped off from my nails surface. I realized this because after I pulled off the chipped part, I scraped off the whitish area, and took a closer look, there I saw my nails was actually intact and that what chipped off was a shinny hard layer that is definitely not human nails. After which, I noticed that my fingertips, they're thicker than my usual and that my palms' usual lines are much less visible, actually, the finer ones are almost gone. That means, that layer on my palm is quite thick. I am certain of that because I can feel that's a layer between my hands and anything I touch. It actually feels like a layer of film over the skin and whenever I rub my finger together, it literally feels and sounds like wax. Now after 3 weeks of being able to scrape some off, I can at least feel more of my skin, but definitely I know it's still there, but much less in thickness .also, now it doesn't feel and sound as waxy. It will take time to scrape everything off.
As for those of you out there who have sticky skin problem, my advise is , you have to find out the cause first. That's when you can find the solution. And , be very observant. I am very observant, that's why I was able to find the cause and how to prevent it from getting stickier.
Try to trace back what have you used that was not your usual before it happened. Another thing here is, dermatologist don't even know what to do about it. And since they don't know what to do about it, they don't have the "face" to admit that they don't know, they'd just tell you any reason they can think of or tell you you're nuts. That's what I got from the VCO company's dermatologist friend who actually has conspired with the vco company to persuade me that there's nothing stuck on my skin! That's very unethical of that woman! She did not even take a look at my skin and hair,and my gleaming shinny nails she said it's normal when I know it's not my normal. Later on, I found out that the vco company's owner already talked to her about the case and even before I walked into her clinic, she already know what to say to me, without even taking a close look !
I hope you all can find a way to eliminate the sticky thing on you. But definitely, no dermatologist will admit to you that he or she doesn't know how to fix this sticky thing. The best person to help would be someone in the chemistry field who can analyze the product you've used right before this happened to you. In my case, it was easy for me to rule out which product was it because I don't use make-up, lotions, perfumes, and so on. The only things I used are my usual shampoo which I've used for 3 years already, the same conditioner I've used for more than 5 years already, the same body wash that I've always used. The only thing I used that was new and different was the virgin coconut oil. So for those of you out there, beware vco brands. Buy the ones that are trusted brands and quality. I got mine at a drugstore because the ones sold on stalls are closed already. Unfortunately, that day, the only brand available at that drugstore was this one that caused me this much trouble. I surely regret I bought that because I got lazy to just squeeze out the coconut milk from the coconut meat, which I've done so since growing up years and never caused me problem such as this.
So there people, beware. I can't mention the brand I bought. But I know it is being exported also to US.
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Oh dear oh dear...hey anonymous!
May 15, 2011 - 1:49pmI recognise your dilemmas, from the time I first got sticky about ten years ago...(this is kacha, read my earlier posts)) I had exposure to some kind of glue from an old sticker and all the family members eventually got affected with a type of sticky film on our skin. We tried to wash it of with everything we could think of, nothing helped.... except time... But at the time this happened we did actually get advise from a chemist to soak in "painting soda" i dont know the rigth name for it in english,but the idea was that it was alchalic and might work as a solvent for he residue on our skins... Since an anonymous person above was talking about soaking in clorox, I wanted to bring this up...I did not ever dare to try it cause I got severe ecsema from the stickynes, but my mom did, but got no result...guess it was not the right solvent, or, it spread itself again since it is hard to soak your entire body and face...
For all these years I´ve been thinking abot what happens when we get exposure to chemicals and they wont wash of...and why they dont...I think you would need close contact with both a chemist (to actually have a shot at finding the Right solvent for whatever it is you have got stuck on you skin) and a skindoctor to get result, cause experimenting with all kinds of thing can make it worse, or even spread it more... our stickyness spread via oil and sweat, and touching the same objects, so on, that was the scary part of it. I am afraid that once you get weird chemical reactions on yur skin and residues of the kind you descibe, or the kind i was exposed to, you have to consider that it probaably has soaked into you pores and therefore is very hard to get rid of....My personal theori is that both the residue itself, but also a response from the immune system to the eventually toxic components of such things might be the thing causing the sticky film to stay on for so long... Since the skin renews itself every six weeks or so i think the cells that are beeing new produced gets " programmed" to be sticky too...sund like a horror moveie, but thats the only thing i can think of why it would keep beeing sticky when skin renews itself, maybee Im not making sence but i have actually discussed this with a chemist who has done a lot of research on the "cocktail effects" of chemicals and low dose exposure of chemicals and found out that even in very very small doses, and in combination with other substances, a relatively unharmful chemichal can cerate really harmful effects....For me this has been an eye opener to what we are putting on our bodies, and I would recommend NEVER to use produts that contains plastic components and other unnatural stuff ( many many shampoos and soaps and lotions do!) cause if you have bad luck the chanses are you will have a bad combination of products... Also NEVER use old products since chemicals age over time and may and may easier react in combination and create this horror moveie-like experiences it is when a sobstance spreads itself creating changes in skin and wont come off for years... take care using ONLY natural stuff on yor skin and for cleaning your home etc...is my advise.
The good thing is that time will eventually make your residue come of I think, if you dont get any luck trying solvents...Im sorry I dont have any better suggestions for solvents... try to talk to a chemist before you do anything...maybe call a lab and ask, they are used to get stuff on them and what to use to get rid of it... the person who suggested painting soda was a chemical lab worker...but it didnt help so.. worth a try even though
Since hot water seems to be the thing for you that dont get it worse, keep doing that.... thats what I did and after about two years it almost disappered for me... i used only water and tryied to wash the more sticky parts of the body separately to not, "spread it all around all the time" used cotton swabs to wash different parts carefully bit by bit evry time i showered and threw them away afterwords using new onces every time... after 2 yers it got better and then almost disappeared when i put natural rose oil lotion on...this would not work earlier on since it just stayed on top of the film , but after 2 years the stickyness was so much better that the rose lotion i think cold actualy soak in and then help teh skin cells back to normal via nutrion i think.
i also would like to know if the person who wrote anonymous about the chlorox has personal experience with it, and why chlorox would work as a solvent? whe dont know WHAT it is causing the sticky residue, for some of us maybe bacteria, for some of us a actuall chemical residue, for some of us maybe a change in skin structure, or components of the sweat, the comment you made about poly stach and sugars and proteins was very interesting...
I have had my sticky skin come back after new contact with chemicals but only parts of my body and i have been thinking it is for me now a pure allergic reaction a sensitivity bacause of the first exposure/accident, and I was thinking that i t might be starch or sugars from an overactive immune responce in the skin that makes the stickyness now...that, however does not explain why the skin is sticky when newly washed where you would have washed of the sugary staches or whatever that comes out...nope more sticky after washing...I therefore think it is a change in skin structure also, for me...
the theories abot bacteria and mold are also interessting, but why my episodes starts of after contact with chemicals does not make sense with the mold/ bacteria theorie,,. perhaps if the chemical reactionimmune response it self results in a change in microflora on the skin makeing a good environment for bacteria that produce sticky residue...puh... end of theory thinking for now, just end up in cirkels, wishing i was chemist my self or coud look in a microscope.
just want to find aot whats wrong and get a cure...
I feel for u anonymous with the residue, and hope yousrs resolve faster than mine did! do water and cotton swab til the body pusches it away itself...it might disppear after six weeks when the skin is renewed...I hope so!
Not every chemical is as nigtmarish and spreads itself as easy as our did...but whe need to not be silent when this happenes since whe need toa raise awereness about how distrustful many of the chemicals in our environments and homes are.
keep in contact for support.
and diane ande the rest of you, thinking about you, even though i dont write often due to lack of energy from my ME diagnose.) did you try the vit E treatment or was the side affects to many? Im on high dose vit D now since my doctor discovered I i had very low values of that. Maybe that will help, helps the immune system supposedly... we will see...
And please anonomuus with the chlorox trewtment, keep in contact you too, and could you please explain you theories a little bit more?since you seem knowledgeable about chemistry and skin?
Sincerely
Kacha
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thanks for your advise. i'll try to search what is the painting soda you're referring to.
May 15, 2011 - 8:27pmSo far, i noticed, with just water, like for example, soaking my feet into a pail of water, there seems to be some residue lifting off? because the where the water level ends ,there's be something powdery residue on it. I'm thinking, if that is the soap/ body wash residue, when it comes off, then the oil layer can come off easier with either oil-to-oil removal or other methods.
I've been thinking about finding a chemist but I don't know any.
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