Re: Other things like henna?
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on March 14, 2000 at 08:26:47:
In Reply to: Re: Other things like henna? posted by James on March 13, 2000 at 22:37:02:
Iodine is hard to work with. Drippy. It doesn't penetrate all that
well, either, and the color isn't thrilling.
Iodine seems to be one of the constituents in walnut that stains....
a leap off topic here .....from a book I inherited from my
Grandmother, written about 120 years ago ... It recommended that
dutiful mothers check their sleeping sons at night and see if their
hands were somewhere that indicated that they were "practicing self
abuse". If hands were in an ungodly place, the mothers should go back
night after night and put spots of iodine on them to stain them ....
and convince the children that "self abuse" was leading to a horrible
disease. My grandmother had that chapter bookmarked.....
