Re: Quicklime
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on June 21, 2001 at 15:53:54:
In reply to: Re: Quicklime posted by Kenzi on June 21, 2001 at 15:39:42:
: I was very excited about this discovery until Catherine reminded me: that the active ingredient was quick lime which is used to decompose
: bodies in mass graves. Seems like it would be pretty bad for your
: skin
It's not any better for your skin than ammonia! Have you ever seen a
bricklayer's hands?
Was reading a anthro's wife's report of living in Morocco and she had
to help the women whitewash the house. The rest of the women were
slapping and smoothing the whitewash with their bare hands ... and the
American had to ditch out after 20 minutes because the (slaked lime)
whitewash was stinging, literally eating her hands. The women used to
hard farm work weren't having a problem, as their hands were so
calloused with life-long rough jobs! The bad American got regularly
scorned as being soft and useless.
Many of the indigenous henna techniques work ok on indigenous women
and NOT suburban westernized *soft* women .....
if you've ever put in a summer of work on a farm, in a horse barn, or
boot camp .... you know your skin reacts to abrasion by toughening up!
Not like twiddling a mouse about all day....
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