OK, it tells you on the tin to only use it on your legs but I liberally 'masked' bits with Vaseline and had a good blast of Veet Mousse, last night.
Well, I wasn't gonna go welding a razor on my bits, with the state of my vision, at the moment.
Anyroad, this morning, it feels like I have sat on a bloody hot coal. Jack and Danny are not amused.
With nothing else to hand, am slathering on the Canesten cream.. anyone got any better suggestions? Please?
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Not a nice place to have a rash at all.
How does Fuller's earth work?
Question
My baby is ten months old and is teething. She had quite a sore bum, I used Sudocream and left the nappy off at times, but it wasn't doing any good. I went to my pharmacist and she sold me a packet of fullers earth powder and said just to sprinkle it on. It worked marvelously but I would like to know how it works as there is no instructions on the packet. And why haven't I read about fullers earth before?
Answer
I have been trying to find more information for you - with little success I'm sorry to say. Fuller's earth is one of those 'natural' remedies I've heard of but never used or recommended myself. It's been around for many years and can be obtained as a powder or in a cream form. It is known to be a highly absorbent substance and I suspect it's this property that helped it to clear up your baby’s nappy rash so effectively. Simple nappy rash is caused by chemicals in urine and faeces irritating the skin they come into contact with. If you sprinkled the Fuller's earth directly onto your baby's bottom then it would have absorbed some of the urine and faeces she produced, thereby reducing any chemical irritation of the skin and so allowing the nappy rash to improve.
I suspect the reason you've never heard of Fuller's earth before is that the company who produce it gave up advertising the product years ago, but if you’ve found it works so well you should spread the word to all your friends with babies!
Yours sincerely
The NetDoctor Medical Team
(not affliiated to me - but you can still tell me, I'm not a doctor :-)
How does Fuller's earth work?
Question
My baby is ten months old and is teething. She had quite a sore bum, I used Sudocream and left the nappy off at times, but it wasn't doing any good. I went to my pharmacist and she sold me a packet of fullers earth powder and said just to sprinkle it on. It worked marvelously but I would like to know how it works as there is no instructions on the packet. And why haven't I read about fullers earth before?
Answer
I have been trying to find more information for you - with little success I'm sorry to say. Fuller's earth is one of those 'natural' remedies I've heard of but never used or recommended myself. It's been around for many years and can be obtained as a powder or in a cream form. It is known to be a highly absorbent substance and I suspect it's this property that helped it to clear up your baby’s nappy rash so effectively. Simple nappy rash is caused by chemicals in urine and faeces irritating the skin they come into contact with. If you sprinkled the Fuller's earth directly onto your baby's bottom then it would have absorbed some of the urine and faeces she produced, thereby reducing any chemical irritation of the skin and so allowing the nappy rash to improve.
I suspect the reason you've never heard of Fuller's earth before is that the company who produce it gave up advertising the product years ago, but if you’ve found it works so well you should spread the word to all your friends with babies!
Yours sincerely
The NetDoctor Medical Team
(not affliiated to me - but you can still tell me, I'm not a doctor :-)
I know you can dig fullers earth out of the cliffs in Dorset (thinks back to A level geology field trip) as our geology teacher showed us but there again walking around the beach wearing a hard hat with hammers in June is a bit strange dodging sunbathers and all that especially when the beardy teacher keeps asking young female sunbathers if they minded his students studying the magniificent exposures as there is some exellent cleavage being exhibited. Wo there i go off on a Tangent again 
Any way Fullers earth is basically dryed clay.
FULLERS EARTH (Ger. Walkererde, Fr. terre a foulon, argue smeclique)so named from its use by fullers as an absorbent of the grease and oil of cloth,a clay-like substance, which from its variability is somewhat difficult to define. In. color it is most often greenish, olive-green or greenish-grey; on weathering it changes to a brown tint or it may bleach. As a rule it falls to pieces when placed in water and is not markedly plastic; when dry it adheres strongly to the tongue; since, however, these properties are possessed by many clays that do not exhibit detergent qualities, the only test of value lies in the capacity to absorb grease or clarify oil. Fullers earth has a specific gravity of f724, and a shining streak; it is usually unctuous to the touch. Microscopically, it consists of minute irregular-shaped particles of a mineral that appears to be the result of a chioritic or talcose alteration of a felspar. The small size of most of the grains, less than ~07 mm., makes their determination almost impossible. Chemical analysis shows that the peculiar properties of this earth are due to its physical rather than its chemical nature.
The following analyses of the weathered and unweathered condition of the earth from Nutfield, Surrey, represent the composition of one of the best known varieties: Blue Earth (dried at 100 C.).
Insoluble residue . 69~96 Insoluble residue Fe,O, 248 SiO2 - - . . 6a~8i Al,O, 346 Al,O, - . . .
CaO 587 Fe,O3 - - ~.3o MgO CaO . . . .
PlO6 027 MgO . . . .
SO3 0oS
NaCI
K20 074
hO (combined). .
Yellow Earth (dried at 100 C.).
Insoluble residue - Insoluble residue Fe303 - - - - SiOi - - -
AI2O3 Al,O1 - - - -
CaO FelOf - - - - 3~86
MgO . . CaO - - - . i86
P105 . . . . MgO - - - - I04
SO3
NaCl
K30
H20 (combined) -
(Analysis by P. G. Sanford, Geol. Mag., 1889, 6, pp. 456, 526.)
Of other published analyses, not a few show a lower silica content (j~ %, 50%), along with a higher proportion of alumina (II %, 23 %).
Fullers earth may occur on any geological horizon; at Nutfield in Surrey, England, it is in the Cretaceous formations; at Midford near Bath it is of Jurassic age; at Bala, North Wales, it occurs in Ordovician strata; in Saxony it appears to be the decomposition product of a diabasic rock. In America it is found in California in rocks ranging from Cretaceous to Pleistc~ene age; in S. Dakota, Custer county and elsewhere a yellow, gritty earth of Jurassic age is worked; in Florida and Georgia occurs a brittle, whitish earth of Oligocene age. Other deposits are worked in Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts and South Carolina.
Fullers earth is either mined or dug in the open according to local circumstances. It is then dried in the sun or by artificial heat and transported in small lumps in sacks. In other cases it is ground to a fine powder after being dried; or it is first roughly ground and made into a slurry with water, which is allowed to carry off the finer from the coarser particles and deposit them in a creamy state in suitable tanks. After consolidation this fine material is dried artificially on drying floors, broken into lumps, and packed for transport. The use of fullers earth for cleansing wool and cloth has greatly decreased, but the demand for the material is as great or greater than it ever was. It is now used very largely in the filtration of mineral oils, and also for decolourizing certain vegetable oils. It is employed in the formation of certain soaps and cleansing preparations.
The term Fullers Earth has a special significance in geology, for it was applied by W. Smith in 1799 to certain clays in the neighbouihood of Bath, and the use of the expression is still retained by English geologists, either in this form or in the generalized Fullonian. The Fullonian lies at the base of the Great Oolite or Bathonian series, but its palaeontological characters place it between that series and the underlying Inferior Oolite. The zonal fossils are Perisphinctes arbustigerus and Macrocephalus subcontract us with Ostrea acuminala, Rhynchonella concinna and Goniomya angulifera. The formation is in part the equivalent of the Vesulien of J. Marcou (Vesoul in Haute-Sane). In Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, where it is best developed, it is represented by an Upper Fullers Earth Clay, the Fullers Earth Rock (an impersistent earthy limestone, usually fossiliferous), and the Lower Fullers Earth Clay. Commercial fullers earth has been obtained only from the Upper Clay. In eastern Gloucestershire and northern Oxfordshire the Fullers Earth passes downwards without break into the Inferior Oolite; northward it dies out about Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire and passes laterally into the Stonesfield Slates series; in the midland counties it may perhaps be represented by the Upper Estuarine Series. In parts of Dorsetshire the clays have been used for brickmaking and the limestone (rock) for local buildings.
See H. B. Woodward, Jurassic Rocks of Great Britain, vol.
iv. (1894), Mem. Geol. Survey (London). ~J. A. H.]
NCB Being really really Dull zzzzzz
Any way Fullers earth is basically dryed clay.
FULLERS EARTH (Ger. Walkererde, Fr. terre a foulon, argue smeclique)so named from its use by fullers as an absorbent of the grease and oil of cloth,a clay-like substance, which from its variability is somewhat difficult to define. In. color it is most often greenish, olive-green or greenish-grey; on weathering it changes to a brown tint or it may bleach. As a rule it falls to pieces when placed in water and is not markedly plastic; when dry it adheres strongly to the tongue; since, however, these properties are possessed by many clays that do not exhibit detergent qualities, the only test of value lies in the capacity to absorb grease or clarify oil. Fullers earth has a specific gravity of f724, and a shining streak; it is usually unctuous to the touch. Microscopically, it consists of minute irregular-shaped particles of a mineral that appears to be the result of a chioritic or talcose alteration of a felspar. The small size of most of the grains, less than ~07 mm., makes their determination almost impossible. Chemical analysis shows that the peculiar properties of this earth are due to its physical rather than its chemical nature.
The following analyses of the weathered and unweathered condition of the earth from Nutfield, Surrey, represent the composition of one of the best known varieties: Blue Earth (dried at 100 C.).
Insoluble residue . 69~96 Insoluble residue Fe,O, 248 SiO2 - - . . 6a~8i Al,O, 346 Al,O, - . . .
CaO 587 Fe,O3 - - ~.3o MgO CaO . . . .
PlO6 027 MgO . . . .
SO3 0oS
NaCI
K20 074
hO (combined). .
Yellow Earth (dried at 100 C.).
Insoluble residue - Insoluble residue Fe303 - - - - SiOi - - -
AI2O3 Al,O1 - - - -
CaO FelOf - - - - 3~86
MgO . . CaO - - - . i86
P105 . . . . MgO - - - - I04
SO3
NaCl
K30
H20 (combined) -
(Analysis by P. G. Sanford, Geol. Mag., 1889, 6, pp. 456, 526.)
Of other published analyses, not a few show a lower silica content (j~ %, 50%), along with a higher proportion of alumina (II %, 23 %).
Fullers earth may occur on any geological horizon; at Nutfield in Surrey, England, it is in the Cretaceous formations; at Midford near Bath it is of Jurassic age; at Bala, North Wales, it occurs in Ordovician strata; in Saxony it appears to be the decomposition product of a diabasic rock. In America it is found in California in rocks ranging from Cretaceous to Pleistc~ene age; in S. Dakota, Custer county and elsewhere a yellow, gritty earth of Jurassic age is worked; in Florida and Georgia occurs a brittle, whitish earth of Oligocene age. Other deposits are worked in Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts and South Carolina.
Fullers earth is either mined or dug in the open according to local circumstances. It is then dried in the sun or by artificial heat and transported in small lumps in sacks. In other cases it is ground to a fine powder after being dried; or it is first roughly ground and made into a slurry with water, which is allowed to carry off the finer from the coarser particles and deposit them in a creamy state in suitable tanks. After consolidation this fine material is dried artificially on drying floors, broken into lumps, and packed for transport. The use of fullers earth for cleansing wool and cloth has greatly decreased, but the demand for the material is as great or greater than it ever was. It is now used very largely in the filtration of mineral oils, and also for decolourizing certain vegetable oils. It is employed in the formation of certain soaps and cleansing preparations.
The term Fullers Earth has a special significance in geology, for it was applied by W. Smith in 1799 to certain clays in the neighbouihood of Bath, and the use of the expression is still retained by English geologists, either in this form or in the generalized Fullonian. The Fullonian lies at the base of the Great Oolite or Bathonian series, but its palaeontological characters place it between that series and the underlying Inferior Oolite. The zonal fossils are Perisphinctes arbustigerus and Macrocephalus subcontract us with Ostrea acuminala, Rhynchonella concinna and Goniomya angulifera. The formation is in part the equivalent of the Vesulien of J. Marcou (Vesoul in Haute-Sane). In Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, where it is best developed, it is represented by an Upper Fullers Earth Clay, the Fullers Earth Rock (an impersistent earthy limestone, usually fossiliferous), and the Lower Fullers Earth Clay. Commercial fullers earth has been obtained only from the Upper Clay. In eastern Gloucestershire and northern Oxfordshire the Fullers Earth passes downwards without break into the Inferior Oolite; northward it dies out about Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire and passes laterally into the Stonesfield Slates series; in the midland counties it may perhaps be represented by the Upper Estuarine Series. In parts of Dorsetshire the clays have been used for brickmaking and the limestone (rock) for local buildings.
See H. B. Woodward, Jurassic Rocks of Great Britain, vol.
iv. (1894), Mem. Geol. Survey (London). ~J. A. H.]
NCB Being really really Dull zzzzzz
Oh Vix you have my fullest sympathy you really do.
This happened to me a couple of months ago (alas I had no areas sheilded with vaseline). I had the most dreadful night ever. Had to sit most of the night in the shower with cold water running on me. And couldn't pee for several days afterwards.
I spoke to my GP on the phone who said it was most likely just "nappy rash" but that I should call in for a check up just in case there was more serious burning. But in the end all I got for it was Sudacream. Though he did say it could have been a more serious chemical burn and told me not to do it again.
Luckily it cleared up in a day with just a few very lovely scabs :shock:
This happened to me a couple of months ago (alas I had no areas sheilded with vaseline). I had the most dreadful night ever. Had to sit most of the night in the shower with cold water running on me. And couldn't pee for several days afterwards.
I spoke to my GP on the phone who said it was most likely just "nappy rash" but that I should call in for a check up just in case there was more serious burning. But in the end all I got for it was Sudacream. Though he did say it could have been a more serious chemical burn and told me not to do it again.
Luckily it cleared up in a day with just a few very lovely scabs :shock:
Quote by celticq
Oh Vix you have my fullest sympathy you really do.
This happened to me a couple of months ago (alas I had no areas sheilded with vaseline). I had the most dreadful night ever. Had to sit most of the night in the shower with cold water running on me. And couldn't pee for several days afterwards.
I spoke to my GP on the phone who said it was most likely just "nappy rash" but that I should call in for a check up just in case there was more serious burning. But in the end all I got for it was Sudacream. Though he did say it could have been a more serious chemical burn and told me not to do it again.
Luckily it cleared up in a day with just a few very lovely scabs :shock:
Aww, poor you. Sounds like you had it worse than me, TBH.
I think I'll just have to go get somer Sudacream. How annoying that my children grew up and therefore I no longer have a stock of it.
Sex God
You silly girl, you didn't listen to Aunty Bev did you and do a test patch? Sorry hun, I know exactly how it feels. Try Sudocrem or Drapolene, both of those worked for me (had both at the time, great for nappy rash on babies bums lol)
Bev
xx
Bev
xx
Quote by freckledbird
You silly girl, you didn't listen to Aunty Bev did you and do a test patch? Sorry hun, I know exactly how it feels. Try Sudocrem or Drapolene, both of those worked for me (had both at the time, great for nappy rash on babies bums lol)
Bev
xx
Test patch, my arse (as it were). TBH, like I said, I thought I had masked off all the vulnerable bits. Should not have done this whilst pissed, in the middle of the night, should I?
Ah, you live, you learn.
Quote by Sgt Bilko
This Veet Mousse keeps popping up in the Forum. Sounds to me that it should have a health warning on it::? :?
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/16037.html
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/14838.html
There is a warning on it. It specifically says don't put it on yer bits
But when did that ever stop anybody doing anythingFor infor for Vix - I have one of those little Seiko Cleancut personal shavers which is like an electric razor but tiny. It is totally safe (I'd say impossible to nick yourself with it). Like all electric razors its not as close as a wet shave so you need to do it more oftne, but it may suit you in your current predicament. Can't remember where I got if from but it came with a wee trimmer thingie free.
Quote by JandPUK
Lavender oil is what you want. Most health shops sell it, and Boots probably does as well. Drip liberally over the affected area and the pain will go almost instantly. Lavender is excellent for any sort of burn and it soothes the skin very quickly as well.
Phil.
NEVER put neat lavendar essential oil onto any part of your body!
Sex God
It should be like the warning on on cigarette packets:
VEET MOUSSE BURNS YOUR BITS!!
why would they put a warning about Veet mousse on cigarette packets
OOOOOOOOO maybe it sets alight if you put the ciggie near the mousse - got ya sarge
Sex God
hey Scandal I think we might get in bother now - come and hide with me
Sex God
Quote by Vix
OK, it tells you on the tin to only use it on your legs but I liberally 'masked' bits with Vaseline and had a good blast of Veet Mousse, last night.
Well, I wasn't gonna go welding a razor on my bits, with the state of my vision, at the moment.
Anyroad, this morning, it feels like I have sat on a bloody hot coal. Jack and Danny are not amused.
With nothing else to hand, am slathering on the Canesten cream.. anyone got any better suggestions? Please?
Witch hazel is really good getting rid of minor irritations, although I did use it on a colleague at work and they were still there in the morning.
Just check it out on a small patch of skin first to make sure you don't throw an allergic reaction.
Quote by Silk and Big G
Witch hazel is really good getting rid of minor irritations, although I did use it on a colleague at work and they were still there in the morning.
Just check it out on a small patch of skin first to make sure you don't throw an allergic reaction.
Ooooh, now I have got some of that! Ta!
