My Camphor HeadACHE

Posted by Natalie on January 27, 2000 at 04:50:10:

I tried the camphor trick with the camphor spirits from the drug
store. It didn't do anything. Light, light stain. Did not darken.
Then after looking for a while I found real 100% camphor oil. I used
the camphor as a skin prep like I would eucalyptus and other oils,
that have not bothered me before. I only put a few drops in the
paste. Then I got little bumps (I want to call them blisters but
they weren't exactly.) on my hands that lasted two weeks, but weren't
visibly noticeable and weren't horrible so long as I didn't do
anything like scrub them or use soap that wasn't mild. I drew an
elaborate design on the back of my hand, so I was hennaing for an
hour or two. I got a really bad migraine. I wrapped the henna and
went to sleep. The next morning the stain was light and did not
darken during the day.

I think I might try this again. This time not putting the camphor
directly on my skin. How do I avoid the headache, without going
outside?
I'd really like to see this work.

Natalie

Follow-ups:

• Re: My Camphor HeadACHE Natalie 15:08:38 1/27/00 (0)
• not really worth it Catherine Cartwright Jones 13:21:01 1/27/00 (3)
  • Re: not really worth it Aisha Hashmi 03:17:28 1/28/00 (2)
    • Re:heat treatment Natasha Papousek 14:57:01 1/28/00 (0)
    • Re: not really worth it Natalie 04:27:23 1/28/00 (0)
• Camphor.....perhaps not worth the trouble Shanon Lavender 11:43:30 1/27/00 (0)