052) My Possible Newly Invented Topical Anesthetic

So I'm going to be needing to do permanent hair removal, electrolysis, to my face. This is supposed to be EXTREMELY painful... I've been holding off on really looking into getting started on it partially because of the cost of the procedure itself when done professionally, and partially because of the added cost of getting myself anesthetized beforehand.

There are products out there for around $20 that can do at-home galvanic electrolysis, so that's not really a big problem if I can just get up the gumption to DIY it...

But anesthesia would still be a problem... And is a LARGE part of what's keeping back the gumption to DIY it.

Someone over on a board I frequent, however, turned me on to a new research project when she commented on a thread about making your own pueraria mirifica cream using DMSO as the carrier through the skin barrier.

That's a large part of why effective topical anesthesia would be so costly, getting it through the skin barrier...

I did a little research on DMSO and found that in addition to being an excellent carrier for other dissolved chemicals mixed with it, it has analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. That's two parts of the pain from electrolysis taken care of. Just need to find a reasonable anesthetic as well and I'd be set.

So I set to looking for herbs that when used topically act as an anesthetic and eventually found cloves. Actually, the clove oil. Apparently clove oil's primary constituent is a powerful anesthetic known as eugenol. And if you take the oil from the stems, you can get up to 95% eugenol! And to make things even more interesting, eugenol also tends to carry through the skin barrier easier than other drugs. Eugenol in fact has seen a lot of use by some dentists in place of the 'caine's. For people who are allergic to the 'caine family of drugs, but not allergic to cloves, it's a safer alternative than some of the other choices.

The bad part of this combination? Bad breath. But I have found out that apparently, just a small amount of aloe gel can cancel that.

So I'm going to be mixing a 99% pure DMSO liquid found here: http://www.petstruly.com/1871.html

With a 100% pure from-the-stem clove oil found here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clove-Stem-Essen...4ab92e2282

And some pure aloe gel extracted myself from plants bought at the local market.

I'll be mixing it in an approximately 7/2/1 combination. Seven parts DMSO, two parts clove oil, and 1 part aloe gel. 16 oz DMSO, 4 oz clove oil, and 2 oz aloe gel. If you divide by two that's actually 8/2/1, but if you recalculate based on parts of the 22oz whole, it's about 72%, 18%, 10%. Multiplied by their respective strengths you get about 71%, 17%, and 5% of active ingredients and 7% inactive.

Why that combination? For one thing, 70% is the minimum required DMSO strength to completely penetrate the skin barrier and carry things with it. Even just 15% eugenol when being carried directly to the local blood stream should be more than sufficient for quite a bit of numbing, and the aloe is only meant to help the odor. I was unable to find any specific quantity to use, but figured since DMSO is used by itself in up to 90% formulas, 5% active aloe constituents should be sufficient.

Now I just need money to buy the ingredients and an at-home electrolysis machine.

This mixture would probably be pretty darned effective for waxing too btw, if anyone would like to try it for that.

The potential dangers? Don't try this if you have an allergy to aloe or cloves. As far as I could find, there are no known adverse reactions to DMSO itself, only any chemicals carried with it. I am not myself allergic to either, I use both quite often for other uses. Cloves are one of my favorite food spices and aloe is an excellent moisturizer for someone who already produces more sebum than she needs anything to do with. It returns JUST moisture, with no oils. Aloe also tends to be a great enhancement for...

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other moisture needs... ;)

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Think of a certain word beginning with L, and yes, it's kind of dirty, but true... :P