Rowena Evans wrote: > I bought these for a few years, and was a bit puzzled by an odour on > them. Then my daughter started complaining that they smelled of her > brother. Around the same time I saw on another forum that one needed > to wipe the tops over with an antibacterial solution to kill the sweat > bacteria they picked up. It did seem to work wiping them over, but I > was further put off when I found that these "natural" stones contained > aluminium. (Wasn't that a Hulda Clark observation?) I hadn't been > able to find out what the ingredients were, though had a surprise on > one to see the word "alum". They are just standing in the bathroom > cupboards now. > What is potassium alum, then?
Al2(SO4)) > Where do they get it from? I believe it is mined. > To what > degree can it be called natural? Since it is mined, I guess one could call it natural. But then coal is mined as well. Alum is used in cooking as well. I would think that much more would be absorbed when eating meringue than when using as a deodorant. Marshall > > > Rowena > > > A good alternative is a deodorant stone/crystal. I > > was amazed at how well these work when I first tried > > them. They are made of potassium alum which kill the > > bacteria so there is no odor. > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>