Jill said: I see that VCNO means virgin coconut oil. They have borrowed the term from the olive oil industry, because there was no agreed terminology in coconut oil production to describe what they are doing. It is not universal at the moment, as I understand it, that one term means one particular thing, and there is no central body really to determine what things should be called. Another thing is that it is open to abuse by people who want to sell their RBD (refined bleached and deodorised) oil to jump on the bandwagon and call their oil virgin. So we need to be sure what process is used in manufacture and what interpretation they put on the terminology when choosing a product - I guess look up a website to see what they are doing in detail.
"Hydrogenated" is not good in any oil. I don't know what the effect of nitrogen is, but one company who sells CO in tins boasts on their website (but not on the cans) that they put nitrogen to preserve freshness. I did a search on nitrogen, but didn't end up much wiser. One coconut oil maker reckoned it was great, but there was a deafening silence from VCNO makers on the subject. I emailed the "Nitrogenated" oil makers, but they never replied. I never intended to eat their product (unless it was wonderful), just to make soap. After reading up on moles etc. and VCNO, I decided I would go with my gut and put VCNO on DH's plaster for non-stickability instead of vaseline. I'd left it alone for 48 hours rather than keep fiddling with it. Checked it, and it looked pretty good. I won't describe it unless any of you want me to. Yes, I always use CS, and there is DMSO in the salve. I cleaned it up with CS and H2O2 3% tonight. Not that there was any work to do, but I just thought the skin around should have a bit of silver and oxygen. I'm a bit concerned about the eschar getting compressed, as it's on the spine, so put a little wad of cotton wool below the site like a cushion, but not above in case it slipped down and got stuck to anything. Pretty pleased with progress. Rowena -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
