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Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.
Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.
Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.
Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.
One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.
Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.
Like maybe my tone is hard to read, maybe it just comes off as really angry but it’s not, it’s fear and worry. I read posts and clutch my head in alarm going “no! No! That’s how people die!” And then I get exasperated because a bunch of people not formally qualified chime in with “um actually this is a lie” and it’s not, it’s really, really not.
I’m not some big pharma advocate. I’m a crunchy witch hippy just like you with salt rock lamps and rose quartz all over my house. I just happen to have spent the last 15 years of my life studying the actual science of holistic medicines and I’m trying to help you not get hurt (or worse) becuase you trusted a sales person with no idea what the ever loving hell they were talking about beyond a sales pitch designed to maximize profit. Gah.
I see this so often in the Mommy world. There was a lady not long ago in one of the mom groups who was really worried about her toddler. He’d had a persistent cough for weeks and the doctor couldn’t figure out why. Someone asked, well what have to tried to treat it with, so far? She said she was using a humidifier, honey, and eucalyptus EO in the shower every night.
Yeah.
In case you were wondering, eucalyptus can cause respiratory distress in young children.
Sadly I don’t wonder. I have a friend whose daughter died from a home made menthol oil chest rub. She wasn’t even ten yet, but her mom– a qualified aromatherapist– thought she’d be old enough to handle it. She went into respitory distress and died seizing in her mother’s arms on route to the hospital. It was one of the most harrowing stories I had to listen to during my holistic training. She stood up there, on this podium next to a bunch of ponzy scheme essential oil sellers who looked like they wanted the floor to swallow them, and said “I killed my child with good intentions”.
I’ll never forget the look on her face.
So to reiterate, children under the age of ten should not be directly exposed to things like eucalyptus oil, peppermint or wintergreen. If you are using such things in your house and your child starts to complain of headaches, lethargy and general “feel worse”, don’t just assume it’s the cold/flu. Those are all signs of menthol sensitivity and they only get worse with increased exposure. Ventilate the room, take them outside if you can until the air clears. Do not apply again.
Rapid onset wheezing may be a sign of allergic reaction or possible asthma attack triggered by the menthol too. If they tell you their chest is warm or fuzzy when you use it, that’s another sign it’s not going down well with them. Again, ventilate the area or remove anything you applied to them. Administer inhalers if necessary. Watch for any more labored breathing or if they suddenly go limp or you can’t wake them up. If they do call 911.
This can also apply to people with allergies and asthma who are otherwise healthy.
One of the safest, natural ways to alleviate congestion is with just pure good old fashioned warm steam. Keep the air moist, drink plenty of warm fluids. Menthol can help relieve the feeling of congestion, but there’s limited evidence to suggest it actually clears the airways. And for the love of god don’t inhale mustard or horseradish (I’ve seen that suggestion on posts too, though how you’d get those oils I don’t know). That’s literally what tear gas is made of.
I apologize sincerely for bringing this long post back into your lives, fam, but I’m getting inundated with questions about what can the possible harm be if you dab a little neat peppermint oil on your child’s skin to help them with a little head cold, and this is the most succinct way I can put it.
The harm you may do, is in fact death. I am not telling you these things to be a kill joy, I’m telling you so you won’t accidentally kill yours.
get them randomly assigned as your lab partner for a whole semester, get trapped with them on a broken elevator for ten hours, and they’re your employee trainer for your new job at McDonalds
the important rule to this version is that no matter who is with you, you HAVE to be stuck in the elevator for the full ten hours. I don’t care if you’re in there with Thor himself. You can’t get out.
new ask game: send three characters and i’ll tell you which i’d rather have
• get randomly assigned as your lab partner for a whole semester,
• get trapped with on a broken elevator for ten hours
• get as my employee trainer for my new job at McDonalds
series of unfortunate events except with the mcelroy brothers and everyone still says stuff like “but you’re CHILDREN” even though they are clearly 3 grown men being sent to various guardians and boarding schools
Justin: *pointing at everyone* Olaf. Olaf. Suuuuuuuper Olaf.
Travis: But why would Count Olaf keep using such poor disguises and getting cau-
i thought the implication is that Hawkmoth can only make 1 Akuma as it's his Miraculous' power to "make heroes", like how Chat can only use Cataclysm once, Ladybug can only use Lucky Charm once, and so on
well, like i said, if thats the case then we dont need to worry so much
although….setting aside any kind of upgrades the miraculous could get later to up the stakes, i suppose the question lies in how fast nooroo can eat, since its been confirmed that akuma stay active even when hawkmoth is not transformed
(or on a darker note, whether gabriel can force nooroo to go beyond his limits, at the expense of his health, to keep using powers)
so perhaps its slower going, but in the same way marinette and adrien detransform to recharge and reuse their powers, its plenty possible that hawkmoth can do the same and build an army…so long as he can create akuma faster than ladybug and chat noir can purify them
so zombizou was a ride from start to finish, much heavier than weve been getting thus far this season, and chockablock of shipping fuel but it also gave us two very important pieces of information
mme bustier is the best character, everyone else can go home
she has really fucking weird eyebrows
joking (not really)! but actually, regarding hawkmoth:
1. hawkmoth can force a person into akumatization.
no verbal contract required, at most maybe a little bit of sweet-talking (which im not convinced wasnt just for hawkmoth to justify his own actions)– and youve got an akuma, out to get the miraculous, whether or not the person agreed to help in the first place
(edit: yes aurore tried to fend off the akuma when it came towards her in stormy weather, but once it and hawkmoth got into her head, she explicitly agreed to help hawkmoth. mme bustier never did)
and 2. hawkmoth can force the negative emotions required for akumatization…or more dangerously, the mere appearance of an akuma, at this point, is all it takes to ignite enough fear to allow hawkmoth to take over
akumas have caused enough damage that they are a well-known fear in paris at this point…and it might allow hawkmoth to skip that first step of finding new victims. instead of waiting around for chloe to step on someones shoe or something, whats stopping hawkmoth from simply…sending out a dozen akumas to find whoevers scared enough to latch on to? boom- twelve akuma attacks at once.
maybe hawkmoth needs that negative emotion to even ‘’’evilize’ the butterfly in the first place, you say? fine- why not start off a single akuma attack, wait a few minutes for the panic to set in…and there you go. a city full of people afraid enough to be made into akuma.
remember how much trouble ladybug and chat noir have had with just one?
