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I had a friend who got really into essential oils for awhile. It's pretty benign until you get into treating anything other than a headache or sore throat with literal actual snake oil, which most people don't. A friend of mine made a "natural sunscreen" with like coconut oil and some essential oils and no zinc oxide. Her toddler ended up extra crispy from an afternoon at the water park.
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So this is going down right now in Phoenix. Unsurprisingly, level headed people are expressing their very good opinions on Facebook.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:44
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Feb 12, 2016 19:48
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Bomani's mentions could be an IOSM thread of its own.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:56
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Did I not see a him in that movie dumb and dumber This is so tame, it's almost endearing as an insult 
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Feb 12, 2016 20:02
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Eponine posted:I had a friend who got really into essential oils for awhile. It's pretty benign until you get into treating anything other than a headache or sore throat with literal actual snake oil, which most people don't. A friend of mine made a "natural sunscreen" with like coconut oil and some essential oils and no zinc oxide. Her toddler ended up extra crispy from an afternoon at the water park. In one of the previous iosm threads there was a post by some lady whose baby had a horrible fever like 104 and it was in some ~natural mom~ group, so everyone was suggesting rubbing its feet with lavender or some poo poo, and some lady said to go to the hospital and another lady was just going off on her with paragraphs of BS. Luckily the lady took the baby to the hospital... After it had like 3 seizures.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:17
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I know only one person who extensively relies on oils to cure everything, but she's a second grade teacher 
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Feb 12, 2016 20:21
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Maker Of Shoes posted:So this is going down right now in Phoenix. Unsurprisingly, level headed people are expressing their very good opinions on Facebook. The icing on Will Power's comment cake is that the two girls were found with the gun in an isolated part of the campus, suggesting suicide and not Columbine-style murder. But hey, don't let reading or informing yourself about the situation get in the way of immediately vomiting your pro-gun opinions all over Facebook, right?
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Feb 12, 2016 20:32
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I can't find the image because the old thread seems to have been deleted and not just gassed, but if you're curious (and are ok with being really angry don't google a combination words like child, fever, seizure, natural cures. "Fevers are good! 105 is fine! My kid had seizures and they're fine!"
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Christo posted:The icing on Will Power's comment cake is that the two girls were found with the gun in an isolated part of the campus, suggesting suicide and not Columbine-style murder. But hey, don't let reading or informing yourself about the situation get in the way of immediately vomiting your pro-gun opinions all over Facebook, right? If teachers were armed they could have shot gun out of the girls' hands!
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Feb 12, 2016 20:53
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Essential oils smell nice and feel good in a bath, I feel like that's enough of a selling point. I don't know why they had to be turned into cures for everything. I like Lavender and Tea Tree oil, but I always dread running into some new-age loon when I buy them.
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Feb 12, 2016 21:11
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Elderbean posted:Essential oils smell nice and feel good in a bath, I feel like that's enough of a selling point. I don't know why they had to be turned into cures for everything. Marketing. Not everybody takes baths these days or cares much about their cleany time smelling nice. That also makes it a luxury; not everybody can afford that. But everybody needs medical care at some point in their lives.
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Elderbean posted:Essential oils smell nice and feel good in a bath, I feel like that's enough of a selling point. You might even call it a smelling point 
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Feb 12, 2016 22:21
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Maker Of Shoes posted:If teachers were armed they could have shot gun out of the girls' hands! I'm honestly surprised they weren't killed by the police
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Feb 12, 2016 22:50
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Maker Of Shoes posted:If teachers were armed they could have shot gun out of the girls' hands! The teachers could have shot and killed them first and saved them from Hell
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Feb 13, 2016 00:30
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Aesop Poprock posted:The teachers could have shot and killed them first and saved them from Hell Dear duckface at Starbucks: It's not cute or awesome to let your crotch goblin spend 10 minutes "ordering" (rambling about teachers and bffs and why it was wearing a cape but certainly not ordering food or drink) while you stand there with your fake pursed lips (aka cat assholes) and do nothing. I think you were trying to smile but, with all that saline shoved in there who knows.
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Eponine posted:I had a friend who got really into essential oils for awhile. It's pretty benign until you get into treating anything other than a headache or sore throat with literal actual snake oil, which most people don't. A friend of mine made a "natural sunscreen" with like coconut oil and some essential oils and no zinc oxide. Her toddler ended up extra crispy from an afternoon at the water park. Coconut oil as a sunscreen was brought up in a wilderness survival course I did when we were discussing useful things to pack in survival kits. Apparently it's been determined to have an spf rating of about 2 or 3. I guess some people just ignore that part.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:44
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Oil of Oregano does a good job of preventing colds. Tea Tree oil is awesome for skin and for healing wounds. Don't deny the power of oils just to sound cool, dweebs.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:47
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The proper preparation and use of oils and other blade coatings is an essential element of monster hunting.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Oil of Oregano does a good job of preventing colds. Tea Tree oil is awesome for skin and for healing wounds. They have their uses. They do not cure literally everything.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Oil of Oregano does a good job of preventing colds. Tea Tree oil is awesome for skin and for healing wounds. I don't, it just gets crazy once it reaches "cures all ailments" levels. Tea Tree oil is also pretty good at getting rid of nail fungus.
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Feb 13, 2016 01:01
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I just want to know what is in a homeopathic first aid kit. Water with the essence of a bandage, diluted? Some stones to rub on a broken leg? Anti-bacterial wipes made of essential oils that have no anti-bacterial properties whatsoever?
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Feb 13, 2016 01:08
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Probably just a regular kit that costs at least three times as much. Unrelated: Do we have any "official homeopathic breweries"?
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Dear duckface at Starbucks: this is a weird display of satire
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Feb 13, 2016 01:35
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   This is pretty mild, but I thought it was amusing that Yellow was lecturing Red on a topic that Red knows far more about. And then there's the weird tangent about tax-dodging dole bludgers at the end.
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Feb 13, 2016 03:08
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For extra points, the guy who shared this is a college professor.
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Feb 13, 2016 03:27
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chitoryu12 posted:For extra points, the guy who shared this is a college professor. If you send it to his dean, and he gets fired, I'll buy you plat.
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budgieinspector posted:If you send it to his dean, and he gets fired, I'll buy you plat. Already got platinum. But now you've got me thinking...
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So I went searching on his public Facebook and what else my brother texted me from him, and I gathered a few more screenshots to send to the assistant dean of the English department. Hopefully we'll receive some kind of response. Here's the other two screenshots I got for him. The second one was a public post.  
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Feb 13, 2016 04:34
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Wow, yeah, that's 'action required' material. Send it to the press if they do nothing. Send it to the press anyway.
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Feb 13, 2016 05:12
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I love how matter of fact and conversational the subtitles or followup questions are on those things "The president's a faggy Muslim poo poo eater!! Wow, what's your opinion? Pretty neat huh? Gee whiz!"
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Well this went so much better than expected. I was just waiting for the anti vaxxer to come in and cringing in anticipation.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Oil of Oregano does a good job of preventing colds. Tea Tree oil is awesome for skin and for healing wounds. you uh, got any sources on this? All I'm seeing is that tea tree oil "might kind of sort of be effective" for treating some skin problems (but not enough to be recommended for actual clinical use,) and I can't find anything at all for the oil of oregano claim. I mean, from sources that aren't MOM'S HOME REMEDY DOCTORS BAD MEDICINE BAD THESE CRYSTALS CURE CANCER quality, anyway.
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https://nccih.nih.gov/health/tea/treeoil.htm It seems like more studies need to be done, but it's fairly effective at treating nail fungus/athletes foot. Prescription drugs for chronic nail fungus can cause liver damage and still take 6-12 months to work so I can see why rubbing some oil on your nails might be preferable. Elderbean has a new favorite as of 10:33 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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FlyinPingu posted:you uh, got any sources on this? All I'm seeing is that tea tree oil "might kind of sort of be effective" for treating some skin problems (but not enough to be recommended for actual clinical use,) and I can't find anything at all for the oil of oregano claim. I was skeptical too, since so much of that essential oils woo is just that, but it seems oil of oregano has been found by at least one study to have antiviral properties, specifically the ability to inactivate norovirus! 
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24779581 Then pharmaceutical companies will introduce the remedy in a pill or something and it will be back to "naturalists" screaming how unnatural that remedy is compared to "other tree treatment".
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Oil of Oregano does a good job of preventing colds. Tea Tree oil is awesome for skin and for healing wounds. congrats, you made the Dumbest poo poo I've Ever Heard thread! And they might rename it after you It's mostly because of the last sentence. I like tea tree oil mixed with orange blossom.
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Sorry I didn't know which thread to post this in so I'll post it here too, maybe one of you nice goons can spread this story around to stupid conservative/religious relatives?Thin Privilege posted:I swear to every diety ever, that as I was waking up this morning I was reading this story in my head. There were even pictures of her in a striped shirt, pregnant, with a husband who looked like Jim Bob. e: gently caress it, photoshop is fun. share this 
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Frighteningly authentic.
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