----- Original Message ----- From: Dean T. Miller <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:00 PM Subject: Re: CS>Athletes foot
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 23:49:22 -0600, "A.V.R.A." > <[email protected]> wrote: > >I use biotone cream as a cream base, and dilute it about 100% - 300% > > sometimes more and sometimes less, depending on skin condition ) with > >colloidal silver ( I run long batches for external use to increase the > >amount of actual silver particle content ). I add various pure essential > >oils to the blend depending on the use. > > I've looked for Biotone cream around here (central Iowa) and can't > seem to find any. > Do you have any suggestions about where I might get some? > > -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF Hi Folks. My companion used to use Biotone for massage until I pointed out that it contains Oleth 3. According to Judi Vance, author of BEAUTY TO DIE FOR, this ingredient is a glycol. Glycols are used to emulsify ingredients in cosmetics and body care creams and lotions. Unfortunately, as a group glycols are not optimal to use, since they can be carcinogenic and/or toxic in other ways and cause adverse reactions. Biotone happens to be one of the better brands of skin creams available. Massage practitioners like it because it absorbs so well into the skin. Oleth 3 is the eighth out of ten ingredients that comprise Biotone. One of the chief ingredients is listed as "Canadian canola oil," and is probably genetically engineered--although due to the several phases that rapeseed (or Canola, short for "Canadian oil") has gone through, it is hard to say for a fact that the specific oil in Biotone is genetically engineered. I like to use simple products. One substance that absorbs well into the skin is Jojoba, which is squeezed from the seed of the Jojoba plant. Technically it's not an oil, which makes it non-staining. And since it is close in composition to the human secretion sebum, this makes it compatible with and healing to the human skin. Jojoba is expensive, but a little goes a long way. Just thought you'd like to know. It's good to be back online. Except for one brief period when I could get online, my email service has been out for a few days, since the wires my company uses were in the World Trade Tower. (I live less than 2 hours from Manhattan.) Peace to you all. Nina Silver -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
