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Touching and Being Touched
Published in Michael S. Margoles, Richard Weiner, Chronic PAIN, 2019
An alternative to intercourse is giving or getting a massage with warm oil or talcum powder. It is good to do this on a big towel, in order to avoid getting oil on bedclothes or carpeting. Another alternative is washing your partner’s feet. That’s right, feet. Put a basin of warm water on the floor in front of the chair your partner is sitting in; you can sit on the floor. Put your partner’s feet on a towel. Pick up one foot and hold it over the basin, and dribble warm water over it. Set it down, and work up a lather of soap on your hands. Wash your partner’s foot and spend time on each toe. Rinse the foot, and wrap it up in a towel. Do the other foot. Unwrap the first foot and wet it down again. Rub some 20 Mule Team Borax on the tough skin on the ball of the foot and on the heel in order to rub off some old used skin. Avoid rubbing Borax on the arch. Rinse off the Borax, and rub a little salt on the places where you rubbed the Borax. The salt gets into the tiny abrasions caused by the Borax and creates a pleasant tingling sensation. After the first foot has been Boraxed, rinsed, salted, rinsed, dried, and wrapped in a towel, it’s time to rub oil (baby oil or perhaps scented oil) into each foot. This foot-washing process should take a long time and gives plenty of opportunity to give or receive touch, depending upon whether you are the washer or the washee. It can be done in the most comfortable position a person with chronic pain is able to assume. The important thing is to give and get tender, caring touch, and the only way to find out if these alternatives are satisfying is to try them.
Other reversible methods *
Published in John Guillebaud, Contraception Today, 2019
Vegetable- and mineral-oil-based lubricants, and the bases for many prescribed and over-the-counter vaginal products, can seriously damage and lead to rupture of rubber: baby oil destroys up to 95% of a condom's strength within 15 minutes. Beware of ad hoc use of, or contamination by, substances from the kitchen or bathroom cupboard!
Relationships, Communication and Intimacy in Chronic Pain
Published in Keren Fisher, Susan Childs, Lance McCracken, Glyn Towlerton, The Practical Pain Management Handbook, 2018
Keren Fisher, Susan Childs, Lance McCracken, Glyn Towlerton
As the person with pain, you take the receiver role first. You can lie in any comfortable position, using pillows, cushions or towels to support your back, neck and knees. Your partner uses baby oil or lotion and massages your arms, legs and upper body, back and front if you wish.
Efficacy of Different Hair and Skin Decontamination Strategies with Identification of Associated Hazards to First Responders
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care, 2020
Joanne Larner, Adam Durrant, Philip Hughes, Devanya Mahalingam, Samantha Rivers, Hazem Matar, Elliot Thomas, Mark Barrett, Andreia Pinhal, Nevine Amer, Charlotte Hall, Toni Jackson, Valeria Catalani, Robert P. Chilcott
Methyl salicylate (99+%) and curcumin (98%) were sourced from Acros Organics, Geel, Belgium. Johnson’s™ Baby Shampoo and Baby Oil, produced by Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, were both purchased locally in the UK. Propan-2-ol, methanol, acetic acid, formic acid and acetonitrile (all HPLC grade) were purchased from Fisher Scientific, Loughborough, UK. Deionized water (18.2 MΩcm) was prepared in-house using a MilliQ Integral3 water purifier purchased from Millipore (UK) Ltd., Watford, UK. Dosing simulant was prepared by dissolving curcumin in methyl salicylate to produce a 10 mg mL−1 solution. This mixture was subsequently diluted 9:1 w:w with Johnson’s Baby Oil. The final nominal concentrations of methyl salicylate and curcumin were 1100 and 9 µg mL−1, respectively.
Mineral oil in food, cosmetic products, and in products regulated by other legislations
Published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2019
Ralph Pirow, Annegret Blume, Nicole Hellwig, Matthias Herzler, Bettina Huhse, Christoph Hutzler, Karla Pfaff, Hermann-Josef Thierse, Tewes Tralau, Bärbel Vieth, Andreas Luch
Mineral oils, waxes and petrolatum as currently used in cosmetic products are complex combinations of hydrocarbons obtained through chemical refinement including distillation, extraction, crystallization and hydrogenation from petroleum fractions (Figure 1). The carbon chain length in these mixtures ranges from C18 to > C90 (Petry et al. 2017). Mineral oils serve diverse functions in cosmetics e.g. as vehicles, viscosity regulators and moisturizers, and are consequently found in various product groups (e.g. skin care products, sunscreen, lipsticks, Vaseline and baby oil). Depending on the product type, the mineral oil content in cosmetics may vary from low to nearly 100%. An example for the latter is petrolatum that was patented under the brand name Vaseline by Robert Chesebrough in 1872 and has been marketed ever since. Petrolatums are blended from high quality white oils and petroleum waxes (Health Canada 2016).
Analysis of phthalate esters in two different baby care products available in United Arab Emirates
Published in Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, 2019
Saba Farooqi, K. Rajendran, Razia Khanam
It is well known that infants might be at higher risk to phthalates exposure, and baby products could be one of the reasons for the exposure (Sathyanarayana et al. 2008). The baby oil and baby lotion are the two most widely used baby products and are applied directly on the skin that offer a wide surface area for penetration and absorption. Hence, it was considered worthwhile to estimate the phthalate levels in these two products with different shelf life i.e. 3, 10, and 20 months from the date of manufacture. Although literature reveals that phthalates are added in different products to improve the quality and stability, it is not possible to collect the baby care products on the same day of manufacturing and before filling in the plastic containers to confirm the intentionally added phthalates. Hence, the sampling of 3, 10, and 20 months have been selected to estimate phthalate concentration in the third month from the date of manufacture (which may contain added phthalates along with migrated phthalates if any) and the effect of leaching, if occurring in these products (10 and 20 months from the date of manufacturing) packaged in plastic containers.