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[where2look]

A word to the wise: do not crush pills while sitting on your bed if you're as uncoordinated as me. There is aspirin powder all over my comforter now! Also, I'm pretty sure my roommate is suspicious of the fact that I just grabbed a bunch of bowls, measuring cups, ziplocs, and empty bottles. I guess bedroom chemistry is pretty sketch, but I'm a

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[abitbrash]

Wait- just a question, darling, but why were you crushing up aspirin, of all pills? Haha!

Mad love, yo.

[where2look]

Oh, haha. I was making an astringent thing for ingrown hairs. It burns like shit, but works.

[abitbrash]

Oh, phew! Really? How do you make it, water and aspirin? And just slather it on? My boyfriend's skin is prone to ingrown hairs.

[where2look]

It's a combo of aspirin, witch hazel, and rubbing alcohol. Can't remember the proportions off the top of my head, but it smells really bad and shouldn't be used too often. The rubbing alcohol helps with the transdermal absorption of the aspirin into the tissue that's inflamed because of the ingrown hair, and the witch hazel helps to prevent it from drying out too much.