Re: Alkalol Personal Treatment

[Guest guest]

This sounds great, Sue!

Wish I could wash my eyes with it.

What do you use in your eye cup?

From: bird mites [mailto:bird mites ] On Behalf Of Sue

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008

10:13 AM

bird mites

Subject: Alkalol

Personal Treatment

Alkalol works well for mouth, ears, scalp & skin.

After posting about

it last week as a nasal wash, I nosed around their website

http://www.alkalolcompany.com/faq.html

& found their recommendations for treating mouth sores, ears & insect

bites. The natural ingredients - including eucalyptol, thymol,

menthol, camphor, and oils of wintergreen, spearmint, pine and

cinnamon - really knock the mites off guard. I'm using it full

strength, but it can be diluted up to half with water.

They hate it - I love it!

I clean out my eyes with an eye cup (not Alkalol) and then wash my

face, including my eyelids, with a glycolic (fruit acids) cleanser

with salicylic acid & let it stay on while I use the Alkalol nose

pot. After rinsing the soap off & patting dry with paper towels, I

pour the Alkalol from the bottle into the palm of my hand & press it

on all over face, eyelids & neck. Just let it air dry.

It doesn't sting or dry out the skin - very soothing. Smells faintly

minty - not medicinal. Leaves a slightly shiny film that has a fairly

long residual effect - works overnight for me & for hours at a time

during the day.

Put some in a dropper bottle & use in ears. Rubbed on lips removes

the " chapped " scum & keeps it from forming again.

Put some in a small spray bottle & saturated the scalp. Kept in the

fridge to use any time the crawlies start up. Stops them cold!

I find the cold is a double punch to the mites.

Eyewash used cold gets them out quicker & also hurts me less with the

numbing effect.

Using also on what remains of crusted sores on my knees & ankles. I'd

used herbal poultices to remove most of the scabs. Now just the

Alkalol is keeping them clean & accelerating healing.

I wouldn't have found these additional uses for Alkalol if I hadn't

answered a question about what I was using for my nose.

Another example of how by helping others we help ourselves.

Best wishes, Sue

[Guest guest]

I use a refrigerated herbal tea mixed with water as an eyewash with a

regular eye cup. Drops I tried never did anything for me (saline,

Visine). The tea I make up by the gallon & drink.

Have used a Bausch & Lomb eyewash in the past called Collyrium:

http://www.bausch.com/en_US/package_insert/visioncare/drops/collyriumi

nsert.pdf

It comes with an eyecup attached to the lid. I ran out but still use

the eye cup. I don't use it as per their instructions. Tried that &

just seemed to boomerang the bugs back into the eye from the cup.

I've found that filling the cup to the brim & holding the cup over

the sink I can bend over the sink & just barely touch the eye to the

liquid, flutter my lashes, roll my eye around and take the cup away,

letting the solution & bugs fall out of my eye into the sink. The cup

has to be topped up each time from a measuring cup. It may take half

a dozen times for each eye to feel cleaned out.

Having the eyewash cold minimizes the pain by numbing - these bugs

sometimes hold on tight & it can hurt. The cold seems to shock them &

make it harder for them to get a grip.

In my case, I suspect that the mites are not getting in, but rather

coming out & then retreating again.

For times I feel them on my eyelashes, I'm spritzing them with cold

Alkalol. You might want to ask the Alkalol people if it can be used

as an eyewash. Been meaning to but haven't yet...

http://www.alkalolcompany.com/contact.html

Best wishes, Sue

RE: Alkalol Personal Treatment

This sounds great, Sue!

Wish I could wash my eyes with it.

What do you use in your eye cup?

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From: bird mites

[mailto:bird mites ] On Behalf Of Sue

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:13 AM

bird mites

Subject: Alkalol Personal Treatment

Alkalol works well for mouth, ears, scalp & skin. After posting about

it last week as a nasal wash, I nosed around their website

http://www.alkalolcompany.com/faq.html

& found their recommendations for treating mouth sores, ears & insect

bites. The natural ingredients - including eucalyptol, thymol,

menthol, camphor, and oils of wintergreen, spearmint, pine and

cinnamon - really knock the mites off guard. I'm using it full

strength, but it can be diluted up to half with water.

They hate it - I love it!

I clean out my eyes with an eye cup (not Alkalol) and then wash my

face, including my eyelids, with a glycolic (fruit acids) cleanser

with salicylic acid & let it stay on while I use the Alkalol nose

pot. After rinsing the soap off & patting dry with paper towels, I

pour the Alkalol from the bottle into the palm of my hand & press it

on all over face, eyelids & neck. Just let it air dry.

It doesn't sting or dry out the skin - very soothing. Smells faintly

minty - not medicinal. Leaves a slightly shiny film that has a fairly

long residual effect - works overnight for me & for hours at a time

during the day.

Put some in a dropper bottle & use in ears. Rubbed on lips removes

the " chapped " scum & keeps it from forming again.

Put some in a small spray bottle & saturated the scalp. Kept in the

fridge to use any time the crawlies start up. Stops them cold!

I find the cold is a double punch to the mites.

Eyewash used cold gets them out quicker & also hurts me less with the

numbing effect.

Using also on what remains of crusted sores on my knees & ankles. I'd

used herbal poultices to remove most of the scabs. Now just the

Alkalol is keeping them clean & accelerating healing.

I wouldn't have found these additional uses for Alkalol if I hadn't

answered a question about what I was using for my nose.

Another example of how by helping others we help ourselves.

Best wishes, Sue

[Guest guest]

See the Collyrium link didn/t work - sorry! Try this one:

http://www.bausch.com/en_US/consumer/visioncare/product/drops/collyriu

m.aspx

I use a refrigerated herbal tea mixed with water as an eyewash with a

regular eye cup. Drops I tried never did anything for me (saline,

Visine). The tea I make up by the gallon & drink.

Have used a Bausch & Lomb eyewash in the past called Collyrium:

http://www.bausch.com/en_US/package_insert/visioncare/drops/collyriumi

nsert.pdf

It comes with an eyecup attached to the lid. I ran out but still use

the eye cup. I don't use it as per their instructions. Tried that &

just seemed to boomerang the bugs back into the eye from the cup.

I've found that filling the cup to the brim & holding the cup over

the sink I can bend over the sink & just barely touch the eye to the

liquid, flutter my lashes, roll my eye around and take the cup away,

letting the solution & bugs fall out of my eye into the sink. The cup

has to be topped up each time from a measuring cup. It may take half

a dozen times for each eye to feel cleaned out.

Having the eyewash cold minimizes the pain by numbing - these bugs

sometimes hold on tight & it can hurt. The cold seems to shock them &

make it harder for them to get a grip.

In my case, I suspect that the mites are not getting in, but rather

coming out & then retreating again.

For times I feel them on my eyelashes, I'm spritzing them with cold

Alkalol. You might want to ask the Alkalol people if it can be used

as an eyewash. Been meaning to but haven't yet...

http://www.alkalolcompany.com/contact.html

Best wishes, Sue

RE: Alkalol Personal Treatment

This sounds great, Sue!

Wish I could wash my eyes with it.

What do you use in your eye cup?

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From: bird mites

[mailto:bird mites ] On Behalf Of Sue

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:13 AM

bird mites

Subject: Alkalol Personal Treatment

Alkalol works well for mouth, ears, scalp & skin. After posting about

it last week as a nasal wash, I nosed around their website

http://www.alkalolcompany.com/faq.html

& found their recommendations for treating mouth sores, ears & insect

bites. The natural ingredients - including eucalyptol, thymol,

menthol, camphor, and oils of wintergreen, spearmint, pine and

cinnamon - really knock the mites off guard. I'm using it full

strength, but it can be diluted up to half with water.

They hate it - I love it!

I clean out my eyes with an eye cup (not Alkalol) and then wash my

face, including my eyelids, with a glycolic (fruit acids) cleanser

with salicylic acid & let it stay on while I use the Alkalol nose

pot. After rinsing the soap off & patting dry with paper towels, I

pour the Alkalol from the bottle into the palm of my hand & press it

on all over face, eyelids & neck. Just let it air dry.

It doesn't sting or dry out the skin - very soothing. Smells faintly

minty - not medicinal. Leaves a slightly shiny film that has a fairly

long residual effect - works overnight for me & for hours at a time

during the day.

Put some in a dropper bottle & use in ears. Rubbed on lips removes

the " chapped " scum & keeps it from forming again.

Put some in a small spray bottle & saturated the scalp. Kept in the

fridge to use any time the crawlies start up. Stops them cold!

I find the cold is a double punch to the mites.

Eyewash used cold gets them out quicker & also hurts me less with the

numbing effect.

Using also on what remains of crusted sores on my knees & ankles. I'd

used herbal poultices to remove most of the scabs. Now just the

Alkalol is keeping them clean & accelerating healing.

I wouldn't have found these additional uses for Alkalol if I hadn't

answered a question about what I was using for my nose.

Another example of how by helping others we help ourselves.

Best wishes, Sue