This discussion between Bruce and Ken has some good advice.
BRUCE
Hi Ken, well this is somewhat a subject of controversy. The DMSO I'm buying, as well as all of the DMSO sold in our natural foods market (15 or so products) comes in plastic. This is potentially problematic, as the DMSO, a very soluble solvent, will carry anything it absorbs wherever it goes.
Also, some people have found that even with a glass spray bottle, that the plastic spray head and pump can become brittle and break (I haven't experienced this), which begs the question of did the plasticizers from the plastic get absorbed by the DMSO. So, I guess the appropriate answer is, it shouldn't be in plastic. I rebottle my DMSO in glass, but it comes out of polyethylene.
I guess you got to pick your battles. In "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" it's suggested that one factor in their demise was the use of lead for dishes, including wine goblets, by the Roman elites. Here in Western mass culture, we practically live in plastic. Good thing we have MMS, no?
KEN
Good points Bruce... thanks for the insight! We definitely have to pick our battles and weigh our options carefully! From your experience do you think its more effective to spray it on than to apply it with a cotton applicator or something like that! What I've personally been doing is spraying the MMS on my skin as sort of a base coat, then applying DMSO with sterile cotton balls over the MMS "base coat" and then spraying another coat of MMS over the DMSO...its been working pretty well that way, but i don't know if its the most effective!
BRUCE
I think anyway you get it on there is great. When I treat myself for skin conditions, I often put the DMSO on with a finger-tip (I have a little arthritis in my thumbs, so that helps too!). I don't like "wasting" it by using cotton or Q-tips, as I'm pathologically frugal. I use the spray bottle for large areas, but I observe that there's always overspray getting all over everything (that's OK, it washes out with water). My sweetie (Hi Cynthia) gets an itching reaction from full-strength DMSO and prefers (pricey, there's my skin-flint again) DMSO cream. It smells good! She does not prefer the odor of DMSO.
Spraying has the advantage of not disturbing the topical spray MMS basecoat.
