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Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:33 pm  |
After a bad week, I created a nasty situation out of a regular zit- too much fiddlin' and pickin' and fancy citified products have left me with the kind of wound that makes me want to put a bag over my head. How could I have done this to myself? I should be wiser since I certainly am older.
Anyway- last night I remembered the little green bottle in my medicine cabinet-
Campho-Phenique is normally used for very small superficial wounds- I was raised with this stuff. My Tennessee daddy used it for EVERYTHING- cold sores, overscratched skeeter bites, paper cuts, whatever.
Eureka! A good soaking with C-P has taken the soreness out of my self-inflicted monstrosity, and I'm well on my way to healing. Now if I could just figure out a nice way to decorate this bag for my head!
Campho-Phenique now comes in an ointment form- but I don't trust that newfangled development. I'm stickin' with the straight stuff, and God forbid they should ever stop making it. |
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Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:55 pm |
| Thanks for bringing back memories. I can picture the bottle in the medicine cabinet as I type. Whew, that was a long time ago. |
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Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:52 pm |
An oldie but goodie indeed. It still comes in a teensy green bottle, but now it's plastic with a childproof top.
And judging from the smell- they haven't changed the formula. Talk about nostalgia! Whew! I catch one whiff and I'm 8 again. Plus moths will not come near me. |
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Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:00 pm |
I had to laugh when I read this!!! 
When I was growing up, my mother insisted that Campho-Phenique would cure just about anything (and mercurochrome or chamomile tea cured the rest!). In fact, she still does. It cracks us (the kids) up - but we all have a bottle around the house! I've found it's the best thing when I have an itchy ear (the way my allergies manifest themselves) or if I've got sores on my tongue - especially if they're from rubbing my tongue against my teeth - something I tend to do when I'm stressed. It tastes terrible, but if I put it on when I go to sleep, by morning they're all but gone.
I'll have to try it on the ingrown eyebrow hairs I'm dealing with right now... |
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Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:47 pm |
Cat- your mom and my dad could be twins.
My daddy has always driven everyone crazy about this wonder remedy and receives endless grief about it. Years ago, when ReaLemon came in giant green glass bottles, one of his friends noticed that it looked like a huge container of Campho-Phenique. They had someone do a rendering of the C-P label, put it on the ReaLemon bottle, and gave it to him at his (legendary) 40th birthday party (ca 1967). There's a great picture of him holding it, right before he got pushed into the pool.
I'm sure if it really was available in quart bottles he would buy it.
And I also can testify to how nasty it tastes- soaked on a cotton ball for canker sores- which I don't get any more, thank goodness- must be all that good doctorin' from Daddy! |
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