OFF Topic - don't try this one folks

Cheryl, be very very careful not to touch any mucus membranes when the capsaisin's on you. I had an extemely uncomfortable experience once after DH used it on his back. Sweat will make it migrate, and that's all the TMI you're going to get out of me!

Sara

I was reading a Sandy Koufax biography a couple months ago, and the trainer who used to put the cream on him learned to wear plastic gloves to do it, because otherwise "his wife wouldn't let him sleep with his hands under the covers".

I've mastered the art of using the tube to apply it and the edges of the spout to rub it in (sorta). I cover my knee with an old tube sock (foot cut off), which will never see the laundry, because the same book warned what happened when Koufax's clothes were washed with other players'.

I know that pain! once scratched my nose after chopping jalapeños. I don't want to think about having it elsewhere!

Cheryl

Along this line - I got poison ivy on a backpacking trip - had to use the "facilities" and didn't look carefully enough. So now my Girl Scout troop, whenever we go hiking, has as their motto "Leaves of three, don't dare pee!"

I think the newer creams have less of the oils in them. I just wish the stuff worked on shin splints!

Cheryl

Oh dear!

Cheryl

LOLOLOL - the mind boggles! DH strained a muscle in his thigh, many years ago, and the Algipan he rubbed in ended up in a very tender place! He was in agony for hours and the air was BLUE!

Pat P

Along this line - I got poison ivy on a backpacking trip - had to use the "facilities" and didn't look carefully enough. So now my Girl Scout troop, whenever we go hiking, has as their motto "Leaves of three, don't dare pee!"

Just looked up a poison ivy site and they NEARLY got your quotation right!!! LOL!