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4590 Shannon Gallowglass
shannon66836 Send Email
May 1, 2005
7:44 pm
Unto the Populace of the East Kingdom from Lady Shannon Gallowglass, Kingdom Chronicler: Today is May 1, 2005 and is the beginning of another SCA year. This ...
4591 Dianiam ingen Eochada
dianaim_inge... Send Email
May 3, 2005
6:14 pm
Good Afternoon, My husband has psoriasis and has been going for light therapy for over 6 months. Well, needless to say he has been getting burned 2 – 3...
4592 Avacyn
avecyn Send Email
May 3, 2005
7:48 pm
Infuse St. John's wort in the lightest oil you can find (olive, almond, whatever you can get). Add a few drops of lavender oil per cup of infused St. John's....
4593 silveroak@...
carowynsilve... Send Email
May 3, 2005
8:15 pm
Greetings! I have to be careful of my sun exposure, since I'm white as a ghost and burn in about 10 minutes' direct exposure. Here's what I use: 1) Calendula...
4594 otsisto
alfrdis Send Email
May 3, 2005
8:21 pm
Are you asking for a preventative or a afterburn remedy? If it is afterburn, you need to cool down with vinegar or peppermint water or just plain ol' cool...
4595 otsisto
alfrdis Send Email
May 3, 2005
8:32 pm
Fascinating, I haven't tried that but I heard from someone that uses calendula tea with unflavored gelatin that it worked well on burns. Though he had to keep...
4596 kingstaste@...
kingstaste Send Email
May 3, 2005
11:32 pm
... Any herbal preparation will go bad after 3-5 days, I suppose the gelatin retards the spoilage but three weeks is a really good time for something like this...
4597 Lexie Duvall
ygrainne_rhun Send Email
May 4, 2005
12:26 am
I know this is going to sound strange, but it really works for both. I'd burned my scalp and at the time was using this natural Sray Leave-In Conditioner and...
4598 KatRavenclaw@...
katravenclaw Send Email
May 4, 2005
1:10 am
i used to work in a coffee shop and got burned all the time. I used plain old black tea (orange pekoe and aloe juice (not jell, juice from a health food store)...
4599 Adhaniá
macmullenchild Send Email
May 4, 2005
1:54 am
How about using fresh aloe vera from the leaves? Get a plant, grow it up some, pick and split a leaf anytime you need one. Squeeze out the fresh gel and...
4600 Rhonda Kountz
roma1358 Send Email
May 4, 2005
2:46 am
My favorite is still applecider vinegar packs. it sooths the sting and speeds healing. i also have a honey dusting powder that soothes and provides a cushion...
4601 Ro Bourdeau
mamamoose000 Send Email
May 4, 2005
3:12 am
Aloe vera is a very easy plant to grow and found in most nurseries (at least where I would shop in NY and CT). I used to keep on near my kitchen for years for...
4602 Jason Costarakis
jcostarakis Send Email
May 4, 2005
3:42 am
... i also know people who filet the leaves (?? fronds, stalks dont quite know the correct terminology for succulents) and use them that way, a few who swear...
4603 kingstaste@...
kingstaste Send Email
May 4, 2005
3:53 am
Both this vinegar remedy and the black tea remedy are going to be very drying, something the psoraisis does not need. Great for regular sunburns I'm sure, but...
4604 Lila Richards
sinechnz Send Email
May 4, 2005
10:48 am
... That's what I do - they're great for sunburn! ... I haven't come across this use - must give it a try for my arthritis. Sinech. -- No virus found in this...
4605 Valarie Ziminsky
elzregina Send Email
May 4, 2005
8:25 pm
I have all the ingredients to undertake making a rose cream with the exception of Orange Blossom Essential Oil. I held off on this ingredient due to the...
4606 Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / ...
jenneheise Send Email
May 4, 2005
8:27 pm
... Um. Orange Blossom Essential oil is also Neroli. I suspect you could subsitute Orange Blossom water for some of the Rose water, if it's the recipe I'm...
4607 Aline Swynbrook
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May 4, 2005
8:53 pm
M'lady, While working in the Middle East this past summer as an archaeology field student, I discovered that plain yogurt, smeared on right after a burn both...
4608 LAURA KRUTUL
ladybaron2 Send Email
May 5, 2005
3:00 am
Thus spake Lady Dianaim ingen Eochada: Does anyone have a sunburn recipe that they are wiling to share? Both he and I can't stand the smell of the commercial...
4609 otsisto
alfrdis Send Email
May 5, 2005
4:25 am
doh! Well I feel a bit sheepish. Yep, yogurt. Forgot about that one. It's been years since I was told that remedy. Guess I need to dust off my brain shelves. ...
4610 Apollonia de Avena
apollonia_de... Send Email
May 5, 2005
12:25 pm
You can get some inexpensive essential oils from www.cedarvale.net BUT--I have substituted many different essential oils for the orange blossom. I have even...
4611 Deborah
ladyliadan Send Email
May 5, 2005
2:02 pm
Do leave out the grapefruit essential oil, any citrus essential oil on the skin will tend to make a sunburn worse/more likely in the presence of UV light. ...
4612 Sharon Gordon
amaranthseed Send Email
May 5, 2005
2:04 pm
Please reply directly to James/Jacob ********************************************** From: James Brown Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:37 PM Subject: Beekeepers...
4613 Janet Heckman
hericslady Send Email
May 5, 2005
4:16 pm
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4614 hericslady@...
hericslady Send Email
May 5, 2005
5:23 pm
Sorry .... this should not have went to list/groups .... knew something had messed up when it said I sent to over 70 emails .... Jan...
4615 Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / ...
jenneheise Send Email
May 5, 2005
7:46 pm
A modern service but may be helpful to our gardeners: Reviewed by Librarian's Index to the Internet: The LuEsther T. Mertz Library Plant Information Service ...
4616 Heather Josselyn
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May 5, 2005
7:56 pm
Greetings, from a neophyte gardener! A few weeks ago I wrote about thinning plants, which I started from seeds. Well, I did thin them - I'm down to two or...
4617 Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / ...
jenneheise Send Email
May 6, 2005
9:01 pm
... Hm.. I would let them get at least 6" tall and make sure they are fairly bushy. You never want to harvest more than 1/4 of the plant at a time, and much...
4618 Sharon Gordon
amaranthseed Send Email
May 10, 2005
2:53 am
This announcement was in the SCA newletter SCA Today - http://scatoday.net/ "Corsair, the online research resource for the Pierpont Morgan Library, makes...
4619 Sharon Gordon
amaranthseed Send Email
May 10, 2005
1:40 pm
This announcement was in the SCA newletter SCA Today - http://scatoday.net/ "Corsair, the online research resource for the Pierpont Morgan Library, makes...
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