Has anyone come across Fullers Earth Cream in the DR? This is an old remedy used for absorbing impurities, the cream version comes as a thick grey cream the ingredients of which are:
Kaolin heavy BP 20.76% w/w, zinc oxide BP 4.5% w/w, arachis oil (peanut oil), yellow beeswax (E901), light liquid paraffin, hard paraffin, wool alcohols (from lanolin) and yellow petroleum jelly
My search here has so far produced blank looks. I was asked what it is used for and stupidly said nappy rash :cheeky: whereupon the farmacia produced Desitin which is a completely different substance (white, liquidy not thick cream with the main ingredient being zinc oxide 40% plus various inactive ingredients: BHA - Butylated hydroxyanisole, which is a fat preservative -, Cod Liver Oil, Fragrance, Lanolin, Methylparaben, Petrolatum, Talc, Water).
Failing all else I suppose I could look for the main powder ingredient - clay - but there seem to be conflicting views as to whether this is a hydrated aluminum silicate like Sodium Bentonite
Hydrated Sodium Bentonite | Edible Clay Research
or Calcium Montmorillonite
History of Fuller's Earth, About Fullers Earth - HRP Industries, India
So, my questions to chemists here or anyone else who knows are: does Fullers Earth Cream exist in the DR, is it presented in a different way, what is it called and where might I find it?
Thank you for reading this.
Kaolin heavy BP 20.76% w/w, zinc oxide BP 4.5% w/w, arachis oil (peanut oil), yellow beeswax (E901), light liquid paraffin, hard paraffin, wool alcohols (from lanolin) and yellow petroleum jelly
My search here has so far produced blank looks. I was asked what it is used for and stupidly said nappy rash :cheeky: whereupon the farmacia produced Desitin which is a completely different substance (white, liquidy not thick cream with the main ingredient being zinc oxide 40% plus various inactive ingredients: BHA - Butylated hydroxyanisole, which is a fat preservative -, Cod Liver Oil, Fragrance, Lanolin, Methylparaben, Petrolatum, Talc, Water).
Failing all else I suppose I could look for the main powder ingredient - clay - but there seem to be conflicting views as to whether this is a hydrated aluminum silicate like Sodium Bentonite
Hydrated Sodium Bentonite | Edible Clay Research
or Calcium Montmorillonite
History of Fuller's Earth, About Fullers Earth - HRP Industries, India
So, my questions to chemists here or anyone else who knows are: does Fullers Earth Cream exist in the DR, is it presented in a different way, what is it called and where might I find it?
Thank you for reading this.