Cooling Mist

[tkingdoll]

I was at a familly barbeque yesterday and my mum was spraying her arms with something from an aerosol can. She asked me if I wanted to try it, and called it "Cooling Mist". I asked what it was, and she said it was a special spray to cool you down.

I looked at the front of the can and saw that it was rather vague in terms of what the spray actually was. That can only mean one of two things. Either it contains something it shouldn't, or it contains bugger all.

I opted for "bugger all", and, without turning the can round and reading the ingredients, I said to her "I suspect this is just water".

"No", She said, "it's a proper spray to cool you down".

It's interesting that consumers will think that a special ingredient will cool you down, but that mere water will not.

I turned over the can and read the back. Ingredients: Purified Water.

I showed my mum and she admitted she'd paid 99p for it. For a can of water!

I told her that Notcutts sell plant sprayers for 59p which hold 10 times as much and are refillable forever.

Cooling Mist, indeed. It was a pretty small can, too, how much aluminium and propellent is wasted on this crap?

>:(

[Jessie]

I've seen those sprays in the Chemist...... like you say, what an absolute waste.

I want one of these :-



To be delivered in approx. five minutes time would be nice

[Mojo]

If it's still as hot as this at 10:30 this evening I'll be spending half an hour listening to something relaxing in a bath full of cold water (it's very pleasant in this weather, once you get over the initial shock).

[Aardvark]

My Mum buys exactly the same thing called cooling mist as well. Perhaps our ability to discriminate deteriorates with advancing years, now where did I put those Shakti Stones

[Admin]

Perhaps it's a mother thing as I'm sure that my Mam had some of this spray too. ???

The other thing she bought was a naturalTM headache reliever called 4head. It is basically a stick that you rub on your forehead and it cures headaches!

It had a menthol in it which evaporates so it probably had some sort of cooling effect but that's it. It didn't work and it cost £6.00 for a stick. :o

[Jessie]

Errrr I bought that - the 4Head stuff

Strictly for testing purposes only of course :P

And..... surprise surprise...it did NOT work Smelt nice though :)

[Admin]

People just accept the advertising claims for these things - a look at the ingredients usually helps to work out the bogus products though.

I remember reading a thread about 4head somewhere and people were saying that it worked but for a bad headache you had to take aspirin as well.

[Jessie]

it worked but for a bad headache you had to take aspirin as well.

Bet that isn't mentioned on the packaging

[Aardvark]

People just accept the advertising claims for these things - a look at the ingredients usually helps to work out the bogus products though.

I remember reading a thread about 4head somewhere and people were saying that it worked but for a bad headache you had to take aspirin as well.

Not a big fan of aspirin for a headache myself.

My choice would be co-codamol, available from a Pharmacy. Contains 500mg of paracetamol and just enough codeine (8mg) to make a difference. This even works for those headaches that you have swallowed the night before. :-\

[Admin]

I find Aspirin much better for headaches than Paracetamol. ??? (or is that me succumbing to the placebo effect?)

Is co-codamol available without prescription now? Codeine is an opiate - damn good stuff

JJ's top tip: when drinking copious amounts of alcohol, take 2 aspirin before going to bed and you'll have less of a headache in the morning.

[vbloke]

Don't forget good old caffeine - I sometimes find a good cup of tea/coffee/cola helps with a headache.

Some headaches can be attributed to caffeine withdrawal (at least mine can ???)

It amazed me a while ago to find Neurofen had more caffeine per tablet than Pro Plus

[tkingdoll]

I tend to use the super strength Anadin, they get rid of the headache, give you a caffeine kick, and they come in funky blue jelly capsules that look like space food pills.

[Admin]

Super strength anadins ???

I should get some of them for Sunday mornings

[Aardvark]

I find Aspirin much better for headaches than Paracetamol. ??? (or is that me succumbing to the placebo effect?)

Is co-codamol available without prescription now? Codeine is an opiate - damn good stuff

JJ's top tip: when drinking copious amounts of alcohol, take 2 aspirin before going to bed and you'll have less of a headache in the morning.

Paracetamol plus 8mg codeine can be bought from a Pharmacy when there is a Pharmacist on duty.

Codeine is methyl-morphine which is a controlled drug in Greece.

Higher levels of codeine are only available on prescription.

Carefull taking ASA after consuming alcohol. Beer and spirits can cause gastritis, inflamation of the stomach mucosal lining, ASA is also a direct irritant and once absorbed into the blood can also be an indirect irritant by blocking production of cytoprotective prostaglandins in the gut such as pge2alpha. Paracetamol is not a gastric irritant.

When caffeine is added to analgesics it it usually at a level of 30mg to act as a co- analgesic. This is similar to a cup of expresso coffee.

Aardvarks advice after drinking heavily
1 Rehydrate with 1 pint of water or diluted OJ
2 Eat a banana for potassium and starch
3 Take a couple of analgesics of your choice

A good path to follow is to drink a full glass of water for each glass of wine.

[doubting thomas]

Aardvark said:-

Aardvarks advice after drinking heavily
1 Rehydrate with 1 pint of water or diluted OJ
2 Eat a banana for potassium and starch
3 Take a couple of analgesics of your choice

A good path to follow is to drink a full glass of water for each glass of wine.


At last, some sensible advice from someone who should know.

The only difference with me is to leave out item 3, i almost never take pain killers of any kind.