14-08-2011, 08:04
I have never understood why anyone wants to mess about making their own extracts for creating a topical application product?
I know that buying the bulk powder is cheaper than capsules, but I've spent about £125 ( say 150 USD), including shipping, on PM capsules in a year.
The powder costs about half that I believe but then you have to buy the alcohol for the extraction, and the cream/oil to mix it with, on top, so the actual saving in a year is pretty small. Then you have to spend a lot of time in the makeshift kitchen lab to produce a variable product of unknown and unknowable efficacy.
It would be a lot simpler, and probably more effective more quickly, to simply put the capsules in your mouth and swallow them!
You can then see the effect a given dose has, and vary it if necessary.
If you insist on exterior application, PM is available in cream from direct from suppliers and at least that way you can be reasonably sure that the concentration of effective ingredients is a constant.
Just my thoughts
Pansy Mae
I know that buying the bulk powder is cheaper than capsules, but I've spent about £125 ( say 150 USD), including shipping, on PM capsules in a year.
The powder costs about half that I believe but then you have to buy the alcohol for the extraction, and the cream/oil to mix it with, on top, so the actual saving in a year is pretty small. Then you have to spend a lot of time in the makeshift kitchen lab to produce a variable product of unknown and unknowable efficacy.
It would be a lot simpler, and probably more effective more quickly, to simply put the capsules in your mouth and swallow them!
You can then see the effect a given dose has, and vary it if necessary.
If you insist on exterior application, PM is available in cream from direct from suppliers and at least that way you can be reasonably sure that the concentration of effective ingredients is a constant.
Just my thoughts
Pansy Mae