Camphor Oil or Camphorated oil - where to buy?

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G'morning,

I've been to every pharmacy in my area trying to locate camphorated oil, ( or camphor oil? ?) and finally was told that it is no longer available for sale. ( Poisonous?)

Is this true? Is it "extinct"?

Any body have an old bottle of camphorated oil they would sell me ?

Judy

-- J McFerrin (JMcFerrin@aol.com), March 09, 2002

Answers

What is it used for?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 09, 2002.

Where are you?In Salem,Mo. you can buy it at wally world or any drug store.ok I just got up to look at the bottle and it reads camphor spirit. It is an oil. I like to put a drop or two in the pot of water I keep on the wood stove.let me know if you really can not find any,I will see that you get some.sw,MO

-- snow white (gawmonk@misn.com), March 09, 2002.

I had the same problem and finally just bought liquid Vicks for the vaporizer,which I believe is mostly camphorated oil.Are you mixing up some fly repelent? Dave (central WI)

-- Dave (duckthis1@mybogusemail.com), March 09, 2002.

You can buy camphor oil(pure essential oil) at most health food stores. The pure oil is stronger & works better, but if you're going to rub it on the skin dilute/cut it either olive oil,almond oil or jojoba oil.I cut it 50-50 but you'll have to decide how strong you want it. You can get the jojoba oil at the health food store too. I use it mostly in soap & incense making but remember my mother rubbing it on my chest as a kid for colds. I've also used it to dry up goats & for mastitis. Best of Luck Kathy

-- Kathy Aldridge (beckoningwinds@yahoo.com), March 09, 2002.

Don't know if it's the same thing, but it's in every drug store:

CamphoPhenique

Active Ingredients ~ Camphorated phenol

-- ~Rogo (rogo2222@hotmail.com), March 09, 2002.



I'm the pharmacist who introduced legislation in Georgia 25 years ago to ban the sale of Camphorated Oil. Babies were dying from the parent giving it instead of Castor Oil. Because both bottles looked so much alike, (clear glass, off-white color) it was an accidental mistake, I'm sure. But the results were deadly.

-- Buddy in east Georgia (Buddybud@csranet.com), March 10, 2002.

Buddy,

That's it! ! That is what one pharmacist told me. It was banned because children were being poisened!

Why couldn't the packaging have been changed?

When I was a child I had a wart on a finger. . . . .and the family doctor told my mother to cover it with camphorated oil, put on a bandaid and to keep it covered that way. . . and one day when I went to change the bandaid the wart would be gone. It happened just as he said it would.

Years later - - I removed another wart the same way.

Now, I have a huge wart on my shoulder and I've tried several remedies and nothing has made a dent in that wart. . . . . . .and I NEED some camphorated oil ! ! ! ! ! Laughing.

Honest - - if anyone has an old bottle of camphorated oil - - I will pay dearly - or make a wonderful trade for it. Send me an EMAIL ! (JMcFerrin@aol.com)

-- J McFerrin (JMcFerrin@aol.com), March 10, 2002.


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