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The Official Menthol Lover's Thread
#28560222 - 11/29/23 12:01 AM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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For those who love menthol, camphor, peppermint, and eucalyptus types of products, this is the place to discuss. Topical use, smoking use, oral (cough drops), etc.
Cough drop season is here and I love sucking on a high menthol (15mg) cough drop while smoking weed. It cools the smoke down so it doesn't burn my throat. Ricola is the best. Their original herb and 15mg cool menthol are where it's at.
I also like camphorated things for topical use. It makes a warming feeling on the skin and stimulates nerve cells. High percentage is the best. Tiger balm is probably something every one of you knows about. Try it out some time.
I love rubbing a mentholated product on my muscles and then going into a hot tub once the cooling feeling kicks in. I can feel the ice cold of the product and the extreme heat of the hot tub at the same time and it's one of the most awesome feelings ever.
I use the pure menthol and pure camphor crystals in a body balm I like to make. When you work with these, make sure you wear your vapor proof goggles to protect your eyes.
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Next to my computer stands a kilo of l-menthol crystals.
Every now and then I open the cap and inhale. Because its a large mass, it gives off enough to cool my lungs nicely in one inhalation without need for heat.
I'm thinking of melting a kilo xylitol and putting in 10gr menthol to make sugar free mints. Havent decided how to portion it yet though.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Asante]
#28560272 - 11/29/23 03:12 AM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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I recently got sick and Vicks severe cough drops saved me a few times. 20mg and one of the strongest and best tasting cough drops I've had.
I have some bio freeze i got from my physical therapist and it's super strong, I love the smell of it for some weird reason. Just gotta be careful you don't that shit near your jibbly bits. ..I learned the hard way
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Sofaking420]
#28560293 - 11/29/23 04:13 AM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Where are all the UK raver Vicks Inhaler addicts?
heavenly stuff.
Vicks in general makes good mixes. Vicks Vapo Rub is a brilliant example.
Espeially now with covid, always have a bag of cough lozenges in case you get an airway infection. better relief than cough syrup.
Anta Flu is good for that, like the name suggests.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Asante]
#28560494 - 11/29/23 09:21 AM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Menthol cigarettes are good once in a while. They are banned in Canada though. Occasionally I can get counterfeit menthols though and enjoy them.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Asante] 1
#28561014 - 11/29/23 04:24 PM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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Asante said: Next to my computer stands a kilo of l-menthol crystals.
Every now and then I open the cap and inhale. Because its a large mass, it gives off enough to cool my lungs nicely in one inhalation without need for heat.
I'm thinking of melting a kilo xylitol and putting in 10gr menthol to make sugar free mints. Havent decided how to portion it yet though.
Make sure to buy the natural kind and not the synthetic kind of pure menthol. Same with camphor, get the stuff that has been distilled from the tree and not made from kerosene.
The natural kind of menthol is edible once diluted.
All kinds of camphor are toxic and inedible.
Edited by OutsideOfMyMind (11/29/23 04:44 PM)
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Ricola original is my favorite hard candy.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: falcon]
#28561634 - 11/30/23 03:19 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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The Mentos song = Heavy Menthol music
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Does anyone have a recipe for some strong mentholated cough drops? Is it just melted sugar and menthol poured into molds?
I want to try to make "ricola" cough drops with some herbs. It doesn't need to be exactly the same, I just want that sweet herbal flavor. Should I do an herbal extraction using some ethanol and evaporate the alcohol and add it into the cough drop mixture?
The herbs they use are elder, horehound, hyssop, lemon balm, linden flowers, mallow, peppermint, sage, thyme, and wild thyme. Do you think some vanilla extract would make the flavor pop?
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There'd probably be a lot of water soluble stuff along with oils and plant debri. I use 150 everclear and French press for mugwort tincture and it's cloudy. Might work better with 95% and a finer filter.
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I love menthol when I'm sick, it's such a soothing thing. Spicy food too to clear up the congestion.
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I dont have a recipe but my guess is that the ricola guys make a very strong "tea" from the herbs, strain, add sugar or sugar substitute and boil it down to a candy.
Sugar alcohols dont caramelize.
xylitol is delightful and good for teeth.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Asante]
#28625620 - 01/18/24 07:51 AM (10 days, 7 hours ago) |
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I don't really use any of the products you mentioned, but I really like the smell of camphor and similar things. Tea tree oil, mothballs...etc. They all smell really nice to me.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Joh.Ke]
#28625726 - 01/18/24 09:47 AM (10 days, 5 hours ago) |
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camphor is best smelled, not eaten, its stimulant but may evoke cramps.
I love the smell of thymol, the unsaturated version of menthol.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: Asante]
#28625986 - 01/18/24 02:25 PM (10 days, 31 minutes ago) |
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Camphor is very toxic. You're not supposed to eat it. You can die by eating a gram of it. You either burn it as an intense like they do in India and the middle east or dilute it and put it on your skin for a warming sensation and to stimulate nerve cells.
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Re: The Official Menthol Lover's Thread [Re: falcon]
#28625992 - 01/18/24 02:34 PM (10 days, 22 minutes ago) |
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falcon said: There'd probably be a lot of water soluble stuff along with oils and plant debri. I use 150 everclear and French press for mugwort tincture and it's cloudy. Might work better with 95% and a finer filter.
So should I do a hot water extraction followed by an ethanol extraction to get everything out?
Do you think Ricola has watered down their formula over the years? For some reason I don't think it tastes as strong as they used to.
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