I use powdered alum because...

[roaduck]

I use powdered alum because a styptic pencil is too one-trick-pony for me.
I got 100 grams of alum for £2 and put in an airtight titanium tin.

The powder is a lot more versatile - I`m a herbalist and successfully treated a friend`s huge, painful mouth ulcer in 6 hours !
Applied it at 6am - by midday it was gone !

It works well as a good astringent singly but in combination with sodium bicarb and a vasoconstrictor and cicatrisant like cypress essential oil it is a lot more synergistic.

It saved my friend a trip to the dentist - and on advice, definitely involving topical steroids - antibiotics and possible tooth extraction if it spread to the jaw - she went back to work that afternoon and before that she could barely talk and hardly eat.

 

[Stainsor]

How do you apply it for use after shaving?

 

[roaduck]

How do you apply it for use after shaving?

You just dab it on slightly damp skin Stainsor.
The good thing about the powder is there's is no cross-contamination because you're not using an alum bar - so much more hygienic - like using liquid soap instead of a bar.

 

[roaduck]

You just dab it on slightly damp skin Stainsor.
The good thing about the powder is there's is no cross-contamination because you're not using an alum bar - so much more hygienic - like using liquid soap instead of a bar.

If you have an Alum bar and want to powder it Stainsor just grate it or put it in a mortar and pestle and pound it.

I'm a herbalist ; I do it all the time ; it's therapeutic bashing it and making medicine haha !

 

[roaduck]

Get one of these ; done in a jiffy.

Better than these.