Ok gentlemen, and ladies of course.
The mad sientist experiment has gotten som results.
First I don't recommend doing any of this, if you get hurt, it was your decision to try it.
Last night I mixed up a concoction of menthol and grain alcohol to more or less see if it would work. Well it did, quiet nicely too. According to what I read, menthol has a rather low melting point, around 100 deg F. That means it will melt in a cup of hot water drawn from the tap. It will also stay in suspension in alcohol, grain alcohol was the nearest thing I could use instead of denatured alcohol. I could not find 190 proof, but I found 151 proof. So mad sientist hat on, backwards of course, and off a mixing.
First thing about menthol crystals is that if you touch them they will melt getting it on your fingers, not good so I used gloves and safety glasses too. I got an old plastic bottle and shook about 1/4 full, but if I were to pack them down, probably closer to 1/8 full. Then I filled the bottle 1/2 full with alcohol.
The crystals just sat there. So I heated the bottle with the stuff in it in a pan of hot tap water, then shook it every few minutes. That melted the crystals and they were suspended in the alcohol.
To make sure they were mixed, I put it into the fridge over night, the next morning it was still just liquid.
It worked!
Now I'm not going into checking strength, but I used 100 ml of warm water adding small amounts till I was satisfied.
It came to about 2 ml menthol mix for 100 ml after shave.
I put 1 ml in my half full Stirling bay rum.
Then I tried it, works fine. Now because the AS has alcohol in it, the menthol will stay in suspension.
I don't want anyone to use these instructions for home use, its just a description of what I did. I take no responsibility for you messing up your health or your life.
Got it! Good!
If this is the wrong place to post it, well, sorry. Please move it.
I like pictures so....
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I'm going back to the shaving thing now.
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