{"id":418,"date":"2006-02-23T23:28:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T05:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2006-02-23T23:47:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T05:47:42","slug":"oil-o-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2006\/02\/oil-o-sol\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil-O-Sol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up, whenever David or I got a cut, a scrape, or a bad sting, our mom would get out the Oil-O-Sol, a reddish-orange, highly viscous liquid that has a smell that, while indescribable, I can recall to this day.  I tore a chunk of skin off my hand setting up a computer yesterday, and went to the drugstore on the way home tonight and asked if they carried it.  None of the druggists had ever heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>A quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=oil-o-sol&amp;btnG=Search\">Google search<\/a> showed lots of hits saying to avoid it in regards to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmetic-cr.com\/procedures_2.htm\">post-op for plastic surgery<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goantiques.com\/detail,,309966.html\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/collectibles.la\/Bottles-Insulators\/Bottles-Insulators-Bottles_17.shtml\">listings<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/collectables.listings.ebay.ca\/Health-Beauty_Medicines-First-Aid_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ21138QQsocmdZListingItemList\">antique bottles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebay.com\/bottles_Medical_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ13QQsacatZ1210\">ads<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zzz.com.ru\/index.php?area=issues&amp;action=show_issue&amp;issue_no=209&amp;session_id=0\">only one<\/a> that had some actual info on it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t find this stuff for sale anywhere except for perhaps eBay.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s no wonder why these old medicines have died out. This stuff contained Linseed Oil (a known skin irritant), Oil of Turpentine ((Mucous membrane and eye irritant. Harmful if inhaled) , Camphor Oil (also an irritant), Oil of Spearmint, and Eucalptus. Egads! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, a bottle of that would have somehow seemed more comforting that the tube of Neosporin I got, even if the latter is more effective.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/oil-o-sol.jpg\" height=\"274\" width=\"183\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Oil-O-Sol\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up, whenever David or I got a cut, a scrape, or a bad sting, our mom would get out the Oil-O-Sol,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-6K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}