Quote from stonedinvestor:
While some of these customs seem outlandish in the extreme, others do contain a grain of truth: treatments with urine can indeed be quite effective especially when it comes to skin problems such as acne or neurodermatitis, wounds, burns, but also skin diseases like shingles.
Stoney, if urine was such a great cleaner, how is it possible to get , for example, a urine stained toga?
Aspects of this were covered, in Tony Robinson's fantastic series, "Worst jobs in history", where wool cleaners stomped around in a vat of villagers pee, with a few wool fleeces obviously, stripping the lanolin, "de-greasing" the wool.
I dont recall if it was the uric acid, or ammonia that did the trick, but it was aged for a while.
Now, that is one screwed up job.
I'm not saying, I don't buy that number ones have powerfull cleaning agents within them, im saying i WOULDN'T buy it-I dont know that anyone else would, either, when you consider how popular cotton became, so quickly.
Imagine, nobility, royalty wearing the finest woollen garments at the time.......every lackey, every wag, would say "sure, he thinks he's king shit-but we all peed on his coat, hardy hardy harrr..so, how's the assasination plot coming along?" or something like that.
It would be so difficult to market....what would you call it, "Stain-Piss off!" or something.
We already have civet-poop coffee, recycled water proposals, you name it, but recycling can go too far, imo.
Naturally, im going to say, well i dont think it could work-do you have a number 2 option?



only I got a hello kitty band aid