Oregano oil prostate

I'm not asking for skin care or medical advice, mentally broke auto mod is trash tastic
Anyways this is my recipe:
Lemme know what u think:
Reactive Base:
Lye: 4.3% - saponifying agent
Jewel weed gel: 8.5% - removes poison/ toxins
Soap base:
Mct oil: 14.5% - Caprilic/Capric
Glycerin: 41.5% - humectant
Alchohol: 31.2% - your mom: add after reactive Base and soap base are mixed.
Medicinals in alcohol:
Calendula pedals - triterpenes
Red bee propolis - polyphenols
Aloe ferox bitter - polysachrides
Frankensense tears - boswillic acid
Comfrey leafs - allantoin
Saw palmetto berries - beta sitosterol
EO: % of base weight
Oregano: 1% - Carvacrol/thymol
Cod liver: 1% - vitamin a
Borage: 1% - Gamma Linoleic Acids
Chems:
Sodium citrate: 1% - vitamin c
Sodium lactate: 2% - lactic acid
Sorbitol: 3% - alpha hydroxy acids.

Try this:
Reactive Base:
Lye: 4.3% - saponifying agent
Jewel weed gel: 8.5% - removes poison/ toxins
Soap base:
Mct oil: 14.5% - Caprilic/Capric
Glycerin: 41.5% - humectant
Alchohol: 31.2% - your mom: add after reactive Base and soap base are mixed.
Medicinals in alcohol:
Calendula pedals - triterpenes
Red bee propolis - polyphenols
Aloe ferox bitter - polysachrides
Frankensense tears - boswillic acid
Comfrey leafs - allantoin
Saw palmetto berries - beta sitosterol
EO: % of base weight
Oregano: 1% - Carvacrol/thymol
Cod liver: 1% - vitamin a
Borage: 1% - Gamma Linoleic Acids
Chems:
Sodium citrate: 1% - vitamin c
Sodium lactate: 2% - lactic acid
Sorbitol: 3% - alpha hydroxy acids.
Tell me what u think,

Been looking for advice on making a holistic soap bar, here's what I have so far:
Reactive Base:
Lye: 4.3% - saponifying agent
Jewel weed gel: 8.5% - removes poison/ toxins
Soap base:
Mct oil: 14.5% - Caprilic/Capric
Glycerin: 41.5% - humectant
Alchohol: 31.2% - your mom
Medicinals:
Calendula pedals - triterpenes
Red bee propolis - polyphenols
Aloe ferox bitter - polysachrides
Frankensense tears - boswillic acid
Comfrey leafs - allantoin
Saw palmetto berries - beta sitosterol
EO: % of base weight
Oregano: 1% - Carvacrol/thymol
Cod liver: 1% - vitamin a
Borage: 1% - Gamma Linoleic Acids
Chems:
Sodium citrate: 1% - vitamin c
Sodium lactate: 2% - lactic acid
Sorbitol: 3% - alpha hydroxy acids.
Any thoughts?

Just a quick disclaimer: there’s some tmi details in this post about my experience with parasites and bowel movements.
A year and a half ago i was pretty paranoid that i had parasites so i started to take different supplements I purchased from Amazon which include:
-Paraguard -intestinepro pills (includes black walnut and wormwood) -diatomaceous earth -inulin
And some others like garlic, ginger, cayenne, and oil of oregano
Looking back, i was pretty paranoid and reckless about the supps i was taking and I’m not proud of how I went about things without medical guidance. I was experiencing weird symptoms like: teeth grinding, insomnia, stomach cramps, bad bloating, etc.
I went hard on the supplement for a few months, and i started to notice a lot of yellow mucus in my stool. Then, after about a month of taking paraguard 2-times a day, i passed something which i am sure was a parasite or tape worm. Basically i had a bowel movement, and lets just say what came out was pretty much dangling from my butt and reached the back of my knee. This had to have been a tapeworm right? It was like a foot and a half long and i had to pull it out.
I should also note that during the time I was “cleansing” my symptoms were a million times worse, plus my face was extremely bloated and fat, and i had a really horrible rash develop on my lower stomach in my gut area, which I’m assuming was a result of die off?
I’ve lost a lot of weight in my face after this happened, but my stomach still bloats like crazy whenever i eat, and I don’t really eat much throughout the day? So I’m wondering if I still have parasites. I want to see a gastroenterologist but I don’t have health insurance at the moment, and the last time I mentioned it to a gastro he was kind of dismissive toward me. I bought another paraguard but I’m just worried that I might damage my gut by using these products. I’m also a bit traumatized from the last experience and I’m scared about seeing more parasites in bowel movements.
Has anyone ever used these products before? And if so did you see results? Is it also okay to use things like paraguard occasionally throughout the year?

Does anybody used herbal protocol for hydrogen Sibo with Oregano Oil and NAC? I’m on a 3rd week and have trouble sleeping. Could it be related?

le sigh
here we go again…
are you actually interested in this topic, or are you only interested in being an asshole to people who are here minding their own business and eating what they please? you are the one coming into this community with your ignorance and rudeness on full display. no one here gives a shit what you think or what you eat, and educating sea lions is not our job
one would think that if you’re actually interested in the research, you could spend a few minutes looking for yourself
but you’re too busy being an asshole, so here. take this few minutes’ worth of research instead. this is not all the available evidence or even the "best" evidence. it's just the first available evidence for the lazy -- what an idiot like myself can find with 5 minutes and a mote of curiosity. if you don’t like these particular studies for any reason, you know where to find google…
with regard to controlled experiments, the work of the Deol lab at UC riverside on soybean oil is pretty interesting (with the obvious limitations of animal studies)
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/07/03/widely-consumed-vegetable-oil-leads-unhealthy-gut
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/01/17/americas-most-widely-consumed-oil-causes-genetic-changes-brain
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/soybean-oil-may-be-more-fattening-fructose-or-coconut-oil
in other research, omega 6 was found to be the only class of fatty acids whose intake is associated with melanoma risk in people:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035072/
corn oil also comes out looking pretty badly in terms of skin neoplasms and malignancies in mice
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6647039/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/19098118_Relation_of_antioxidants_and_levels_of_dietary_lipid_to_epidermal_lipid_peroxidation_and_UV-Carcinogenesis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8973605/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1502263/
increased risk of metabolic syndrome among people who cook with canola and sunflower oils (but no increased risk for those cooking with olive oil or butter):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116055/
an animal study that finds canola oil increases bodyweight and alzheimer's-like symptoms:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719422/
a study suggesting that sunflower oil induces inflammation in animals:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441046/
and another showing that dietary linoleic acid induces obesity -- while reducing linoleic acid to 1% of energy intake reversed obesity even in the context of a diet with 60% of calories coming from fat:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22334255/
a controlled study finds that a high-omega-6 diet induces cardiac necrosis, reduces mitochondrial function, and induces structural abnormalities in mitochondria in rats with diabetes. it reduces cardiolipin in both diabetic and non-diabetic rats, and dramatically increases blood glucose, triglycerides, and insulin levels in control rats
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/ajpheart.00480.2004 (or see summary here https://tuckergoodrich.substack.com/p/whats-worsecarbs-or-seed-oils-understanding )
rats fed a high fat (almost 60% of total energy intake) vegetable-oil diet develop fatty livers, while those fed a similarly high fat diet based on lard do not:
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/7/11/5480/pdf (don't miss the shocking photo of the livers in Figure 3)
reanalysis of a 5-year double-blind RCT dietary intervention study in humans in the US shows no benefit and possible harm (in terms of death risk) from replacing saturated fats with vegetable oils high in linoleic acid
https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
a 7-year dietary intervention study in cardiac patients finds increased mortality and cardiovascular disease in the group advised to replace saturated fats with safflower oil rich in omega 6:
https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8707
a meta-analysis of RCTs finds that high omega 6 diets are associated with increased risk of heart attacks and death in people:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/n6-fatty-acidspecific-and-mixed-polyunsaturate-dietary-interventions-have-different-effects-on-chd-risk-a-metaanalysis-of-randomised-controlled-trials/938F3F74E18033ED061F7D8CEAB0A24A
"Higher ratio of plasma omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids is associated with greater risk of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality"
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90132
"recent studies have found a positive association between omega-6 and breast cancer risk"
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-10-50#ref-CR25
"a statistically significant increase in [breast cancer] risk was observed in individuals belonging to the highest quartile of n-6 fatty acid consumption (RR=1.87"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14583770/
"An increased risk of breast cancer was associated with increasing ω-6 PUFA intake in premenopausal women [OR = 1.92"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22194528/
"Women with higher intake (highest tertile) of n-6 PUFA had an increase risk for breast cancer (RR = 2.06"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20878979/
"Compared with women without atypia [a biomarker for short-term risk of breast cancer development], those with cytologic atypia... had lower omega-3:6 ratios in plasma TAGs and breast TAGs"
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerpreventionresearch/article/8/5/359/50426/Omega-3-and-Omega-6-Fatty-Acids-in-Blood-and
"a significant increased risk [of breast cancer] was observed among those with high intakes of omega-6 PUFAs"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18636564/
"Omega-6 fats cause prostate tumors to grow twice as fast"
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/02/97814/omega-6-fats-cause-prostate-tumors-grow-twice-fast
highest quartile of omega-6 intake is associated with 1.98-fold relative risk of rectal cancer
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373878/
"high intake of ω-6 has been found to correlate with a high risk of breast, prostate, and colon cancer incidence in many animal and human studies, and the ratio of ω-6 to ω-3 was suggested to be a predictor of cancer progression."
https://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-boletin-medico-del-hospital-infantil-401-articulo-role-diets-rich-in-omega-3-S1665114616301423
but hey, maybe you're skeptical of the "i did my research" crowd. anyone can dig up a few studies. maybe you prefer the word of trusted academic medical institutions. cool, cool...
Mount Sinai: "a diet rich in omega-6 fatty acids may promote breast cancer development."
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/supplement/omega-6-fatty-acids
Cleveland Clinic: seed oils have "no real health benefits and more than a few health risks."
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/seed-oils-are-they-actually-toxic
Brigham and Women's Hospital: "eating too many foods that are rich in omega-6 fatty acids (especially vegetable oils such as corn, safflower and cottonseed oils) appears to promote inflammation."
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/patients-and-families/meals-and-nutrition/bwh-nutrition-and-wellness-hub/special-topics/anti-inflammatory-lifestyle
UCSF Medical Center: "Omega-6 fatty acids may stimulate growth of prostate cancer cells. These fatty acids are found in corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil and other polyunsaturated oils."
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/nutrition-and-prostate-cancer
MD Anderson Cancer Center: "Omega-6 fats are primarily in vegetable oils. Inflammation can occur if a diet is higher in omega-6 fats than omega-3. To reduce chronic inflammation and cancer risk, eat fewer omega-6 rich foods."
https://www.mdanderson.org/documents/Departments-and-Divisions/Clinical-Nutrition/Nutrition-Basics-for-Patients-and-Caregivers.pdf
Duke University Health System: limiting soybean oil "reduces the potential negative effects of too much omega-6, which is believed to contribute to the increased risk of infections and other complications"
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/new-intravenous-lipid-nutrition-cuts-pediatric-hospitalizations-and-infections
Beth Israel Medical Center: "Some fats contain omega-6 fatty acids (e.g., soybean oil) that, in certain diseases, can worsen the inflammation and complicate the recovery process. This is currently an intense area of investigation."
https://www.bidmc.org/research/research-by-department/medicine/clinical-nutrition/food-groups-and-formulations/fat
Washington University School of Medicine: "reducing the amount of linoleic acid — a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid — in food aided children’s neurological abilities. The composition of omega-6 fatty acid thwarts production of DHA, which is essential for brain development and is associated with improved vision, heart health and immune function... Therapeutic food should be reformulated to reduce omega-6. "
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/enhanced-therapeutic-foods-improve-cognition-in-malnourished-children/
University of Chicago Medical Center: "fried foods, soaked in oil with Omega 6 fatty acids, can be pro-inflammatory"
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/gastrointestinal-articles/2020/septembewhat-foods-cause-or-reduce-inflammation
University of Texas Health System: "diets high in omega-6 served as a significant risk factor for inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Lowering omega-6 and increasing omega-3 greatly reduced these pain conditions. Skin levels of omega-6 lipids were strongly associated with pain levels and the need for analgesic drugs."
https://news.uthscsa.edu/western-high-fat-diet-can-cause-chronic-pain-according-to-groundbreaking-paper-by-ut-health-san-antonio-led-team/

Hello guys, I have been dealing with constant constipation for almost a month and a couple weeks. This all happened out of a sudden and I do not know why. My stools appear to be fluffy and looks like I might have undigested food in them. I take lots of fiber and tried eating clean but a symptom that really stood out the most is that my farts do not smell like anything anymore. It’s really affected my life style a lot. I used to drink alcohol some what heavily but I eased up on it. I only drink occasionally or when I attended an event. I just want to know how to get rid of this. I have been taking digestive enzymes and they have seemed to help a bit but not a lot. Any other tips ? Might start taking oil of oregano soon. I’m just confused on why my farts do no longer smell anymore could it be because of the type of sibo I might have? Or would it even be sibo since my farts do not smell? Since i assume they should because it is a bacteria. (Edit) I forgot to mention that I do drink lots and lots of water almost a gallon a day so it’s not due to lack of water consumption. I am also a 24 y/o male

I lived in an apartment for four months before I found out there was black mold, and it also doesn’t help that I was drinking a lot of beer Oct/nov. I got BV in dec and it triggered a yeast infection that now comes back every month. I have completely kicked the BV but the yeast is sticking around.
I get a Fluconazole rx (2 pills) and do monistat 7, I get back to normal, then 3-4 weeks later, it’s back. I’m finally going to a pcp next week, and hopefully she can help, but I really feel like I need more than 2 pills. Maybe I’ll just do monistat 7 for longer than 7 days? My appt isn’t until the 28th.
I also know it’s coming back because I start getting itchy. I had unbearably itchy skin and I finally solved that by using dandruff shampoo as body wash.
Along with that I’m going to start regularly taking oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract, and vitamin c (and a bunch of other shit I take for my migraines). I’m really forgetful with vitamins but I already take propranolol for my migraines so I’m just gonna take vitamins/supplements when I take that. Also water intake, so bad at that recently but I just have to keep up with it.
I’m tempted to do a parasite cleanse, but I’m not super well versed on it.
Any recs on what to do or tell the dr?

When I was a kid, a locally owned steakhouse in my town served Romanian Steak. I absolutely LOVE a perfectly cooked ribeye with a side of my secret recipe horseradish sauce, but this marinated flank steak has a special place in my heart. I have tried desperately to recreate the marinade but nothing hits quite right. Anyone have any suggestions? The marinade I'm trying right now is:
½ cup olive oil
½ cup soy sauce
⅓ cup Worcestershire sauce
¼ cup balsamic vinegar
¼ cup red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons of freshly chopped garlic
2 big squirts of Dijon mustard
Minced fresh thyme, rosemary and oregano (maybe about 2 tablespoons of each?)
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
About a teaspoon of diamond kosher salt
I'm slightly worried about the soy sauce but I've tried it with just the vinegars and it's a little too acidic.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Merci!
Editing to add a little backstory
For this dish, it seems like you're typically marinating a flank steak in a pretty acidic marinade for a couple of days to really tenderize it so it can be eaten with a knife and fork like you would a ribeye as opposed to something like fajitas. It's very flavorful and I realize part of my love is a deep nostalgia but I'm ok with that. It was a small, local steakhouse in Virginia Beach, VA called Jimmy's Steakhouse. And because it was a flank steak, cheaper than most of the other steak options on the menu. My parents always encouraged us to have it because then all 5 of us could have steak and it was a much lower tab. They also had the thinnest shoestring fries I've ever had and a delicious homemade dressing that was similar to ranch and a side salad where they shredded the cheese in house. It's one of those things that has just stayed with me since childhood. Jimmy's has since closed down but someone in the family opened a restaurant called Angie's near my parents in Chesapeake and they've got the family Romanian Steak recipe on the menu as a special occasionally. I now live about 1600 miles from home and maybe when I make it home one day, I'll get to have it at Angie's again. Until, I'm going to keep experimenting to capture nostalgia in a plastic bag with a flank steak.

Hi all, I am very new to sinus issues. About 2 months ago I had a very minor cold where I ended up coughing up green phlegm for weeks after, but the phlegm was definitely coming from post nasal drip. I went to the doctor thinking maybe I have a sinus infection as I was getting headaches as well and she gave me reactin and looked in my nose/throat and told me it didn’t look bacterial so to proceed with antihistamines and netti pot rinses. Then about a week after this appointment, I got a horrible cold again with fever, sore throat, congestion the whole 9 yards. This was 2 weeks ago now, and I’m left with the worst post nasal drip i’ve ever had, horcking up loads of green phlegm and sinus pressure in my forehead and behind my eyes. Not much actual congestion though or any runny nose. Horrible fatigue though. I just got some Xlear nasal spray today and am going to try some oil of oregano steam inhalation in the next few days.. I really want to avoid antibiotics if I can, but how long can I try these natural remedies safely? I’ve heard of infection spreading to your brain and becoming life threatening and i’m terrified. How long can you safely see if you can ride out an infection with at home remedies? Is two weeks after a cold too long? Please help if you have any other advise for flushing this thing out of my system.

I had recurrent BV for about a year and was constantly self treating with boric acid, which never worked for me and the BV symptoms would always come back. I even tried metrogel, but made the mistake of using dove sensitive soap on my vag (which still triggers my BV, my vag is crazy sensitive!!). Anyways, I decided to stop all boric acid usage and stopped using any soap on my vagina. I started using phd sensitive wash for my behind just to be extra safe / prevent further disrupting my vag and this greatly helped my problem. I also began to take oregano oil and a daily women’s probiotic, as well as incorporating greek yogurt into my diet everyday. I also take a shot of apple cider vinegar everyday and doing all of these things have caused my recurrent BV to go away. I hope I can help some people who have tried everything, I think that overdoing it with the boric acid caused more harm than good for me since I was wiping out the good bacteria and not replacing the good bacteria fast enough 😭 and I also want to emphasize that some people may be sensitive to ANY sort of soap down there, so using just water to clean is very helpful. And like I said before, using a ph balanced wash for your butt so you don’t accidentally get a harsh soap near your gurl

Can I do some natural treatment right after I finish my antibiotics ?
Also what is reccomended as natural treatment ? Ive read some posts and heres whaf I got:
-Cabbage juice -oregano oil -Mastic gum -NAC -Matula tea but its expensive so I dont know if im going to take it just yet -Cranberry juice -omega 3
What else would you guys reccomend ?
And also what food should I be eating or avoiding during natural treatment ?

I apologize, the reason this is so long is because 1.) I suck at summarizing 2.) backstory of some sort is needed to understand this excuse of a man and/or human being. 3.) I’m not a good storyteller, but you are, Charlotte, and I know you can take this mess of info and turn it into a beautiful, long-time-coming, petty revenge story for your channel. Because what is more petty than an herbal, flowery Trojan horse no one knows about?
Cast: OP-me Swister- my older sister Mom - mine and my sister’s mom, grandmother to Trish/Patty BIL- exactly who it says, and a huge butthole. Patty/Trish - the same person, a four year old little girl, product of union between BIL and Swister.
Some (bit rambling to explain some stuff) backstory:
Last winter, to get out of the horrible, freezing, painfully striking sleet (it would not pass over our town, was just there, stuck in a vortex, for what seemed like eternity) of January in our hometown (we were always just a couple degrees away from it being snow, and quite a few times we got lots of hail, some as big as softballs, and could damage cars and punch through windshields, etc. I know this sounds like ‘The Long Winter’ by Laura Ingalls Wilder, but both me and my mom (I’m disabled and have to live with someone to help in every day life, I’m not a high school dropout living in mommy’s basement playing fortnight or assassin’s creed and have memorized cheat codes. The only video games I’ve ever played were duck hunt, which my grandpa actually got for himself bc he loved to hunt, so I only got to play it in turns with my five other cousins when we visited him); and N64’s Zelda:Ocarina of Time. I hope those titles illustrate for you the last time I played a video game. Oh! And the Oregon Trail, but I always died of some disease that doesn’t happen today or is curable with fluids, rest, and maybe some penicillin. But I digress.) but both me and my mom and my older sister (who was pregnant at the time) and BIL moved about 15 minutes down a little used two lane highway. And when my niece was born late 2019, we named her Patricia after my grandmother. (Patty or Trish for short).
My BIL claims he can smell everything ten times better than any other human, ‘probably because I’m an Alpha Male, and I need heightened senses to protect my pack, my family.’ Okay, I won’t deny he is sensitive to scent, but if his food doesn’t come out smelling right (almost always made special order bc of his ‘allergies’ (that’s what he tells the waitress; in reality, he just doesn’t want stuff he doesn’t like on his plate, and is too fucking lazy to just take the single pickle chip off the McDonald’s cheeseburger. If half of America can do it, why not him? ‘I might smell and taste it with my superhuman olfactory senses.’ He said with a very sincere, serious tone and face, like I was in special education and couldn’t understand it was 1,2,3, not 1,3,2. He is an arrogant misogynistic asshole. My sister could have done sooooooo much better. Idk y she chose him to marry (for a general idea of all what he looks like, speaks like, and sounds like (minus the slight lisp) is the video of the ‘dating coach’ who took the video in his car, opening it with ‘you do not have to accept her rejection, say things like I’m the best, why wouldn’t you want me, you should see my basement with ropes and pulleys and hooks, and do you know what a did with her that night? Well, it’s not appropriate to talk about on this platform”… yeah, that guy, except for the lisp, could be my BIL IDENTICAL twin. Anyway, now you know BIL is a creepy, asshole, bastard with no sense of boundaries or personal space, who think women are lesser than him. Moving on.
I also suffer from anxiety, insomnia, and a few other things that require me to take meds that can slow down your breathing, so if I can take care of my pain, anxiety, and insomnia without having to take a narcotic or benzo, and it works, I choose that path first. Some of these ways are ice packs, heating pads, a special herbal tea, aromatherapy, yoga, sleeping surrounded by pillows like I were in a nest, making sure to do a little bit of some exercise and always taking my daily walks (I don’t want the pain to get so bad from being sedentary I will require a wheelchair before I absolutely have to) and don’t always want to be popping clonapen or oxy or morphine all day and falling asleep, especially around my niece. I don’t want her to ever believe pills fix problems.
So to escape the horrible winter in our new home environment, my mom decided to use her saved-up reward points and book us all a ten day trip to Disney Aulani Hawaii, specifically Disney bc of my niece. My mom and I had been there before, in 2020, right when resorts opened back up at much less than capacity because of COVID rules, and we had gone for a week, so I knew they had an awesome spa I could spend my saved vacation money on.
The minute we step into our two bedroom, two full bath (each with both a shower and separate tubs!), an ok sized but capable kitchen, and a nice, big, comfy furniture filled common room/living room. All of my stuff I put in the room I’d be sharing with my mom, then took my niece to go and get her first Shirley Temple (they are a virgin cocktail I have loved as a kid, still do, that are super easy to make the ghetto way - diet 7up (diet taste better in the cocktail, idk why, it just the way the Gods have decreed it so), grenadine, and maraschino cherries (as many as you want, but kids usually get two and adults one. I think this is unfair) and tada! You have a Shirley Temple.
So I’m walking back to the room, both of us holding our reusable drink cups for our stay (if you bring the cup with you, you get any non alcoholic drink for free during your stay. Coolcool.) And I open the door and hear my mom and sister begging BIL to just stop it, let it go, just enjoy the ten days here. BIL is in MY room, going through MY things, yelling at mom and sis to leave him alone, he has to find it, it reeks, etc. I’m like, GTFO of my stuff, this is extremely violating, sister, are you not concerned and pissed he is pawing through my bra and panties right now, ‘looking for hidden pockets’?
Finally, he grabs this 15 or 20 mL vial I have, a pain relieving roll on I use for my migraines and tension headaches, about $55 after tax, not including S&H. I had left my almost empty one at home, and this was a brand new vial, safety wrapping still on. He blames me, said I was trying to ruin ‘his hard earned vacation’ (he has no job, only looks after my niece enough to feed her (most of the time) and my sister had to find a high -enough paying job so she could work from home so she could do every job like she were a single mother. The only chore he does, and only like 65% of the time (they love to eat out and/or order in) is cooking, and as much as I hate him, sometimes his dishes are good. Not phenomenal, like he practically requires everyone to praise it as, even if he just added sage basil and oregano to a frozen pizza.
So I ask, “how the hell can you smell that? There is the outer plastic seal and the inner lid seal?” And he goes off on being an Alpha Males and olfactory nonsense. Then he takes the vial and runs out of the room with it. He takes it to a housekeeping services cart several doors down and spikes I into her trash can, which by the thunk sound the vial made told me not only was her trash nearly or almost nearly empty, and that he had broken and wasted a valuable medical tool because he is batshit crazy and doesn’t see me as a person outside of how I interact with his everyday life, like I’m a NPC who doesn’t exist or say anything until a real person player comes into my field of awareness. He pawed through every item I owned, including underwear and opening my tampons one to sniff (I especially bought no scented for this trip, and he went and ruined a whole box of them (I’m not putting a previously opened and practically stuck up my BIL’s nose tampons! It’s not just unsanitary, it’s gross on so many levels! I also save up what little money I have leftover from my SSDI monthly checks, so over several months, I had saved up to buy that, bc it worked where others just smelled good but didn’t take the tension headache or migraine away. He has never had to pay for things with his own money, so has no concept of it, of saving money, of worth.
I stewed and stewed and I knew I had to be as petty as possible and still not get caught. I was still thinking these thoughts on our third to last day while I got an unusual massage at the Aulani spa. First is usual deep tissue massage, but then they rub your back and skin with tingly oils and take what looks like the contents of a bag of tea (very heady and fragrant in that small room) and rub it all over you, wrap you up for 15 min, scrape it off you, also taking excess body oil and dead skin cells with it as it goes. And then, smelling all those wonderful scents, I had a genius thought. As she scraped the herbs and stuff off my skin into a bowl, I asked for a to go bag for the herbs, and pretended I wanted to put them in a foot bath I was giving myself tonight in my room. Shockingly, they agreed, and gave me all the scrapings, herbs, essential &body oils, and dead skin cells, in a linen drawstring bag they said I could just toss the whole bag into the hot water.
Now, when I travel, I always pack duct tape in my checked baggage. To make sure shampoo, conditioner, lotion, stuff like that, wet and messy? So it will stay in the bottle with the top duct taped both on shut and to the top of the bottle. Nobody was in the room; they were taking a hike my physical disabilities made very challenging (like an 7-8/10 for me, and a 3.4.5/10 for them) over broken terrain and off trail a bit to climb to a waterfall, so I had said ‘I’m going to the spa. Peace!’ So nobody was back from the hike yet, but I had no idea when they would be, so I acted fast. I grabbed my duct tape and went into sister and BIL’s room and squished and squiggled my way as far under the bed as I could, an duct taped the linen bag of herbs and scrapings right under where he would lay his head to rest at night (according to his ‘Alpha Wolf’ status, he was always on the side of the bed between the door and the rest of his collectables in his room.
We had that day, two more days, and three nights left. BIL did not sleep a wink during that entire time - he had housekeeping change the bedding (including duvets and their covers) several times in that small frame of time, and demanded of my mom to rent him (on my moms dime, not this 40 y o mans money, the mooching leach, but her carefully budgeted money and visa card points hoarded over years.) his own, just perfectly sanitized room, obviously something had been left here by a former guest that was rotting. Finally, FINALLY my mom and sister had HAD IT. He whined and moaned more than my four yo niece. They finally ripped him a new one, saying he had been acting like an entitled baby man with delusions he is more important than he is, that we as women should fawn over him, and that he had already ruined all of ours, but especially my vacation by tossing my personal property and screaming at me for wearing perfume when I didn't even pack any. At one point I even piped up, ‘I didn’t put up with my father treating me like this, what makes you think I’m gonna take it from you?’ (AN/OP: my father abused me and mom and sister our whole lives. Lots of verbal, emotional, psychological abuse. Sister had it pretty literally; mom had it worst. But when my dad had 100% custody of me at beginning of divorce, my sister went away to college and moved out within the following two weeks, and I was his sole remaining target. For three years straight. Other, even more horrible disgusting things he did to me I’ve only just started to talk about, and don’t want my whole life blasted online while I deal.
So i got my silent, sweet-smelling revenge. For those 3 days and 3 nights, he didn't sleep a wink, which meant he couldn't keep his 'good guy' image up, and everyone saw how he treats me, and I'm no longer a liaexaggerating. I hope some act of God, or him driving around while completely wasted, as he does every single freaking day. He a waste of space, a waste of oxygen.
Again, the reason this is so long is because 1.) I suck at summarizing 2.) backstory of some sort was needed 3.) I’m not a good storyteller, but you are, Charlotte, and I know you can take this mess of info and turn it into a beautiful, long-time-coming, petty revenge story for your channel. Because what is more petty than an herbal, flowery Trojan horse type thing?
PS: he never did repay me for the OVER $300 worth of MY STUFF he upped and just tossed, or first broke then tossed, because it either offended his nose or him, personally, even though he begrudgingly promised to do so, and my sister promised he would. I only had like a 10% belief he would, but he has no money of his own, how was he gonna do that? Yes, I admit, I keep a record of anything I hear about him doing something negative, so one day if my sister even starts to consider divorce, I can whip out journal/notebook and show her his patterns, and he has always been this way, and he won’t ever change.

I've had Scabies in the last year so it's why I've got these symptoms quicker. I've met a guy 2 weeks ago and these have shown up. I've put oregano oil and clove oil on it. Not sure if it working or not.
It hasn't really been that itchy either. But I'm planning to buy permethrin just incase.
God, I really hate the fact I'm going through this again. 😭

I've had Scabies in the last year so it's why I've got these symptoms quicker. I've met a guy 2 weeks ago and these have shown up. I've put oregano oil and clove oil on it. Not sure if it working or not.
It hasn't really been that itchy either. But I'm planning to buy permethrin just incase.
God, I really hate the fact I'm going through this again. 😭