Advantages: Cheap, lasts a long time, brilliant for sore muscles, better than Radox Disadvantages: None
Tired, tense, aching muscles? Then this is the product for you. Forget Radox herbal baths, they're not as good as this wonder green liquid!
At £2.75 for 500 ml, you're getting a good deal as a bottle lasts for quite a few baths.
It comes in a chunky plastic bottle with a green lid and the liquid, if it could be called that, is fairly thick and green.
As I often suffer with joint and muscle pain due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (see my other op on this) I have tried many bath foams for aching muscles but this one is the best yet and really does work. I use it every time I have a bath and wouldn't be without it.
All you need is a capful to produce loads of lovely bubbles and you can wallow in it up to your ears. The smell is sort of clinical but not in an unpleasant way, the nearest I could describe it to is a menthol, eucalyptus ...
Advantages: gave brief 30 second cooling effect Disadvantages: didn't work
My partner has a habit of accidently burning himself whilst cooking on a rather frequent basis, so after seeing Elastoplast burn reliefspray on the first aid shelf we thought we would give it a go as it was from a brand that we knew. Anyway, it has been sat in our first aid box for several months, but very recently my partner had to test it out.
The description on the product says:
Soothing foam mousse formula
Relieves pain and cools the burn
Prevents the spread of heat in the skin
It is meant to work by keeping the skin below the body?s natural painrelief barrier without freezing.
We were directed by the instructions to shake the can well and then spray on burn at a distance of 10cm away from the burn and to get the foam roughly 0.5cm thick. It then said to repeat as necessary.
My partner sprayed it onto the burn as directed ...
Advantages: Quick and effective in dealing with migraine and tension headaches. Disadvantages: Make you incredibly drowsy. Codeine based medication so can become habit forming.
Once a month I find myself suffering from a rather nasty migraine headache. Sometimes I'm lucky, and it only lasts for 24 hours. Other times it can be an unwelcome invader of my head for up to 72 hours. I used to be able to keep the pain in abeyance with Migraleve Complete, but in the last six months or so, they haven't been as effective for me as they used to be. Maybe my body has become slightly immune to the benefits of this medication, but it just doesn't have the same effect on lessening my pain anymore.
I therefore popped into my local Lloyds pharmacy and had a word with the pharmacist about any alternative over the counter medications he could recommend. I actually asked him for the strongest over the counter migraine tablets that he could sell me. He came back with a navy blue box branded "Syndol". I must say that I had ...
