#wootopia

Why is GOOP and how can I stop them.

Today’s bullshit: ‘Malachite Detox  Tonic’

On the plus side...it’s meant for external use only. On the negative side: EVERYTHING ELSE

Like, if you feel better holding gemstones, or wearing them, or meditating on them, that’s cool, you do you.

But if you’re handling things that are potentially poisonous, for the love of Plaguemum be careful?

And that’s the issue. malachite is a copper carbonate. Copper is really good at killing bacteria. You might think ‘great, just what my skin needs’ but actually, no. No, it’s not what your skin needs. Your skin needs its natural layer of beneficial bacteria. Bacteria that probably won’t take amazingly well to being slathered in acidic copper solution that’s nicely bactericid. That sounds like a phenomenally bad idea to me.

And then of course there’s the bullshit science

‘malachite extract’ is not a thing that exist. It’s a stone. You’re not going to extract anything from it like you would from, say, rose petals.

No, what happens is that you take a chunk of malachite - again, copper CARBONATE - and you throw it into an acidic solution. What happens is that the stone will just slowly dissolve into the liquid because carbonates do that in acids. You’re not having ‘malachite extract’, you’re having ‘literally dissolved malachite in an acidic solution’. 

Then there’s of course my ongoing war against ‘Detoxifying’. That’s not a real thing you need. You can’t detoxify your pores because unless your pores are clogged...they literally already do that. Your pores transport stuff from your inside to your outside. That stuff can be sweat, fat or pheromones (or more broadly ‘things that smell’) and generally, if those pores aren’t clogged up they don’t need your help. Leave them be. Be gentle with your skin.

And don’t let people sell you shit like ‘malachite extract’ good lord