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Cheapest White Powder?


JohnGalt

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Hi,

In Thailand we have special way to celebrate the Thai new year. People walk in the street shooting everybody with their water gun and putting white powder in the face of other.

I was wondering what is the cheapest white powder that could be put on the face/eyes of people without hurting them?

 

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Cocaine Kaolinite - white mineral that makes up big percentage of most clays and you often have almost pure kaolinite clays. When dry it's easy to get it into powder form and has no adverse health effects that I've heard of. And it's free too if you manage to find a proper sediment :)

 

EDIT: Ouch. Apparently people also eat kaolinite, never heard of that before but here's the quote:

 

 

GeophagyKaolin is eaten for health or to suppress hunger,[9] a practice known as geophagy. Consumption is greater among women, especially during pregnancy.[51] This practice has also been observed within a small population of African-American women in the Southern United States, especially Georgia.[52][53] There, the kaolin is called white dirt, chalk or white clay.[

 

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What's wrong with flour?

 

Flour costs money and kaolinite can be dug for free on a river bank :)

 

The essential problem is that lungs are not built to deal with much solid dust, so any powder being thrown round is potentially harmful.

 

Yeah, silicosis would be a problem if you do it too often, but once a year shouldn't be too bad.

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Flour costs money and kaolinite can be dug for free on a river bank :)

 

 

Yeah, silicosis would be a problem if you do it too often, but once a year shouldn't be too bad.

Well, that's true iff th local river banks have kaolin in them.

And it won't be silicosis unless you start throwing silica about.

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