/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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3: Poultices for effect AND utility

Witch Hazel is an amazing substance: Its an astringent, an anticeptic, fights acne, and leaves skin feeling tingly. Its also cheap as hell and readily available. Why am I mentioning it when we're only playing at medicine? Well, because of that tingly astringent feeling, along with its one downside: It has a VERY strong herbal odor. It dissapates in minutes, but while this makes it less popular for daily use, it really drives home the feeling of an herbal poultice.

A little bottle of witch hazel, with some dabbed on a your linen bandage will have the same feeling as vick's vapor rub or seabreeze astringent on skin, and smell like something an herbalist will use.