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Re:Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily... by beeflet on Thursday September 05, 2024 @11:52PM (#41462732)
What kind of application are you suggesting with DMSO?

t. chem student

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Re:Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily... by kragen on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:41AM (#41463498)
probably mixing dmso with tartrazine and rubbing it on thin skin. dmso is commonly used as an excipient to promote dermal penetration (of the stratum corneum) by drugs in topical preparations

see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460663/

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