DMSO Gel Jar 4 Ounce Package - Part #: 09004/903A

While most would seek out DMSO for very painful muscles, rheumatoid arthritis, and other issues (okay, horses...yeah...that's what it was made for...horses with muscle pain but it's typically used on humans so you can substitute "I" in this review with "my horse" if you like.

The side-effect always encountered with DMSO is that, because it penetrates the skin, you wind up tasting it's odd oniony garlic odor in your mouth. And smelling it. In fact, when DMSO was being tested to treat pain, they had extreme difficulty doing a double-blind study because it was obvious who used the placebo and who got the real stuff...by their breath. So they knew if they had the placebo very quickly. As everyone who uses it gets a whiff. However, for someone in pain, they don't much care about garlic.

While this has the odd odor, it appears to be more scented than the natural DMSO that carries the odor through your body. It never penetrated. It never wound up in my breath. Smelly stuff sitting on my skin doesn't do much for me other than make me stink.

Now you may feel I've been had in quality (there is, afterall, lots of fake DMSO out there) but that goes without question once you get the DMSO. It says it's pure 99.85% gel. Notice that wording. Yes the GEL is 99.85%. The DMSO is not.

Guess what it says on the label "Sold for use as a mild solvent only"

Note: the packaging label on the picture they posted is not the jar you will get. I will post a picture of the actual jar they ship which calls it a mild solvent and says gel 90% and upload it to the picture page.

Yep! You are buying GEL. DMSO is no mild solvent. it appears as though they took some 99.85% DMSO and combined it with 90% gel by the label....creating a very mild solvent of 10% DMSO.

I'd doubt this except for the fact that it didn't work and never penetrated the skin, much like those in the double blind study on the placebo.

DMSO actually cures my poison ivy which is why I have it...I have a wildlife habitat and if there is poison ivy out there I find it when I'm working to help the animals. This did nothing.

Watch out for clever wording. Here you are buying gel. For too much money for just inactive filler material.

Better to find 99% DMSO rather than 99.85% DMSO dissolved in 90% of the container being gel in order to create a "mild solvent" as the label tells you once you read it.

Note: The picture the seller shows on this page is not the DMSO they will ship you. I will take an actual photo and upload it today of the one saying it's just a mild solvent and 90% gel. This is a completely different item than they shipped to me.

This product arrived very quickly and it did what it was suppose to do. My mother tried it for about a week and had an allergic reaction. Just be aware that it might when you try it.

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