Double, double, toil and trouble..

[Jessie]

My husband has been trying to buy Chhinkni powder for a while now (I know, he's a sweetie! ). However, as many of you have likely discovered, it's out of stock on every site he's found.

So: to the laboratory. He would like to know if

1. anyone could list off the ingredients on a Chhinkni powder container, and

2. anyone has tried making their own powder before

Thanks in advance for your help- we will report back with results (and perhaps some .WAVs?)

Cheers!

[bloom]

The ingredients are eucalyptus oil, menthol, camphor dust, powdered cardamom, and sandalwood sawdust. I strongly suspect that the bulk of it is made up of sawdust, because it isn't really "wet" enough to contain a huge amount of the oils involved. I haven't tried making my own, but I would start with a larger quantity of the sawdust and add the others in very, very tiny quantities at first, then work up if they're not having the desired effect. Much less potentially irritating to the sinus passages than doing it the other way around.

I still think it's funny that it's mainly sawdust... Like, This Just In: Sawdust makes people sneeze, more at eleven.

[Anonymouse]

The ingredients are eucalyptus oil, menthol, camphor dust, powdered cardamom, and sandalwood sawdust. I strongly suspect that the bulk of it is made up of sawdust, because it isn't really "wet" enough to contain a huge amount of the oils involved. I haven't tried making my own, but I would start with a larger quantity of the sawdust and add the others in very, very tiny quantities at first, then work up if they're not having the desired effect. Much less potentially irritating to the sinus passages than doing it the other way around.

I still think it's funny that it's mainly sawdust... Like, This Just In: Sawdust makes people sneeze, more at eleven.

Oh shit, it's really mostly sawdust? Is that healthy to be snorting?

[bloom]

I think it's okay, because it's a very tiny amount, and you don't actually aspirate it into your lungs or anything - you just end up sneezing it out, or your nose runs enough to flush it out and necessitate you blowing your nose. None of it actually stays in your body unless you accidentally snort it into your lungs or something.

Plus, honestly, snuff is tobacco and people've sniffed that for hundreds of years - I doubt sawdust is more harmful than that (and weirdly, there don't seem to be very many health risks associated with using snuff like there are with smoking or chewing tobacco).

[SteFinch81]

This is funny! I have only ever ordered it from one website. I went online a few days ago to reorder & they were out ... I didn't realize the stuff was no where to be found.

[TheBowler]

I've never actually tried to order this stuff, but I've been really wanting to get this, or something like this. Maybe one day...

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I wouldn't particularly recommend making your own, only because it seems like it would be really hard to get all the proportions right? But i mean good luck tho. If you do manage to make it you have GOT to tell us, that would be wicked cool.

Plus, honestly, snuff is tobacco and people've sniffed that for hundreds of years - I doubt sawdust is more harmful than that (and weirdly, there don't seem to be very many health risks associated with using snuff like there are with smoking or chewing tobacco).

also, i'm not sure if this is true or not bc i didn't source check and i am toooooo tired to rn it's like 3:30 why am i awake lol, but my Hs history teacher (who knew next to everything knowable) told us during class that when snuff used to be extremely popular, it would actually weaken the structural integrity of the face to the point where someone could literally punch your face in if you snorted it often enough. So, if nothing else that's a fun urban legend. Idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There might be some merit to it, drugs'll heck ya up.

[buffysummers]

also, i'm not sure if this is true or not bc i didn't source check and i am toooooo tired to rn it's like 3:30 why am i awake lol, but my Hs history teacher (who knew next to everything knowable) told us during class that when snuff used to be extremely popular, it would actually weaken the structural integrity of the face to the point where someone could literally punch your face in if you snorted it often enough. So, if nothing else that's a fun urban legend. Idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There might be some merit to it, drugs'll heck ya up.

Same thing can happen with too much cocaine so it might be more than an urban legend. .

I was interested in chhinkni before but idk if I wanna put sawdust up my nose!

[Jessie]

Thanks everyone!

The ingredients are eucalyptus oil, menthol, camphor dust, powdered cardamom, and sandalwood sawdust.

There's our shopping list. We had also found arrowroot as a powder possibility in our research, as a substitute for sandalwood. Probably just going to stick with the sandalwood, though.

I wouldn't particularly recommend making your own, only because it seems like it would be really hard to get all the proportions right? But i mean good luck tho. If you do manage to make it you have GOT to tell us, that would be wicked cool.

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I'll let you know if it works!