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Old 2017-01-30, 9:54am
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I have been putting epsom salts into the warm bucket of water I clean my beads in as a a help for my sore thumb joints, has any one else tried this a s a help for those sore joints?

Supposedly your skin is able to absorb some of those trace minerals.
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Old 2017-01-30, 3:22pm
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Are your sore joints feeling better? I just bought 3 bags of epsom salt and didn't know why. I'll try it next batch of beads.
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Old 2017-01-30, 9:17pm
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Huh. I use epsom salts for sore muscles and just never thought to put it into the bead cleaning water.
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Old 2017-01-31, 7:10am
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well, joints do feel better, don't know if the epsom salts are responsible but I'm going to keep using them because...why not?
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Old 2017-02-02, 8:35am
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Just don't rust out your metal bead cleaning tools.
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Old 2017-02-02, 12:53pm
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Mandy, I used to worry about this until I used some petroleum jelly to gently lubricate my chuck and the shafts of cleaning bits. Even if the water splashes up that far, no worries. (I know this because I rusted out the first chuck on my Dremel)
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