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That Jekka Gal

That Jekka Gal

That Jekka Gal

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…Talc. As in talcum powder?

Was once a time when a tin of Blue Stratos talc was the default Christmas gift for a distant relation to send your way at Yuletide.

There was certainly a surplus in our household when I was growing up which would normally last the rest of the year.

I seem to remember my father giving the inside of his undies a good dusting every morning in order to keep his goolies fresh throughout the day.

But you just don’t see it anymore.

Am I right in remembering that there was some link with cancer that put the kibosh on the use of talc?

Either way, I can’t imagine a daily application to a chap’s jolly bag doing anything other than giving your genitals the appearance of those of an octogenarian. I mean, wherever there was hair just turned white.
 
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Talc used to have traces of asbestos in it, something Johnson & Johnson denied for decades and covered up their own tests that showed it.

Hence there's a massive class action lawsuit in the US against every company that used it and I've just noticed adverts talking about a UK based one.

My friends wife just recently died due to mesothelioma and because she lived in the US in the 70's was able to be part of the US lawsuit and they got a 7 figure payout.
 
Talc is found next to asbestos and sometimes there might be traces of asbestos in talc. I think they are actually a different formation of the same thing.

It's unlikely to now though.

You can still find it on eBay :P
 
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Nasher said:
Talc is found next to asbestos and sometimes there might be traces of asbestos in talc. I think they are actually a different formation of the same thing.

It's unlikely to now though.

You can still find it on eBay :P
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That is my understanding of the problem with it.

Basically it looks and feels very much like one of the asbestos types, and was often found alongside asbestos so unless the people mining it were very on the ball and very careful you could get asbestos mixed in with the talc as like many minerals/rock layers a seam can vary suddenly or you can end up with them mixing unpredictably.


I'm guessing that some brands of talc may have been mined from seams that were higher risk or that the companies making it either fell out of fashion, when bust, or decided the cost of making talc to meet current testing levels was too high (I've noticed many of the brands that still sell it are emphasising it's pure, which would mean they're having to test, quite possibly very frequently in smaller unmixed batches).
 
We've got a bottle of baby talc in the bathroom, was a life saver in the middle of last summer when I had to go full plucked chicken before I had the snip :D
 
What about carbolic soap?

You can't get Dracula lollies either- but you can in Spain.

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It's not just the potential asbestos, there's a potential risk to females with a link to ovarian cancer.

I don't think Talc has disappeared at all, just used more cautiously.
 
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It's not just the potential asbestos, there's a potential risk to females with a link to ovarian cancer.

I don't think Talc has disappeared at all, just used more cautiously.
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Serious question, how do you use talc 'cautiously'?

Whenever I used it back in the day, no matter how carefully, I used to have to wait several minutes for it to settle before I could see the door handle again.

And no that's not a euphemism.
 
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