[NAFEX] Antitranspirants

Ginda Fisher list at ginda.us
Sat Jun 16 07:22:47 EDT 2007


On Jun 16, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Stephen Sadler wrote:

> No Wilt contains two "natural polymers". . . .
> I'm not super convinced that it does any good.  It tries to stop  
> plants from
> exhaling, and losing water.  If you stopped a person from exhaling  
> in order
> to slow or prevent dehydration, it would have that effect, but  
> would also
> have other undesirable effects.  If it worked well enough to really  
> stop
> moisture loss, it would interfere with the plant's natural  
> processes and it
> would die.  The reason it doesn't kill plants would be that it  
> doesn't work
> all that well.
. . .

Judging from your analogy, it seems to me it might work, even in a  
drought.  I often wear a surgical mask when I'm on a long airplane  
flight.  I don't do it for the germs, I do it because the mask is an  
excellent "antitranspirant".  As I exhale, a lot of moisture I  
breathe out is trapped in the mask, and when I breathe in, the fresh  
air picks up that moisture.  Since I started wearing a mask I stopped  
having to drink lots of water on airplanes, I stopped getting sore  
throats, and I get much less "jet lag".  It turns out that the  
symptoms I thought were jet lag were largely dehydration.

If a face mask can trap water without interfering with breathing (at  
least, not enough to matter) it seems plausible that a waxy leaf  
coating could do so, too.

Ginda



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