Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaning Information and Facts
Immerse Yourself in Health with Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaning

Your skin is the largest organ in your body.  Most people recognize it as an organ of elimination because of perspiration but it is also an organ of assimilation.  It is estimated that we get thirty percent of our daily water and oxygen transdermally or through the skin.  One example of this assimilatory capacity of the dermis is evidenced by what happens when one bathes. A 200 pound man will take on four pounds of water during a twenty minute bath.   Also there are the precautions that are taken by actors and dancers that use body paint in plays and movies.  An actor or actress that uses body makeup must leave a large oval uncovered on their back or they will die of asphyxiation.
  As oxygen enthusiasts we are interested in oxygenating the body as well as detoxifying it by oxidizing impurities. We are interested in the uptake of oxygen and the medium by which it is delivered to the cells through the blood and interstitial fluid – good clean water. A good deal of this uptake of oxygen and water plus the elimination of toxins takes place though the pores.  There are approximately three million tiny holes in the skin that we call pores. By bathing in a dilute solution of hydrogen peroxide you can keep your skin clear for proper assimilation and elimination by oxidizing and emulsifying the substances that clog the pores and impede proper skin function.  There are two types of pores in the body. Ninety percent of them are sweat glands.  The other ten percent are sebaceous glands. Since they are the predominant glands beneath the pores we will discuss the sweat glands first.

  Sweat glands are found in almost every part of the skin, forming tiny coiled tubes embedded in the dermis or subcutaneous fat.  Toxins accumulate in adipose tissue or fat.  Ninety percent of your body fat is located just beneath your skin. The eccrine glands produce sweat which is a mixture of water and salts and are a significant factor in removing toxins from this fat through perspiration. The eccrine sweat gland is a long, coiled, hollow tube. There is a coiled part in the dermis where sweat is produced, and a long portion that acts as a duct to connect the gland to the opening or pore on the skins outer surface. Sweat plays an important part in regulating the temperature of the body by cooling it through evaporation of water from the skin as well as providing a useful natural method of removing waste products and toxins from the body. If the pores are clogged they cannot eliminate properly.  The tiny ducts of the eccrine glands pass through the dermis and epidermis and empty directly on to the skin. They are found everywhere on the skin except on the lips.
  The average person has 2.6 million sweat glands in their skin.   We are constantly sweating even though we may not notice it. Sweating is your body's primary way of getting rid of excess body heat that is produced by metabolism or working muscles. The amount of sweat produced depends upon your state of emotion and physical activity.   The maximum volume of sweat that a person who is not adapted to a hot climate can produce is about one liter per hour. If you move to a hot climate such as the American desert southwest or the tropics, your ability to produce sweat will increase to about two to three liters per hour within about six weeks. This appears to be the maximum amount that you can produce.  When sweat evaporates from the surface of your skin, it removes excess heat and cools you but often leaves the toxins carried to the surface behind to occlude the opening of the pore.

  Ten percent of your pores are hair follicles that are pores with sebaceous glands at the base and a hair growing up through the skin.  Approximately three hundred thousand small sebaceous glands lie just under the skin surface. These glands make the oil or sebum that keeps the skin supple and smooth. Sebum is a waxy, oily substance that keeps the skin moist and supple.  When it mixes with sweat it gives the skin a moist shiny patina that keeps the skin waterproof.  Hair follicles allow the sebum to come up to the surface of the skin along the shaft of the hair.  Sebum collects under pores that are clogged. You can see this as small spots called pimples or papules. As a rule, the more sebum you produce, the greasier your skin feels.   Body odor is produced by micro-organisms or germs that grow in particularly moist areas of the skin, such as the armpit. They produce body odor by digesting sebum and can only work efficiently if water is present.
  As a result of aging and accumulated sun damage, sebaceous follicles often become clogged with sebum, multiple vellus hairs and dead cells. These follicular retention products can distend the pores, causing the skin to take on a rough texture with large, accentuated pores. As soil and makeup become embedded in the pores, bad bacteria may invade the area and pus can form. Deep cysts form when the swelling from blocked pores known as comedones or pimples become infected with bacteria, usually Propioni bacterium acnes commonly called  P. acnes or acne. Sometimes, the follicles can become so distended that they eventually rupture, spewing their contents including bacteria, sebum and dead skin cells into the surrounding skin.  This acne process mainly occurs during puberty and through adolescence when hormones cause the sebaceous glands to increase in size, however, it can occur in adults. The medical term for it is acne vulgaris. The whole process causes different types of sores and blemishes, depending on the stage of the cycle.  Blocked sebum is an ideal medium for  P.acnes to live in and multiply. Acne also occurs with prolonged use of cosmetics, due to blockage of sebaceous gland ducts or pores.  Small numbers of P. acnes normally live on the skin, and do no harm. However, if large numbers develop in the blocked sebum, the immune system may react and cause inflammation.
  A certain level of oil production is necessary to support the colonization of the pore by beneficial bacteria, called C. acnes.  The oil or sebum provides nutrients for the bacteria. As these bacteria populate the pore they produce free fatty acids and glycerol. The free fatty acids can irritate the pore lining if not regularly cleansed. There are other components of sebum such as wax esters which are irritating to the pore also and lead to the impaction of the pores. When this happens the epithelium that lines these pores produce cells at a rapid rate and the cells stick together, almost like a cancer.  For these reasons it is critically important to keep the pores clear to allow for an open pore that secretes sebum easily. The bacteria in the skin maintain the "acid mantle" of skin. The pH of the skin is 5.2. This pH barrier protects the skin from other bacteria such as streptococci and staphylococci. In healthy skin they cannot enter into the bacterial flora of the pore.

Oxygen enthusiasts have long been knowledgeable about the benefits of bathing in a dilute solution of hydrogen peroxide. Peroxide provides an all natural scrubbing agent to kill invading bacteria and dissolve the amalgam of detritus that clogs the pores.  It also provides valuable oxygen that is readily absorbed by the skin.  Since this is typically done in a bathtub or hot tub where the water is at or near body temperature, the pores are relaxed and dilated to their maximum state of openness thereby facilitating the elimination of toxins and the uptake of oxygen. Store bought peroxide will work in a pinch but contain chemical preservatives and heavy metal stabilizers and are not as prone to release their life giving oxygen as the Food Grade. Food Grade hydrogen peroxide releases the oxygen singlets more readily when it comes in contact with the acid mantle of the skin. Typically, a person will put eight to twelve ounces of 8% Food Grade in a warm tub or one quart per week to maintain a hot tub.  The temperature should be between 96 and100 degrees to get maximum pore dilation.  The result is a relaxing soak where the heart, which is the largest muscle in the body, is treated to a gentle rate elevation by readily available oxygen that it shares with the muscles and organs.  This surplus oxygen is liberally distributed because your body is at rest and the oxygen demand condition that normally accompanies elevated heart rate from activity does not exist.  When one emerges from an oxygen bath the skin should be a rosy pink.  The feeling of well being is incomparable.  Try elevating your oxygen level by letting your skin breathe.
Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaning
Vital O and Hydrogen Peroxide
Note: 
We are not big advocates of the oral consumption of Hydrogen Peroxide.   Vital O is more pleasant and more effective.  One teaspoon of 8% Food Grade in one quart or liter of water is equivalent to 40 drops of 35%.  This is the standard for people who choose to put it in drinking water.
Hydrogen Peroxide Uses
LITTLE KNOWN USES OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
  Although hydrogen peroxide is commonly use in pharmaceutical preparations, mouthwashes, dentifrices and as a topical disinfectant, there are many other uses that are less commonly known.  Many of the following uses are listed in the Merck Index.  In addition, it is:
1. Rocket Propulsion.  It was used in World War II by the Germans in their V-2 rockets and in their first jet airplanes.  the Germans were the leading producers of hydrogen peroxide during World War II. 
2. Used in submarines as an emergency source of oxygen.
3. Used as a dough conditioner, a maturing and bleaching agent in food.
4. Used in the plastic industry.
5. Used as a catalyst in epoxy techniques.
6. Used in white discharge printing on indigo dyed wool.
7. Used as a bleaching agent for feathers, hair, silk, straw, ivory, flour, bone and gelatin.
8. Used to restore old paintings.
9. Used as an oxidizer in manufacturing dyes.
10. Used to disinfect water.
11. Used to disinfect hides.
12. Used to artificially age wines and liquors.
13. Used to refine oils and fats.
14. Used in dying furs.
15. Used in the photography industry.
16. Used in the plating industry and to clean metal surfaces and for gilding and silvering.
17. A special hydrogen peroxide is manufactured for the semi-conductor industry.  it is used in their clean room.  (A clean room is up to 100 times cleaner than any operating room in a hospital.)  The transistors and chips are cleaned in hydrogen peroxide just prior to assembly.  Dust of any kind would cause noise and create problems.
18. It is used in the manufacture of adhesives.
19. It is used in the refining of gold.
20. It is used in the bleaching of paper products and diapers.  One of the advantages over chlorine is that it leaves no dioxin residue and is environmentally safe.
21. It is used in the aseptic packaging industry.
22. It is being used in experimental jet helicopters, in racing cars and in rocket powered roller skates.  Many state automobile records are held by those vehicles powered with hydrogen peroxide.  Rocket powered roller skates can travel up to 150 miles per hour.
23. Hydrogen peroxide has also been used to clean air conditioning coils.
24. The small pieces of chicken that are sold in fast food restaurants are all white meats.  They do not discard the dark meat.  It is whitened by using hydrogen peroxide.
If hydrogen peroxide were to be taken off the market, it would severely cripple a major part of our industry. 
GRADES OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

3% Hydrogen Peroxide (Drug/Grocery Store Variety)
Made from 50% Super D Peroxide, Diluted.  contains stabilizers - phenol, acetanilide, acetanilid, sodium stanate, tetrasodium phosphate among them.

6% Hydrogen Peroxide (Used by Beauticians for Coloring Hair)
Comes in strengths labelled 10, 20,40 volume.  Must have activator added to be used as a bleach.  Stabilizers used unknown at this point.

8% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide
Used in the Health industry and in Homes for purging, disinfecting and sanitizing. The highest concentration legal to ship without having to list as a hazardous material.  Concentration found to have the best shelf life of the food grades
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30% Re-Agent Hydrogen Peroxide
Used in medical research.  Also contains stabilizers.

30-32% Electronic Grade Hydrogen Peroxide
Used for washing transistors and integrated chip parts before assembly.  Stabilizers unknown at this point.

35% Technical grade Hydrogen Peroxide
Contains a small amount of phosphorus to neutralize any chlorine in the water it is combined with.

*35% Food Grade Hydrogen peroxide(Also 50% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide)
Used in food products like cheese, eggs, whey products.  Also used to spray inside of foil containers for food storage - known as the asceptic packaging system.

90% Hydrogen Peroxide
Used by military as a source of Oxygen at Cape Canaveral.  Used as a propulsion source in rocket fuel.

99.6% Hydrogen Peroxide
This was first made in 1954 as an experiment to see how pure hydrogen peroxide could be.

IN THE HOME USE FOR HYDROGEN PEROXIDE:
 
CLEANSING FOR VEGETABLES AND SALAD GREENS
  Add ¼ cup 3% H2O2 to a sink full or cold water.  Wash vegetables thoroughly, rinse and drain.  Use immediately or pat dry and store.  If time is a problem, spray with straight 3% H2O2, rinse with cold water and drain.

WASHING and LAUNDRY

Add 8 ounces of 3% to your wash in place of bleaches with fumes.

SPROUTING SEEDS

  Add 1 ounce 3% H2O2 to 1 pint of water and soak the seeds overnight.  Add the same amount of H2O2 each time you rinse the seeds.  Some people have reported 3/4" sprouts in 24 hours. To make 3% H2O2 solution using 35% H2O2:  mix 1 ounce of 35% H2O2 into 11 ounces distilled water.  Makes 3/4
pint of 3% H2O2 solution.

People have reported using HYDROGEN PEROXIDE on their house plants and in their gardens.  I have observed two test plots in Minnesota where tomato vines sprayed with a HYDROGEN PEROXIDE solution were larger than normal and reached a length of 10'.  They were green and healthy with no blight.
  One reader reported that if you mix 8 oz. of sugar into 1 gallon of water and then add 4 oz. of 3% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE and spray a number of times during the growing season that this repels insects.  This person also observed that by using this mixture on carrots, they were very sweet.  (The amount was later changed to 8 oz. of blackstrap molasses or white sugar and 8 oz. of 3% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE per gallon of water).
 
There are several farmers experimenting with injecting food grade HYDROGEN PEROXIDE into their water systems.  The dilution they are using is 4 oz. of 35% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE to 1,000 gallons of water.  The HYDROGEN PEROXIDE is metered in at the well head only when the well runs.  Early reports are satisfactory.  (The injection amount was later revised to 8 oz. per 1,000 gallons or 30-40 ppm). 

The information of using HYDROGEN PEROXIDE to disinfect is not new.  It is mentioned in Henley’s Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes, 1907; and The Merck Index, Ninth Edition.
NEW USES FOR HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
To remove hog odors from your hands and body after pumping hog building pits:  After your shower or bath spray or rub your entire body with 3% hydrogen peroxide and wash your hands in 3% hydrogen peroxide.  Rub the peroxide in good for several seconds.  After washing with soap and water the smell will be gone. 
THE BEST WAY TO TREAT MINOR CUTS
Hydrogen peroxide is the best over-the-counter antiseptic for scratches, minor cuts and scrapes, says an expert.  Diluted iodine is second best and rubbing alcohol third, according to Dr. Kim Eoff, an assistant Dean at the University of Tennessee’s College of Pharmacy.  Mercurochrome and Methiolate are potentially toxic if they are used over a long period of time, and boric acid is “virtually useless” as an antiseptic, Dr. Eoff concluded.
MOUTH WASH
Colgate-Hoyt Laboratories in Norwood, MA markets “Peroxyl,” a brand of 1.5% hydrogen peroxide mouth wash.  An advisory review panel for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has concluded that 1.5 to 3% hydrogen peroxide is safe and effective for topical use as a mouth rinse, serving to flush out mouth debris by its foaming action.
NOTE:  Hydrogen Peroxide is ALWAYS used in a diluted solution.
HELPFUL HINTS USING H2O2
1. Brush your teeth using a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide on your toothbrush.  Many people have said this keeps their teeth white, removes plaque from their teeth, and that their dentists have remarked about the healthy appearance of their gums.
2. Spray your entire body with 3% hydrogen peroxide after your bath.  Be careful around the eyes and hair.
3. For detoxification of the body, put 12 ozs. of 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide in your bath water and soak in it for ½ hour.  Because hydrogen peroxide is so soluble, oxygen is absorbed by your body tissues. 
4. Soak your feet in 3% hydrogen peroxide to help check Athlete’s Foot.
HOUSEPLANTS
Perk up houseplants with H2O2.  Just pour a .5% solution into the plants soil.  One of our fellow users of H2O2 used it on a dying corn plant and on a non-flowering geranium.  Fantastic results.  The common  drug store variety H2O2 was used.  For maintenance of plants, use 1 tsp 3% H2O2 to 1 quart water.  To get .5% solution, take 1 part 3% solution H2O2 and 5 parts distilled water.  (We now say 1 to 3 ounces of 3% hydrogen peroxide per quart of water can be used).
The Hydrogen Peroxide Program FAQ’s
What is the hydrogen peroxide program?
It is taking of hydrogen peroxide orally, by intravenous infusion, absorption through the skin or any means of taking hydrogen peroxide naturally into the body. There is a schedule set up for the oral consumption of a very dilute solution of hydrogen peroxide that many people are using. It is found later in this report. Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide is administered via an IV drip in a very dilute solution and administered by a doctor. A physician referral can be obtained by checking the reference section of this scrapbook.
How much of a maintenance should I be taking? After going through the purging schedule, this will vary with each individual. It is an amount you feel is a comfortable tolerance. Some take a few drops a day of food grade hydrogen peroxide, others take 40 drops a day. The taking of hydrogen peroxide is always a decision that is a personal free choice.
Is the drinking of hydrogen peroxide just another fad? The answer is, no. According to research material that has been revealed within the past few years, hydrogen peroxide was being ingested and injected over 100 years ago. According to this material, which bears the stamp from the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, Feb. 1902 & 1903, the ingestion and injection of hydrogen peroxide was taking place and was being reported in the leading journals of the day, including the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Is the oral ingestion of hydrogen peroxide approved? It is not officially approved, according to the FDA. In essence hydrogen peroxide is water and oxygen. When we need governmental permission to ingest these, it’s time to throw in the towel. One could spend many years and many millions of dollars seeking approval for something that is not patentable, since it was already in use 100 years ago. By rights, it should have been "grandfathered in" June 30th, 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act was signed into law. Then anything that was used prior to that date, such as radiation, was "grandfathered in."
The information on this site is not meant to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any disease and is only provided for informational purposes. If you believe you have a serious ailment or disease please consult with a licensed medical practitioner.
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