Originally Posted by
azjoe
Glad you're feeling a little better today! :D
Nope, no cooking :rolleyes:. It's been sitting on a counter in the bathroom... no sun, just indirect light from a window. It probably has not exceeded a temp of 85F since it arrived. Who knows what happened in the USPS, but this is Arizona where the afternoon temp (in the shade) has ranged between 108 and 115 for the past month, so I'd guess it likely experienced as high as 140F sitting in a truck somewhere. (My mail gets delivered between 2 and 4pm... the mailman parks his truck a couple streets away and then rides a bicycle from house to house delivering the mail, returning to the truck as needed. So the truck sits in the hot sun for a couple hours before he moves on to the next neighborhood.)
It definitely was milky white when it arrived, although not as bright a white as the sample from the earlier round. I checked it again last night... it had been sitting for two days and had a couple very thin layers of colorful stuff on the bottom and top, the liquid in the middle was kinda a dull yellowish gray color. When I shook it vigorously it turned dirty dishwater white until the bubbles disappeared and then just settled down to a dull yellow dirty dishwater color.
Colleen, if you think heat is the culprit, maybe you could put a small sample of yours in a bottle and drop the bottle in a pan of 140F water and just let it sit in there until it's down to room temp... and then see what happens over the next week.
Regarding menthol... I gotta tell you I didn't detect the 'cooling' effect typical of menthol in either sample. So my dumb question of the day is does menthol have some other properties that are beneficial... like astringent, or something?
