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Menopause Discussion => Alternative Therapies => Topic started by: CLKD on April 09, 2021, 04:04:29 PM

Title: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 09, 2021, 04:04:29 PM
Does anyone here know much about bamboo when used as a product?
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 09, 2021, 04:13:38 PM
What would you be using it for exactly?
Have you put it in the search box to see if anything comes up  ;)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: sheila99 on April 09, 2021, 05:08:28 PM
Are you after a pair of those underpants?? Very fetching  ;)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Taz2 on April 09, 2021, 05:10:56 PM
I've got bamboo socks. Well that's what it said on the packet!

Taz x
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 09, 2021, 05:22:58 PM
A product advertised on TV this week: menobrain can't remember which 1  ::) : states that it includes bamboo oil.  Well bamboo is a grass.  Pandas love it  ;D.  It grows in many different regions and in many different types.  It has a pith through it which disappears once the grass dies.  Hence why it is used for 'bug hotels' as well as cut for bean poles etc..

I do worry that 'bamboo oil' might tempt people to buy a product which doesn't have in it what it claims  :-\.  DH looked and it's supposedly 'silica' but grass isn't silica.

As for bamboo pants ........  :o
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Joaniepat on April 09, 2021, 05:23:30 PM
My loo paper is made out of bamboo...
JP x
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 09, 2021, 05:25:52 PM
Is't it a little ruff .........  ;D and are we denyng pandas their daily intake  :-\
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Joaniepat on April 09, 2021, 05:29:41 PM
No, much less ruff than the ordinary kind. I didn't think pandas needed loo paper  ???
JP x
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 09, 2021, 05:32:25 PM
 ;D.  I haven't talked to many pandas recently ......... like koalas, I couldn't exist simply on grass ........ i.e. bamboo or ecuplypts  ::). [reminds me of Izal]
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 10, 2021, 12:11:46 PM
 ??? ??? so what was your question again CKD? :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 10, 2021, 01:36:53 PM
Does anyone know about bamboo - constitution, uses; whether those uses are genuine or taking advantage of people wanting something different ....... when I see the advert I'll let you know.  DH and I looked at each other and went 'whhhhattt'  ::)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Taz2 on April 10, 2021, 02:17:39 PM
There is lots online about this CLKD. Give it a Google. I can't post a link as there is usually a shop facility included. Far too much to put on here but it is being used to try to cut the amount of plastic in the environment. I've got bamboo drinking straws and socks  ;D

Taz x  :)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 10, 2021, 03:13:49 PM
Tnx. 
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 10, 2021, 03:15:55 PM
Does anyone know about bamboo - constitution, uses; whether those uses are genuine or taking advantage of people wanting something different ....... when I see the advert I'll let you know.  DH and I looked at each other and went 'whhhhattt'  ::)

So is it something you are looking at to use as an alternative for your menopausal symptoms? I'm only asking as you've posted it in the Alternatives Section of the forum  :)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 10, 2021, 03:25:20 PM
It's supposedly of health benefit.  Can't remember the advert exactly - that will come when I've seen it again.

We looked up bamboo 'oil' but can't find out how to make oil from bamboo which is a grass  :-\.  I wonder if the public are being 'conned' by thinking that bamboo is the 'go to' product for health.

I have sent a query to a UK grower of Bamboo ......... it worries me that many health products are stocked by well known chemists without them doing any actual research!
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 10, 2021, 03:30:55 PM
It's supposedly of health benefit.  Can't remember the advert exactly - that will come when I've seen it again.

Can you remember if it was menopause health related?  :)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 10, 2021, 03:31:50 PM
Not menopause related .........  :D. I don't think  ::)
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 10, 2021, 03:35:04 PM
Might be better to ask Emma to move it to the This & That part of the board - might get more responses there.  :-\
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 10, 2021, 03:36:55 PM
Why?  It's an alternative health product.  Not main stream.
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 10, 2021, 03:42:21 PM
okey dokey.. just thought you're questions were more about the advertising of it & how it could be misleading, & also about weather it is a silica or a grass - my mistake.
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Sparrow on April 10, 2021, 04:00:07 PM
okey dokey.. just thought you're questions were more about the advertising of it & how it could be misleading, & also about weather it is a silica or a grass - my mistake.

I buy from Seasalt and a lot of their clothes include bamboo. 

It's an environmentally friendly product, with all sorts of uses, but have not heard of it as a health product.
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Sparrow on April 10, 2021, 04:06:10 PM

Good link for bamboo uses.

Good old Google.  ;D



https://www.econation.co.nz/bamboo/
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cassie on April 10, 2021, 04:52:34 PM
Heard of olive oil benefits, but bamboo...thats a new one...going to google
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Taz2 on April 10, 2021, 05:03:03 PM
Maybe it was related to the wicking nightwear they produce from bamboo?

Taz x
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: Cazikins on April 10, 2021, 07:14:19 PM
CLKD - I've found this quite by random:
"Bloomers
Made from soft bamboo fibre, our bold and beautiful Bloomers brighten up any dreary period days. These reusable sanitary pads are perfect for those who prefer natural fabrics next to their skin, and the leak-free binding keeps wetness strictly inside the pad."
https://www.bloomandnora.com/collections/bloomers?

https://www.bloomandnora.com/collections/bloomers?fbclid=IwAR2Pk0BNH08zm4_k1LIsoDnwlWRNTBzasAdE17-8LNQGbFVTTNwDYYrDL3k
Title: Re: Bamboo advice
Post by: CLKD on April 10, 2021, 07:40:10 PM
Nope.   :thankyou: