Originally Posted by
Rowan
Why change what you do normally at home?
Have you had a look to see what the chemicals are used to make Dr Bronners, and compared them to what you use in ordinary soaps or washing detergents? And have you researched to see if Dr Bronners changed its formula about the time you started to develop saddle sores?
And what sort of saddles sores are they -- the deep-seated lump, the hair follicle irritation or the skin rash type?
As to why I would use something different on the road than at home, it wasn't really a conscious choice. I generally just grab some form of liquid soap, put it into a small container and use it. I'm not sure if I had ever used DB peppermint before this whole series of events, but it became a default soap around the house for things like pot scrubbing and such a few years back. It is now being replaced with BioKleen, which does not appear to cause me any woe.
The sores were not the deep, apoxic-induced deep-tissue sort. They were the infected, inflamed skin lesion kind. You haven't lived until you've ridden a few hundred miles with bloody, oozing saddle sores and a leather chamois.
