Amandha: We have research that shows there are no negative side effects whatsoever. In fact, the only issues that have been seen are with higher doses, with some gastrointestinal upset or some skin reactivity because, as you know, DMSO is transdermal.
Amandha: Depending on how you apply it to the skin or what you’re mixing it with, you can have varying results because it is opening the tissue in multiple ways, as I’ve discussed in my book, Healing with DMSO. It will then allow other substances of low molecular weight into the skin with it.
Amandha: For example, you could get a swelling of the tissue if you use quite a high dose of DMSO and then you submerge in water because DMSO loves water. Water is attracted to it. In fact, the relationship between water and DMSO is very important because that’s how it propels through the system.
Amandha: When you have a lot of DMSO on your hands, for example, and you wash your hands or take a bath right afterward, you could get sort of waterlogged, wrinkly skin because it’s absorbing a lot of extra water into that tissue. It’s a temporary response. It has no permanent damage.
Amandha: Those are your biggest sorts of risks when using it, other than, of course, blending it with unwanted things like metals and so forth. You don’t want to mix DMSO with toxins and then put it on your skin, but to me that’s kind of a no-brainer.
