I get that it would never actually work like that, but every time I see it, I’m struck with the mental image of getting drunk off of estrogen.

  • TheGingerNut@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    alcohol is not what is known as an active ingredient at least in this case.

    Air is 78% nitrogen which does nothing for us
    It is 19% oxygen which we need BADLY
    but 100% oxygen is toxic to us, so we need to water it down with something, like nitrogen

    Your estrogen is diluted by the same logic. 750 micrograms ain’t much and if you tried to eyeball it in powder form you’d probably overdose by several orders of magnitude

  • Linda R@nord.pubEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    Estrogen gel is mostly alcohol. The alcohol-based gel helps you spread it evenly and then evaporates, leaving only a thin layer of e on the skin.

    If you were to administer the gel in a route where it cannot evaporate, it probably would get you tipsy.

    The alcohol isn’t ethanol, though, so it might also blind you, or whatever. But it would get you tipsy all the same!

  • trinket@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Do not drink. But, omg strawberrymilk liqueur smells like it and taste like one would think the gel should. Well that’s just my and some other transfems opinion, but yeah if you wanna try. Like even everyone else around seemed the hate it only us were really into it. Haven’t had it in a while.