Pharmaceutics...

was fun today :)

We made something called 'simple ointment' which is a base ointment that we can then use to put in medicated stuff... and becomes a useful ointment. Then with the simple ointment we did stuff...

So after making the simple ointment, the first part was to mix it with a liquid. There was this red solution that we had to mix in and I'm surprised how such an oily thing can take up liquid! The ointment/creamy thing turned a pretty pink colour. :) (on the other hand, the white soft paraffin we used just didn't take up any liquid like we expected... lousy time wasting experiment. have you tried playing with the oil that comes out when you roast lamb? w.s. paraffin is like that. try mixing any water in with it... if you manage to get water in the middle of it, then squish it- water comes squirting out! :p)

Then we made zinc oxide and sulphur cream. Using the simple ointment as a base, we mixed in zinc oxide and sulphur powders...
playing with cream is FUN. but wow... it's amazing how much energy it consumes to try to crunch up little powder lumps and making sure the mixture is smooth...
but it was fun. :) (and the best part- this whole thing isn't graded! so no pressure, no stress. just... interesting, you learn something, and its fun)

So when i was finished, i arranged all my equipment, and products to look pretty all prepared for a sneak photo taking session in the lab... when i remembered I FORGOT MY PHONE. (yea... if someone about 10 years ago read this they'll be like.. wth... you don't need a PHONE to take pictures...) but yes.. i forgot my phone. and therefore i couldn't take pictures of my stuff. :'(

Oh well. Maybe next year. Or even next semester! do we get to do this next semester...?