Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for May 25, 2018

There is a poison ivy soap that kills the irritant and stops the spread. Healing is visible overnight.

Sometimes matter wins

People who say they don’t react to poison ivy have just never been in poison ivy..

A number of years back my father and i ran a mowing, brush clearing, and lot clean up business.

Pop took a job of clearing a quarter acre lot overgrown with Poison Oak.

We took all kinds of precautions.

Coveralls, gloves, face masks, duct tape closed every opening we could find.

We both ended up covered in rashes.

Afterwords we found out that when you cut a piece of Poison Oak, as part of its defense mechanism, the plant sprays a mist (only visible with close up slow motion video) of sap onto the air. Like a perfume atomizer.

Short of a Haz-Mat suit, nothing can keep that mist out. We were walking around in a toxic fog of our own making.

This is why I keep Fels-Naptha soap on hand.

Poison Ivy—the backyard fence curse. Wallace didn’t say nice things to it, apparently, like he did with the “Aww Shucks” flower earlier in the week.

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