Welcome Kkina

Thank you!

my friend did it and she has like 7 burns on her arm now. she got me into doing it and it doesn't hurt. if you like pain then try it. its fun!

it disturbes me that some people like pain.... >_>

Kind of off topic, but kind of related- Isn't it true that if you put Big Red gum wrappers on your skin it starts to burn? Some of my friends did it, and they said it hurt a bit.

LOL this thread is turning into "Self Harmers Anonymous" ffs

And I just wanted a cold beer.

I THINK THAT IT'S A MYTH AND IT DOSE NOT HURT BECAUSE ONE TIME I TRY IT AND IT DID NOT HURT IT JUST GOT STUCK TO MY FINGER AND PEOPLE SAY THAT DRY ICE HURT'S WELL IT'S A LIE I PICKED UP DRY ICE BEFORE AND IT DOSE NOT HURT OR BURN IT JUST GET'S STUCK AND IF YOU JUST HOLD IT FOR A WHILE IT IT GET;S STUCK ON TO YOU.
TRY DRY ICE AND SHAMPOO AND WATER AND REGALER ICE AND AND SHAMPOO AND 2 CONTAINER TO PUT IT IN AND PUT BOTH ON A HOT PLATE AND AND THE ONE WITH DRY ICE WILL START 2 BUBBLE? FIND OUT..............

No sh** !

as far as the ice and salt i thought hmm maybe i'll try this guess what the ice cube was cold both times. no difference.

Boy, I hope I don't get hammered for "reposting the same thing".

Salt, ice, science? No. Four pages, umpteen months later, and you know what? It's still cold when you mixed up an hour ago!

This is just about as close to a non-worthy thread that I have seen since becoming a member.

Will some one please shoot this dead horse so that the rest of us can go ahead and cook it? Come on folks, the rest of us are hungry enough to eat a ..err...horse!

Welcome aboard, Kkina! I was thinking about old-fashioned homemade ice cream freezers myself. Actually, you can still buy them, and they stock the salt for them in the same aisle usually.

Funny, isn't it? We think of ice cream, they all think of beer. (Though I confess that the conjuntion of salt and ice *did* also make me think of, is it margueritas?).

HAHAH G.I. JOE.

Wow, thank you for the laugh. I've never read anything so completely wrong in my life.

First of all, the effect IS frostbite. The water in the cells on your skin is literally crystallizing at such a low temperature, causing the cells to burst and die. That's what's happening here.

Secondly, the salt water doesn't enter the skin at-all, nor does its salinity have anything to do with the effect. As the salt water melts the ice, the water dissolves the salt and partially refreezes, lowering the overall freezing point of the surface ice. This means that, in the constant temperature, it has just started to melt more quickly, thus having the ability to absorb more heat from your skin. Extreme loss of heat = freezing, and freezing destroys cells. This reaction lowers the temperature on the surface of your skin to around -10ºF.

Third, the swelling isn't cause by your body trying to repair itself. It's caused by an imbalance in extracellular fluid. The cells are bursting and releasing their natural water content into the spaces between the dead cells, and this is causing a pocket of fluid to form underneath the skin.

Seeing as how this is a website formed for the purpose of education and people as to why things are or are not true, don't post such a fat load of misinformation, since you clearly have no idea how any of this works.

And by the way, for those trying to sound tough by saying that it doesn't hurt, that's just a load of bull honkey.

If you really did it to the point where it actually does anything at all, and you didn't experience pain, then I suppose you've just defied human physiology, and you're Superman.

This is frostbite. Frostbite hurts. That's all there is to it.

i agree it doesnt hurt

Then you either didn't do it right, or you're full of crap and are just trying to sound tough.

Thanks for bringing logic to the thread, Spacatta.

Welcome to the forum, also!

-Double post-

This is the most interesting Urban Legend that I have ever heard. And I have seen many Urban Legend shows on TLC. But this is very strange one. One would think they could get a wet cold and salty arm afterwards?

Margarita arm?

salt melts ice faster (hence that stuff on the sidealks) so i dont know about this

Actually ya, ah no. It will hurt if u do it properly. My friend was able to give himself a tatoo doing it. It didnt work to well but it does work. If u take cold ice like quite a bit. then you get salt, then put a bit of ice on ur arm, then salt, and then press teh salt into your skin with the ice and if u do it hard and long enough it will work. Well at least it did for him, I asked my science teacher and apparently doing it for long periods of time 5+ mins clots your blood which can leave a red mark and sting. From what i have seen this works.

I tried it, And it didn't hurt , but it made me itch like crazy.

If you put the end of a piece of string on an ice cube then sprinkle salt onto it, the string will be stuck to the ice-cube and you can pick it up by the string.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! WHO`S THE IDIOT WHO SAID THIS DIDN`T WORK!?! I put salt on my eye, then rubbed ice on it...AGGGH!!! I think I may have to go to the hospital. That`s the last time I ty to prove one of these things wrong. Man. You guys have no regard for the well being of others. Ouch....I can`t see out of my eye...thanks.

LOL! Well now you know better!

dude i just did it coz i waz curious. i put only a bit ov salt on an held the ice realhard an i only held it on 4 like 30 seconds. Holy crap It scared the crap outa me wen i took it off my skin had indented where it waz and was all white so i ran 2 the hot tap an held it under but luckily it tunred normal straight away. 2 bad now it is anoyin coz it keep stingin now lol cya

haha i made an fruit cream. i put in a re-sealable bag ( twice ) so that it wouldn't leak and put the bag with the cream in a container full of salted ice and withing 5mins i now have a really delicous homemade icecream.

on one hand i put salt and an ice and the other hand just an ice cube. the hand with just ice the cube slipped off after a couple of seconds , while the salt and ice the cube stayed firmly in place, salt an ice i felt more and left a little markwhich i felt for about a min afterwards. but i would go as far to say pain or burning

Nice!

Does this mean Margarita's should come with a warning label now?

I do know that lemon juice, salt and ice cleans coffee stains off glass or metal coffee pots better than just about anything else I've ever used, including the commercial coffee stain removers (Caffethema).

Ok, because I had nothing else to do this afternoon I tried this. Nothin', nadda, just a salty wet and cold wrist. **shrug** I tried table salt, sea salt and just for fun, Epsom salts (not really salt, but I had some so I thought I'd try)... it's the same either way--cold, wet, salty.... although my hands are real smooove after the epsom salts. .

I'd have been better off just dumping the salt, ice and adding some cream and peaches together, then I'd have some excellent ice cream. So yes, salt and ice does freeze well... it is afterall how ice cream is made, but just putting it on your hand with a cube of ice doesn't do much.

haha you crazy kid

I can't get over it. This is the necro-thread that just won't die.

Post three thousand one hundred! Yea ME! Do a little dance!

I watched a video of some kids puting salt on there arm then putting ice on it for like 5 minutes, it left huge scars.

Heh-heh! Scars are always fun. Really makes you look smart when you later have to explain how you got that nasty hole in your a*** to a potential employer.

yes it hurts put salt all over the ice andsqueeze it in your hand it really hurts so try it the reason it hurts is because it melts faster making it colder than what it is if your like me and you push it to its limits then it will hurt it takes a big chunk of skin off your hand well it did to me i still have a mark on my hand from doing it at camp about a week ago when everyone else was doing it i did not learn about it here

Worst explanation ever.

Im going to tell my friend to do it and if it hurts I will sh** myself laughing then post and tell you it worked.

I actually did this two years ago on my right wrist, though I don't recall for how long I did it, I had a large, slightly raised red mark for a week or so, and ever since then, i have absolutely no pigment in that spot [i'm naturally very pale anyway so it isn't that noticeable]

About a half hour ago, I did it on my stomach, and left ice on for at least 20 minutes. I have a low pain tolerance, and it does sting pretty bad, but I think that just may be the effect of ice on your for an extended period of time. After like five minutes it stopped stinging because my skin turned numb.
I'll post results in the next few days.

if it is done for along time, but it well purly due to how coild the ice is, the salt has nothing to do with it.

It doesn't hurt anymore than normal ice, but it leaves a hell of a mark. IMHO it's a nice experience to try.

Ice and salt ?

Have you ever been to a fish market ?
Because that's how fresh fish is put on display .
Then the guy takes the fish to weigh it ....He takes it with his bare hands out of the ice and salt . Never heard them scream .
Sorry for taking the illusion away .

Sama

i tried this to my right arm in a spot that has no feeling for an extended period of time to see what effects it would have on the skin after prolonged exposure. To put it simply the exact same thing tht happens when you remove salt from the equation.

Like normal ice it did leave the skin red for a short period of time but no lasting effects.

BTW the region is on my fore arm and when I say no feeling I mean no feeling at all because the nerves in that region have been severed from the spinal chord.

This is the worst of the necroposts. It just won't stay dead! It's so easy to go ad try it, easier than it is to type in a post, faster too. Why would anyone dredge this dreck up when the kitchen has a refridgerator with an ice tray in it?

I'm sorry but, I just can't see where the mystery is in this one. It's too simply to get off your butt and go find out! My G-d, its just salt and ice. I'm sure you have both of these wonder items inthe kitchen. Stop asking and start experimenting!

The next time this thread gets drug out of the coffin, I'm going to start a thread titled "Pencils, can you really write your name with them?".

Oh-well, simple pleasures for simple minds I guess.

a mixture of ice,salt, and lemon juice from just one wedge will clean burnt coffee out of a coffee pot.

this does have some ounce of truth like all urben legends, for example if you get an ice cube, some salt and some string, you can put the string on the ice cube then put some salt around and on the end of the string thats on the ice, the ice will melt and then it will re-freeze causing the string to get stuck to the ice, so the theory of this urban legend is that is you put some salt on your skin then put ice on it, your skin will get stuck to the ice, i doubt this would happen though with small amounts of ice, the most it would probably do is take some hair off your arm.

it left a red mark on my skin in the shape of a oval

Ice on your skin, will it feel cold? Film at eleven. Rather than killing all these poor electrons for nothing, why not just go to your moms kitchen and try it out!

Ice on your skin, will it feel cold? Film at eleven. Rather than killing all these poor electrons for nothing, why not just go to your moms kitchen and try it out!