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Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Yep, my mom was a nurse, both in emergency rooms and for a private practice doctor (general practice, I believe), and I wore plenty of mercurochrome (which was much better than the other one if I remember correctly. One stung like hell, and the other not so much. Based on what I'm seeing on these labels, the merthiolate stung because it was 50% alcohol while the mercurochrome says it's an aqueous solution, so I assume water based instead of alcohol.