@alfredoolivas Sounds absolutely logical.

The reason I mention colours at all is because @CO3 keeps using the colour difference between Utrogestan and Progest-E as proof that Utrogestan contains titanium.

And I don't think that's proof. Maybe true, but not proof.

Not a big deal, but @CO3 has asked us to use our brains, and then mine started warming up. Sorry about that

The progesterone in Seidigestan/Utrogestan isn't chalky white but still white. Whiter that sugar dissolved in water.

I have deduced from other comments that Progest-E contains vitamin E, so it is not pure progesterone. The fact that Progest-E has a colour cannot be used to guess the colour of pure progesterone. For example, my own vitamin E powder is very yellow.

Unfortunately, I don't have the opportunity to travel to the US and buy Progest-E.

But I do have the opportunity to write to the Utrogestan supplier and ask. It's too bad they don't clearly describe whether the additives are in the capsule or in the contents.

@CO3 And how do you know that pure, unmixed micronised progesterone isn't white?

I mean, it could be white. I have no idea. If it is white, someone might have thought it wouldn't look nice in a transparent capsule. Remember, women only let nice things into their vaginas

I agree with @happycat that the titanium seems to be in the capsule only.

From the Seidigestan leaflet:
Lista de excipientes: Aceite de girasol, Lecitina de soja, Gelatina, Glicerol (E 422), Dióxido de titanio (E 171), Agua purificada
https://cima.aemps.es/cima/dochtml/ft/60814/FT_60814.html#6

From the Utrogestan leaflet:
What Utrogestan 100mg Capsules contain
• The active substance is progesterone. Each capsule contains 100mg progesterone.
• The other ingredients are sunflower oil and soybean lecithin (E322). The other ingredients in the capsule shell are gelatin (E441), glycerol (E442), titanium dioxide (E171) and purified water.
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/352/

By the way @happycat, I do exactly the same thing as you. I poke a hole and squeeze out the contents. If there's any residue, I chew the capsule lightly with my teeth and spit the rest of the capsule out. I end up applying it to my gums anyway, after mixing it with Vitamin E powder and coconut oil.

I mix progesterone with vitamin E powder and some drops of coconut oil.

I don't make a solution to store. I simply put the day's ingredients on a spoon, mix with a finger for 2 seconds, and apply directly to my gums.

I store coconut oil in this dropper container
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BY8Y6S8Z/

I use this Vitamin E powder (the capsules are easy to open)
https://www.timehealth.co.uk/product/vitamin-e-complex/

My conclusion is that all kinds of Fatty Acids, no matter how saturated, are absorbed through the skin by passive diffusion. The younger and thinner-skinned you are... the easier ...

Sunflower massage of children aged 2 to 24 months.
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937-021-00707-3

The Peat comment about oil painting makes sense to me now. I must soon begin reading him A-Z

@CO3 [about progesterone without prescription in Spain]

First of all, my British GP told me that bioidentical progesterone is called Utrogestan.

So, I simply brought a handwritten piece of paper to the Spanish pharmacy stating, in English as well Spanish, that I was looking for bioidentical progesterone similar to Utrogestan.

And they gave me Seidigestan.

Back home I checked on the Seid Lab homepage. They call it “natural progesterone” though, but I have googled a lot and found everywhere that Utrogestan and Seidigestan are similar.

The Spanish Drug Centre simply states the content as “progesterone”. They also state that the capsules are made from sunflower and soy. Sadly.

https://cima.aemps.es/cima/dochtml/ft/60814/FT_60814.html#6

@CO3 Yes it is true.

I bought bioidentical progesterone at a physical pharmacy in Spain. I just went into the nearest regular farmacia.

Seidigestan - 30 capsules of 100 mg - €5.81

They are also available in 200 mg but are then, for some reason, more expensive per mg.

Unfortunately, the capsules are not separable, so I make a hole and squeeze out a little bit every day. I use one 100 mg capsule over 3 days.

@CO3 Is Progest-E = progesterone? Maybe with some added Vitamin E?

If so, you’re kind of lucky living in Spain where Progesterone is available over the counter. Not like in the UK where I live currently.

My local GP refused to prescribe me Progesterone because I didn’t know the code words listed in the DHS Great Book of Drugs. Progesterone is only available for women “of a certain age” with hot flash symptoms and then only in combination with estrogen.

I went on holyday to Spain shortly after and bought a pack of Progesterone pills in the local pharmacy.

They didn’t have vitamin E, but back in the UK I found a hopefully good brand online.

So, for a month now, every day just before bedtime, I’ve been mixing and applying to my gums a pasta of Progesterone, Vitamin E powder, and coconut oil.

@natureman
One has to be constantly careful. I googled a recipe for such a soap, and it includes palm, sunflower and castor oil. Plus “essential oils as desired”.

But I've found a soup on Amazon with only goat and coconut.

I'm shocked and angry with myself for not thinking.

Back in the Covid days, when still on keto, I fell for the advertising hype that essential oils were good for almost everything.

I chose wheat germ oil as a carrier oil because it’s high in vitamin E and I’ve been using it ever since. And it actually works for me - it is able to cool down my rashes for a while.

What do you guys use for rashes?

Is there any such thing as an anti-estrogenic essential oil? Or anti-histaminic?