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With the changes in flora and fauna, Abby was distinctly lacking in tea tree and mint oil sources, but they still needed to have antiseptic options beyond the limited amounts of alcohol and boiling. You couldn't very well boil a person's cut unless you wanted to add a burn to their already injured epidermis (and dermis, maybe), and even with the nanobots that healed injury (which were just fantastically cool), she wasn't willing to completely abandon natural methods of wound management. Plus this gave her something to do, and there was only so much snowball-throwing she could do.
A book she'd found had informed her that pine oil could be used as a disinfectant if it was steam extracted (which made sense if you thought about all the pine-scented cleaning products on the shelves) so she'd spent time gathering a basket full of pine needles, which were in great abundance, to say the least. The needles were too long to fit in her distillation apparatus all by themselves, so she was cutting them into segments before placing them in the round-bottomed flask and starting the extraction process, which released a pungent odor of pine into the lab, adding to the usual smells and mingling a little oddly. Their lab definitely smelled better than most labs, but the combination of smells sometimes got a little absurd.
And hey, even if the nanobots did make her essential oils obselete, they could use the pine oil as a natural deodorizer in the bathrooms. That was always useful.
She hummed a selection of carols as she cut and placed and steamed and checked and generally was a very happy gothy science geek.
A book she'd found had informed her that pine oil could be used as a disinfectant if it was steam extracted (which made sense if you thought about all the pine-scented cleaning products on the shelves) so she'd spent time gathering a basket full of pine needles, which were in great abundance, to say the least. The needles were too long to fit in her distillation apparatus all by themselves, so she was cutting them into segments before placing them in the round-bottomed flask and starting the extraction process, which released a pungent odor of pine into the lab, adding to the usual smells and mingling a little oddly. Their lab definitely smelled better than most labs, but the combination of smells sometimes got a little absurd.
And hey, even if the nanobots did make her essential oils obselete, they could use the pine oil as a natural deodorizer in the bathrooms. That was always useful.
She hummed a selection of carols as she cut and placed and steamed and checked and generally was a very happy gothy science geek.