This is perhaps OT since strictly not a nasal snuff, but we tend to talk about snus etc, so I’m posting in Snuff Types. I’m wondering if anyone has tried these and what their availablity is outside India. Perhaps Namrata knows something about them? This one looks like a proper snuff:IPCO Snuff This one is toothpaste: IPCO Creamy SnuffRead some of the opinions too, kind of funny. I want to try both. Maybe they will cure my gum recession I tried filling out the contact form, but got an error message. I may try the email next and ask for samples. For all I know this may be stocked in the local Indian grocery store. Anybody have any input on this?

They are both meant for oral use. You can find more discussion on this forum about this by searching the word ipco under comments. Maybe if you use some on your gums you can gargle with Tobacco Liqueur

I knew you would know something Trout! Yes, I see there has been some previous dicussion. I did a search right after posting this. This is the last time I start a new post without doing a search first! :-/ (maybe) Anyway, still don’t know how to get it. Mr. Snuff said he could obtain it. Why not sell it on his site? Will there never be an end to the creative ways to get nicotine into our bodies?

I remember talking about this. Wierd stuff, not sure if I could handle it.

Wow, I really want to try that perique liqueur! Bookmarked for when it is back in stock.

Unfortunately the Perique liqueur is nicotine free, wouldn’t stop me from trying it but the price tag might.

Looks like a two a…person job there, have to be real careful who you smoke with for sure.

…very interesting. Go to the website and click on “opinions” to see the remarks. I appears that the product is a cure all. I wonder if it works for hemroids too?

@ NickKick: What do you use for this bruhing method? A regular toothbrush? I take it you use American dry snuffs for this purpose. I’ve tried rubbing with finger and a short stick a few times. I’m wondering if there is a more effective way of doing this.

Reading the opinions and the descriptions, this very much reminds me of the cure all “snake oil” types of medicines they used back in the old west, except they used alcohol instead of tobacco and natural things.

All of the original Dholakia snuffs can be taken orally as well. And the Manjul can also be used as a tooth powder.

I wonder how good tobacco is for your teeth too since there’s a substantial bit of sugar, in the Virginia blends at least. Don’t know that you’d want to keep this stuff marinating on the teeth for too long after a brushing. I bet it would give you a good little buzz in the morning though, perfect start for the hangover-helper regimen.

@NickKick- I’ve had those tobacco mints. They’re not too bad. Over time I got really tired of them, and they really didn’t take care of my Nic needs, unless I ate one after another. Plus, they are super cheap, averaging $1.50 each.

Very intersting NickKick. Can you post a picture. I tried brushing with Tops Sweet the other day, with a toothbrush. It genetated a lot of saliva! More than I would get from dipping the other way. Yes, I know it goes on the gums, not the teeth. Also how much liquid in the glass with the tobacco?

tea is really good for your mouth I’ll definatly try that for sure

I’m reviving this to ask if anyone ever did get hold of some IPCO Creamy Snuff. I am really intrigued with this. I guess I just need to try everything at least once. Is this obtainable in North America or not?

I had some. Had 2, traded one to a member here, haven’t seen him post in a while, and another to someone on snuson. It’s an odd thing. I really don’t think it would appeal to anyone here. It comes in a toothpaste like tube, and is very dark jell like cream. I read mostly women in India use it. But the way it’s used, based on what I read any my trying of it, is you put some on your finger, and them rub your gums with it, wait about 5 mins or so, and then rinse your mouth out. The taste is not bad, cool mentholly, but I just found it impractical and maybe only did it 3 times before it sat for a long time untouched. I can’t recommend it. I think the curiosity would end up like it did with me. You’d try it once or twice and never again. It wasn’t “bad”, just the implementation of it, I found, to not be very user friendly, or practical.

@tom502: Where did you manage to find it? I know what IPCO Creamy Snuff is and how it is used. When I lived in Hamburg, I knew of an Indian shop where a lot of Muslim girls would go and buy this stuff. I had no interest in trying it then, but would like to now. I probably wouldn’t find it very engaging either, but you only live once, so why not give it a try?

I found it at an Indian grocery store.

Xander said: “Mr. Snuff said he could obtain it. Why not sell it on his site?” I second that, I’d buy it! It would be another who would be interested to try this, and it would be the one exceptoin to my 'no menthol/minty things please" personal preference (if it came in more than one flavor I’d try them all… minty/menthol is ‘allowed’ even a good thing if its a thing that resembles a tooth paste). I might have to email “MrSnuff” (who btw is a super good guy) and ask about this.

I’d get some just to saite curiousity

It’s not all that. It’s a mentholly tar colored toothpaste like stuff, in a similar tube, and you rub it on your gums, and then rinse your mouth out in 5 mins or so.

well I’d still like to have some to see how ‘not all that’ it is, for myself. you know, its just like hearing somebody else tell you about a snuff you’re interested in just isn’t the same. Maybe a person could even use it with a bit of 'real" toothpaste to have their cake and… I mean get their fluoride teeth cleaning and nicotine too all at once. I emailed MrSnuff about this and gave a link to this thread, hoping more will express an interest and maybe he’ll really consider carrying it.

I can get some, but I really have no idea when, it’s this Indian grocer, but it’s way on the other side of town, and I don’t get there too often. It’s been a little while since I was there, but they had that, and some older Himalaya snuff, this TAS Madras snuff, and this Rose snuff. And some of those little packets of oral tobacco, which I never thought to try back then.

@Tom502, this is good to know… if we can’t convince MrSnuff (I’d like to give it a little more time and effort first) I might whisper and ask if I can try to work something out with you. Got me wondering now if we have shops like that around here (medium-sized city with a name you’d know if I said it)… I’ve never seen or noticed any and don’t see a bunch of Indian people out and about but as I sit here and think about it nearly every medical professional I’ve seen lately are decidedly Indian with Indian names… and they have to live around here somewhere, and would have grocery stores too

Look up Indian grocery in your yellow book, or go to an Indian restaurant and ask them. Our main Indian restaurant is right next to the Indian grocery. If/when I have a plan to go that way again, I’ll let everyone know.

I have seen some while in SanDiego scoping out the Indian stores. The label said 50% tobacco.

From my personal experience, don’t bother calling the store. It’s like talking to a brick wall.

@tom502 Are they actualy listed llike that, in the phonebook like that?? *facepalm* (I will go look in just a few minutes from now) Since somebody else lives where I live and let on and got me started on it in another thread I guess its alright to say in here: I live in Kalamazoo and yes, cstokes4 – (who may have the erroneous impress that this is “Podunk, Nowhere” or something lol), we do have a nice big fat phonebook and good point on calling (using telephones isn’t exactly my ‘forte’ anyway) If I find something I’ll cajole my buddy to take me and find it (and he will predictably object that “thats way across town” because everything is here, its like a Physics tweak or something we’ve got going on I guess that nothing ever near)

I’m not sure how it’s listed, I think my local store is Patel Bros, and they have nationwide stores. I would not call, but find the address and go.

Probably under grocery stores.

In my phone book it’s under ethnic grocers.

I bought 2 tubes of it, months ago. Like I think said before, it is not “bad”, in that, I thought it had a nice taste, kinda odd, but not bad. But the thing, for me, was it was so impractical. I think I used it twice, and it sat on my shelf for months. I just never “wanted” it. I traded one off to a member here, whom I haven’t seen post in a while, and sold one to someone on snuson, who is finding it not to their liking, and passing it on. But I do understand the novelty curiosity. I’m like that too. I was so curious about those Oliver Twists, then ended up finding them unsatisfying and not liking how they are made, but the taste was OK.

No luck with the phone book method: nothing at all under ‘ethnic’ or "indian’ at all and there is nothig I can detect in our long listing of grocery stores (no plainly stated "Indian’ or any recognizable ‘indian-like names’ shown).

grocery or grocer may work too. Just look for an indian sounding name! Right.

World of Spices! I was racking my brains when I last whispered you trying to remember the name, and of course when I wasn’t thinking about it it pops into my head. It doesn’t sound like an Indian grocer at all; but it most certainly is (they even had things like puja kits for Dhawali, which was about to be observed when I visited last). Yes, that’s it; World of Spices. Hope I gave you sufficient directions.

LOL that name makes perfect sense around here (ever noticed how everything here is “world of”? off the top of my head as I sit here I can think of: World of CD Rom" “World of Meat” “world of Batteries” “World of Vacuum Cleaners” etc I think we have a “World of Bread” but not sure on that one) anyway thank you!

world of pain???

and… what would a store called World of Pain sell? S&M stuff? (nm… give kzoo just two minutes it’ll probably have one doing exactly that)

Spatula City! http://www.goldenspatula.net/1989.jpg

@ tom502 – LOL well if it was in Kalamazoo it’d have to be renamed to “World of Spatulas” (really seems to be a ‘thing’ with us)

Is there really a place called Kalamazoo? Stefan

*slapping Walrus1985" Okay you got me, I just completely made it up and I live in the land of faeries just left of Oz Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain (or this map): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Kalamazoo&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Kalamazoo,+MI&gl=us&ei=RkSZS-eGCobYNu2vnHo&sa=X&oi=geocode\\_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CA4Q8gEwAA or this http://www.kalamazoocity.org/portal/index.php or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo,\\_Michigan oh, and, *I* am the Walrus (goo goo ga joob)

I remember at my first Allman Brothers show in Massachusetts, I was tripping balls and wandering around when I struck up a conversation with a stranger. The moment I told him I live in Kalamazoo, he absolutely refused to believe another word I said! My obvious mirth at the situation only “confirmed” his suspicions; he was CERTAIN that I was giggling because I was trying to pull a fast one on him (of course, it couldn’t have anything to do with the mushrooms or the fact that this cat refused to believe in the town I lived in).

“World of Pain” it’s something I called my 1 cat for a while. He had a habit of steping on you where it would hurt the most. It was almost a supernatural ablity of his. He kept trying to sleep on my new tattoo for a while. Oh yeah he was freakishly large for a house cat. Skinny and over tweenty pounds.

“Hello, this is Cy Greenblum, president of Spatula City. I love their spatulas so much…I bought the company.”

You’ve got to be flippin’ crazy to invest in spatulas…

well, if they made an itty bitty (and I mean really itty bitty) spatula I could use for sniffing they might have a customer in me (I’d prefer a spoon but having nothing but an overgrown czech spoon and one very little screwdriver to work with I’d gladly take anything).

Twinkie wiener sandwich anyone???

Lol fair enough it exists. Can’t think of any funny place names near me I live in a town called Clay Cross but thats not exactly funny is it lol. Stefan

I rattled off a bunch of our silly Michigander names in another thread (was trying to get slobandtom’s attention just to let him know I live here too) Its always nice to confuse an out of towner by telling them “I’ve boiled eggs in Coldwater!” “I’ve been to Hell and yes it was frozen over” “I’ve been to Hell and I’ve been to Purgatory. Hell was nicer.” “I came to Climax” Closed captioning for the Obvious Impaired: the following Michigan locales were just referenced: Coldwater, Michigan, Hell, Michigan, Purgatory, Michigan, Climax, Michigan – and I don’t even know where to start in about Colon, Michigan

Did everyone end up throwing out their IPCOs? Or is it just sitting in a drawer somewhere? Interesting stuff, not a bad taste, but just not very useable desireable to me. Mine is sitting in a drawer, not touched in a while.

I tried it and I’m glad I did but it is not something I would do every day. Wierd stuff IMO. Stefan

I found a tube of it, but still haven’t tried it.