Garlic molecules are so highly penetrative that if you rub a raw clove directly onto the soles of your bare feet, you will actually be able to taste and smell the garlic in your mouth within an hour.

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Garlic molecules are so highly penetrative that if you rub a raw clove directly onto the soles of your bare feet, you will actually be able to taste and smell the garlic in your mouth within an hour. The active chemical compound called allicin easily passes through your dermal layers, enters your bloodstream, and takes a joyride through your entire circulatory system until it reaches your salivary glands and nasal passages. This strange phenomenon proves that your skin is basically just a giant, highly porous sponge eagerly absorbing whatever bizarre chemical compounds you happen to step on or apply to it. It really makes you reconsider the chemical ingredients in all those cheap, heavily fragranced body lotions you enthusiastically slather all over your legs every winter. Your body is just a giant meat straw sucking up environmental flavors from the ground up