My phrasing referred to possible harm to the shells, not people.
 
Sylvia
 
mark wrote:
>
> Sylvia, when you phrase something like "resorting to acetone/laquer thinner"
> your over looking the fact that in you everyday life you are exposing
> yourself to far worse dangers then those. when you apply hairspray you
> basically coating your hair in schellac and denatured alcohol, when you put
> on the nail polish your applying laquer, gasoline is benzene (spell check)
> based and have been proven to cause cancer in the inmate population,opps i
> mean lab rats. we constantly expose ourselves to a battery of caustic and
> deadly chemicals daily and with little regaurd for the dangers therein. At
> least when we use acetone/laquer thinner we realise the dangers and use the
> proper precautions. Mark & Peta  Bethke
> Hollywood, Florida
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvia in Alabama <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: another question on cleaning
>
> >There is a choice available of fingernail polish removers - the regular
> >kind which contians acetone, and the non-acetone kind.  The non-acetone
> >was developed to use on acrylic (fake) nails.  I do not find it as
> >effective on real nails, but you might try it first on your shells
> >before resorting to acetone/laquer thinner.
> >
> >Sylvia Edwards
> >