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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Traditional_Award286 on 2025-05-30 10:01:48+00:00.

Hi all! I saw a post on here about someone accidentally getting some icy hot by their junk and it reminded me of my own fuckup.

Once upon a time I was down with baths. I LOVED baths. A few years ago we had a hot summer and i was crispy sunburnt.

Previously I was gifted some bath oils and thought it would be a GREAT idea to use PEPPERMINT OIL in the bath, to cool down my skin… “Peppermint make sunburn feel cool!” Big brain thought. Big brain is stupid and actually little. I wasn’t careful and dropped the bottle in the tub.

It was pure torture. Like fuck dude.

The peppermint latched onto all of my skin after spreading in the water and would burn/freeze it into an icy blast of pain if i sat still in the water. But if i moved, the hot/warm water felt like FIRE because of the oil! There was no middle ground, no relief. I tried to sit through it thinking it would just sting for a moment oh but i was so wrong.

I never imagined i could suffer pure torture while smelling like a peppermint patty bliss. I couldn’t take it anymore, after draining the tub i had to shower it off.

🥲 that was a bigger betterer brain idea. (Aka no, no it wasn’t.)

I could only get cold water because I used up the hot water for the bath. My sunburn made it hard to get the oil off, and my nerves were overwhelmed and I could barely touch my skin. It felt like it was all going to slough off me any moment, every touch sent shock waves i could feel buzz through my teeth.

I was huffing and puffing like i ran a marathon and crying through it all, and i was thankful that the one braincell who wasn’t still on vacation hung back to give me the foresight to no touch my face and eyes to wipe away the tears.

I couldn’t use a towel. I refused to touch anything else… i committed myself to just air drying and laying down on the bed and not moving at all for a bit….to RECOVER.

I think the braincell took a coffee break, to make this a margarita of a wound…I hobbled out of the bathroom….into a room blasting ac.

After being immersed in peppermint oil water.

With a sunburn akin to Larry the Lobster.

TLDR; While sunburnt, I took a bath and dropped peppermint oil in the tub. It turned me into a peppermint patty of pain. Followed up by being freeze dried by the ac.