First - I know that I found this girl while I was on my 'arabian' kick a few years ago (If I remember correctly the site also might have said somtihg allong the lines of mexican, but I'm not sure), but I don't know the name of the girl in the shots, or the URL of the page she's from. I have...
Diatomacious Earth. It's made of long dead microscopic sea creatures, and it does two things:
1. It gets into the joints and just destroys them (like putting sand in your car's oil).
2. It dries them out - it's moslty a very dry silica and carbonate that just suck up water.
You do have to...