#https://reddit.com/r/estrogel/w/index

[effemimaniac]

you can advertise how people can keep their hormones extra legally without supporting the fears about compounding at home. Plenty of people can vouch for specific providers of raw materials and have worked together to verify ways to make them work (for certain applications at least, not injectables) simply and easily and most importantly, cheaply. For some medications it *would* be insane to try to do it at home. Estrogen just isn't one of them.

sure, on the scale of home manufactured medicine estrogen is harder to fuck up. but I still don't think it's sensible or responsible to suggest it as an option to everyone, especially injectables which was what the posts I saw going around were describing and when there are sources for ready-to-use products available more easily. it's something I think could work at an economy of scale if you had someone genuinely experienced in compounding or at least with a chemistry background, to supply to others. that is what several of the DIY sources are doing after all. and maybe for the truly desparate, methods for making transdermal estrogen seem the safest to homebrew. but in general, for those unable to access HRT legally, DIY sources should be given as the first and highly preferable option, rather than homebrew suggested so lightly. the risks of Not properly knowing what you're doing should be taken seriously.