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Is it possible to get drunk through your skin ?

Me and my girlfriend just got a fan mister that sits over a five gallon bucket. Is it possible to get drunk through your skin? I figure if I dilute salt in tequila and pour it in this mister it will absorb through my skin like a brine via osmosis?

Just a friendly bet but I need outside science. 

Thanks in advance.
gpt
Yes, but you would really have to sit in a bath of it for a decent amount of time. Your external skin is pretty impermeable until it gets waterlogged. The ethanol would probably speed up that process, but a quick dip in alcohol, for instance, probably wouldn't do much/anything to you. In the lungs would be a different story, but also likely very painful/irritating. Alcohol also evaporates quite quickly. So, spreading it out over your body, you would probably lose most of it to evaporation before it even had a chance to be absorbed.

Overall, you're probably best to drink it if that's what you want. Some people have been known to administer alcohol via enema, but this is a very bad idea as it can be absorbed very quickly and not processed efficiently by the liver, resulting in very fast alcohol poisoning.