I have a tub of Vaseline and have hardly scratched the surface. I’m curious whether anyone uses it for anything other than their lips.
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It’s great for keeping rust off tools. Just the slightest whiff of vaseline will keep rust away for years. I tend to use a spray can of vaseline for that though, not a tub.
I use it to coat my car battery terminals.
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If I’m feelin’ fancy, I’ll break out the WD-40 Specialist Silicone
Water based dries pretty quickly
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TBH, it’s not that great for lips. Try Carmex.
Back in my marching band days, we swore by blistex DCT as our lip balm of choice.
Take it from the people who spend all summer out in the sun preparing to press pieces of metal up to our lips in sometimes freezing weather.
Carmex burns like fire
I play chess with it
I get super dry skin in winter, especially on my hands where my skin can even start to crack and bleed. Vaseline works wonders.
I have the same issue. Cocoa butter is my preference now, but Vaseline is quick and easy and available pretty much everywhere. Vaseline I feel helps protect my skin well, but cocoa butter actually absorbs into my skin better.
Same here, my foreskin also gets really dry during the winter months… _
I know a girl who thinks of ghosts. She’ll make you breakfast; she’ll make you toast. But she don’t use butter. And she don’t use cheese. She don’t use jelly, or any of these.
She uses Vaseline.
Vaseline.
Vaseline.
Is it you? Is it me? Search for things that you can’t see.
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No
Those are song lyrics. She Don’t Use Jelly by The Flaming Lips
Oh my bad!!
If only. We can dream.
My great aunt used to cook with it. By far the weirdest spaghetti Ive ever eaten. 0/10 do not recommend.
exzema and “slugging”, ie cover feet in foot cream (or any other body part/cream type), cover that in vaseline and wear socks for a couple hours or overnight.
Why on earth would you do that?
Covering in Vaseline is a way to effectively seal the lotion in.
Eczema
Ohh, that makes sense. Just seems like it’d feel mad gross to put socks on over Vaselined feet?
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Lubricating the O ring that sits inside the watch case of vintage divers watches to keep them waterproof.
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Most O-rings are made with a material called “Buna-N” (Nitrile), which is not degraded by oils, greases, or common fuels
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Mixing Vaseline with cotton and rolling it into small balls makes for surprisingly effective firestarter. Catches fire from almost everything (even flint and steel) and the burns with strong flame for like 2 minutes.
We put a cotton ball in the dogs’ ears when giving them a bath to prevent water going in their ears, and we apply Vaseline to the exposed part of the cotton ball - makes the cotton ball waterproof. I thought you were describing that when I started reading your comment.
I used these a bunch in some jungle training. Any petroleum based jellies worked great, so we used bacitracin packets as our additive.
Fun fact: dead bamboo will always be dry in the middle between two joints. You can split it up into a couple thin pieces and it makes great kindling.
Live bamboo will create a small pressure bomb.
Another fun fact for if you’re in a deciduous forest, beach tree bark will always light, even when wet. It contains a flammable oil.
That’s pretty neat!
That seems counter productive to tree survival
You don’t have to peel bark from a live tree… There are usually plenty lying around in a forest like that. So no it’s not really.
Dryer lint is great for that combo.
I use medical petroleum jelly on my carbon steel stuffs to prevent them from rust. I think it works better than WD40, and I don’t have to protect my hands while applying it.
And sometimes I mix it with bee wax as wood oil. I think it works.
