Chapstick

[orly152]

zombease.com/2013/04/10/tip-of-the-day-79-chapstick-survival-uses/

While it might seem silly or even impossible chapstick can actually help save your life… and not just because it keeps your lips nice and pretty. Capable of being utilized in a number of ways to help endure your survival, these little tubes of topical salve are a cheap, easy to use and readily available supply that no proper preparedness or anti-Zombie folks should be without.

Protect Your Skin: We all know that when applied directly to the lips, chapstick can help reduce the risk of painfully cracked and dry lips, but did you know that it works on the hands and face just as well? In fact, chapstick can act as a protectant against biting winds and bitter colds no matter where you put it (though it’s more effective some places than others). Applied to the face and ears, chapstick can help decrease the risk of heat loss, frostbite and windburn and the same can be said when applied to the ears or hands of an individual.

Start A Fire: Many of the chapsticks available on the market today are petroleum based. That means that they will burn well even in wet and somewhat windy weather. Small slices or smudges of chapstick can be used as stand alone fire-starters. However to achieve a longer/stronger burn time, try working some chapstick into a cotton ball or throughout your tinder pile. This is exceptionally helpful when dealing with damp wood or when trying to light a fire with little natural tinder available.

Treat A Wound: Small cuts and abrasions – like the kind you might get from shaving, handing a bit of wire, gardening or working your way through brambles – can be treated with just a little bit of chapstick… though I’d recommend not using scented kind as the oils may irritate the wound. Always clean your cuts, no matter how small, before applying any topical treatments. For proper wound cleaning procedures see: Clean Your Cuts.

Camoflage: Mixed with a bit of dirt or ash, chapstick can be made into a fairly effective camouflage for use in some survival and disaster situations, though we doubt it’ll help you fool the Undead. They have an uncanny way of find humans no matter where they are.

With all the ways chapstick can come in handy during a disaster or survival situations, maybe it’s time you went out and grabbed a few sticks for your Bug Out Bag, Emergency Kit, and Every Day Carry.

So, with that said, what else can you use chapstick for ?

[thywar]

I was in Sam's one day and picked up a 20 pack. On one of my projects (at a Chamber of Commerce) they had sticks of chapstick with a bank's name on them as giveaways. I came home with about two dozen of those. They're handy.. right up until you leave it laying in the console inside your vehicle and it's 110 outside and about 125 on the inside.. PPPPPP... Most will understand what that row of 'Ps' stands for.. It starts out 'Prior Planning....'

[ColcordMama]

I like chapstick, I really do and always have, but I've discovered something better. It comes in a little round tub about the size of a small egg, you can find it in almost any cosmetic department and Dollar General and similar stores, and it's Palmer's Cocoa Butter. Very cheap, excellent on lips, abrasions, cuts, skin irritation and dryness, helps heal sores and lubricate chapped and rough areas, baby diaper rash, you name it, and it also smells like CHOCOLATE. A little tub of it lasts FOREVER. You just have to be careful you don't leave it laying in your car, just like chapstick, because it will melt.

[offtrail]

I use it as lube lol no no not like that. I use it to lubricate the bearing block for the bowdrill

[garret]

i have also used chapstick to protect my bowstring from the rain while out hunting (i forgot my stringwax at home like an ejit)

[cajunlady87]

I do have a few tubes of chapstick for convenience of size but my main supply is the jars of Murray's Bees Wax which I bought when Dave Canterbury mentioned using it as a longlasting firestarter some time back. It is 100% bees wax and I bought those in the hair care products at Family Dollar, much cheaper and you get so much in the jar plus it hails from Garret's backyard.

[garret]

i have about 10 jars of it, i t certainly isnt to style what little hair i have left lol, good stuff too

[cajunlady87]

Jun 12, 2013 15:47:08 GMT -7 garret said:

i have about 10 jars of it, i t certainly isnt to style what little hair i have left lol, good stuff too

Great stuff, a little goes a long way, and best of all it is a multi-purpose item from treating chapped lips and sunburn, to a long lasting firestarter and can even be used to lubricate gun parts, same as a chapped stick tube like orly mentioned plus.

[garret]

Jun 12, 2013 16:19:18 GMT -7 cajunlady87 said:

Jun 12, 2013 15:47:08 GMT -7 garret said:

i have about 10 jars of it, i t certainly isnt to style what little hair i have left lol, good stuff too

Great stuff, a little goes a long way, and best of all it is a multi-purpose item from treating chapped lips and sunburn, to a long lasting firestarter and can even be used to lubricate gun parts, same as a chapped stick tube like orly mentioned plus.

and if you leave it in your car on a hot day it doesnt run everywhere either

[orly152]

Jun 12, 2013 5:50:34 GMT -7 cajunlady87 said:

I do have a few tubes of chapstick for convenience of size but my main supply is the jars of Murray's Bees Wax which I bought when Dave Canterbury mentioned using it as a longlasting firestarter some time back. It is 100% bees wax and I bought those in the hair care products at Family Dollar, much cheaper and you get so much in the jar plus it hails from Garret's backyard.

[cajunlady87]

Well orly I see you did your homework and found the video I was talking about. Now you know exactly what to look for and this stuff is so good, you get a lot for your money, it has multi-uses, plus a little goes a long way.