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What do you use Vaseline for?
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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.
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.
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.