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July 26, 2008, 9:42 am
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Does anyone use salve anymore |
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I use to use black salve to get out slithers of wood is it used anymore? |
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July 26, 2008, 6:49 pm
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Sean35 says... |
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I always make sure I have some handy. I can't remember the brand name but my mom always called it "drawing salve". It works great for splinters.
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July 26, 2008, 6:53 pm
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smitty says... |
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My mom had this and still does even though all of the kids have long since moved away. The kind she has is "petro-carbo" and I remember a lot of splinters coming out with it as I grew up. |
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July 26, 2008, 10:40 pm
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elvenrunelord says... |
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How does this salve work? I can't think of a single reason why putting salve on the skin would cause a splinter to come out on its on. |
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July 26, 2008, 11:21 pm
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Patty says... |
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We use it too. Here it's called "draw out salve" and it works great on stubborn splinters, especially in children where you don't want to dig them out with a needle.
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July 26, 2008, 11:38 pm
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JennieA says... |
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I've never heard of this, although I've always had a tub of Bag Balm on hand. A quick search turns up that it is 20% Ichthammol salve also called Black Salve, Black Drawing Salve, Drawout Salve, and Bear Grease. Seems to be used to draw out boils, bug and spider bites and splinters. At $3-5 a tube its pretty cheap compared to Neosporin. |
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July 27, 2008, 7:06 am
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KrisNY says... |
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Yes drawing salve. I don't have any but my mom still does. I can remember using this when I was a child. It worked wonderful- It was really gross though. Black and thick- like tar... but it pulled out slivers.
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August 14, 2008, 11:48 pm
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jimmys devoted says... |
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i still make salve too.
Petro carbo works great on wood splinters and to help draw out glass. put it n before hot bath and the sliver slides right out.
I know wfew store sthat sell all those rosebud salve, and farmers stil use it. Watkins has some awsome vanilla and mint salve.
Its the recursor to the twist up sticks.
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