[mdallensr]

My Vermont Bee Balm says it contains bee's wax and olive oil. With a little experimenting, one should be able to conjure up a similar substance without endangering any wildlife. Being a bit lazy, I'm sticking with the handy little tin can the Vermont people put their balm in. At the rate I'm using it, one of them will last for many years. I'd rather carve than conjure any day. Mike

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Originally Posted by mdallensr

My Vermont Bee Balm says it contains bee's wax and olive oil. With a little experimenting, one should be able to conjure up a similar substance without endangering any wildlife. Being a bit lazy, I'm sticking with the handy little tin can the Vermont people put their balm in. At the rate I'm using it, one of them will last for many years. I'd rather carve than conjure any day. Mike

Is it greasy? and ...how many times a day do you have to put it on? I have some stuff I get at wallyworld called "cornhuskers" it works great when I remember to use it! and sometimes takes a couple times a day because I wait too long lol. but rubs in and not greasy!

[AlArchie]

There's another good remedy for those cracked finger tips called "Bert's Bees". We first found it at Trader Joe's, but now I see it's in Wallgreen Drugs and a few other places. Bees wax and axle grease I think, but it works great! I'm only kidding about the axle grease........

Al

[mdallensr]

Dave, I got two of the tins of Vermont Bee Balm. I keep one at work and one at home. I put it on once each day, and it doesn't seem to matter when. It takes a bit to be absorbed, so I don't put it on right before I carve. If I go a few days without it, the cracks start to show up. I'm sure there are other effective products, but when I find something that works for me, I stop looking.

[heineda]

Hello,

I use a product called Ahava. It is mud from the Dead Sea, and works better than anything else I have ever tried. You can buy it at Nordstroms, Macys, Carson etc.

Dan

[Bob_in_TN]

Another great one is Bag Balm, but is greasy. Goes back more years than I like to remember.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Yeh, have used bag balm and its way to greasy for me....what I use it for....when my hands get really bad, I put the bag balm all over my hands and a pair of rubber gloves just before bed......sometime during the night when I get sick and tired of the gloves lol, I pull them off and my hands are soft as a babies butt.......almost all of the bag balm soaks in....shows how really dry your hands can get!

[Kenny_S]

Woolfat. a Horse save, same as bag balm. Takes the sorness out of any cut, works on baby's butt when they have a rash. Doctors could not cure my son when he had a baby's butt rash and my little bride took him in the bathe room and smeard this woolfat allover his butt. that evening his butt was not as red and on fire and the next day, more better and no rash the third day. Yep, the doctors don't know everything. Anyway, The woolfat has been in the family ever since. My side was the Bag balm! Nasty smelly oily stuff.