Chances are, you likely have lip balm of some sort squirreled away in your bug out bag or camping gear. After all, painfully chapped lips are one of the many things that can quickly put a damper on your entire outdoor experience.

However, it may come as a surprise to many that lip balm can serve a great many purposes for surviving out in the wilderness, apart from just keeping your lips supple and baby smooth.

For something so small and light, it’s worth far more than its weight in gold in a survival situation, and you can bet that if the world were to end today there would be people trading sticks of chapstick like hundred dollar bills.

To learn just a few of the great many uses for lip balm in an outdoor or survival situation, check out the tutorial on the next page.

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