Wow — how cool is it that petroleum jelly antibiotic ointment can be used to help your fire start?! Stewart explains below how this can help your fire, and I find this an ingenious way to keep your fire going throughout the night when it's cold and damp!
It turns out that by taking your tinder bundles and then mixing them with petroleum jelly, you can actually turn your fibers into a wick! These tinder bundle will now burn up to 100 times as long as normal tinder bundles would. A fire's flame that's much bigger and stronger will not only continue to burn throughout the night, but you won't have to worry about dealing with the inclement weather challenges!
After all, who wants to be freezing cold when you're already dealing with a survival situation on your hands?!
Save the Vaseline.
Coconut oil is better
Thanks for saving me the clickbait ..
Also good for a chapped$#%&!@*also.
Thanks. I hate this$#%&!@* when they could just say it.
I already have cotton balls slathered in Vaseline in my outdoor bag. Also a small dollar size bottle of hand sanitizer, small medicine bottle of dryer lint, a bic lighter, and magnesium bar/flint as well.
Old news.
Take leftover wax from candles and melt them into egg cartons. Some of the best fire starters ever. Vaseline works really well too.
Thought we all knew that
Kinda like paraffin wax shavings in ur tinder and using a candle to light the fire…
Edgar Houghtby
We use dryer lint with gasoline. Works great!
Grab some chapstick or similar lip oinment, does the same thing. Plus it comes in it’s own container and you can use it on small sticks or other tinder as well.
While gasolilne may work, I’d not want it in my BOB or the get home bag in my car. But I do have dryer lint in both bags.
lol I love it when so many better or common ideas flood their advert post.
I used cotton balls & Vaseline to provide myself warm water for drinks & shaving (not at the same time) when I was in the field doing marine stuff. Seems the antibiotic is better used for cuts & scrapes
I like to put balls of dryer lint in paper egg cartons, then poor melted wax over it. Easy way to start camp fires. Seems like it’d be good for the get home bag.
Sorry- auto spell six. vasoline- not gasoline.
You know you could just tell us what it is without all the clickbait, right?
That makes more sense. 🙂
Been doing the dryer lint and vasoline in medicine bottles for years. Works great.
Drier lint stuffed in a straw and sealed with vaseline. Light a simple crayon it will burn for a couple of hours.
It turns out that by taking your tinder bundles and then mixing them with petroleum jelly, you can actually turn your fibers into a wick! These tinder bundle will now burn up to 100 times as long as normal tinder bundles would. A fire’s flame that’s much bigger and stronger will not only continue to burn throughout the night, but you won’t have to worry about dealing with the inclement weather challenges!
I carry a spice bottle full of cotton balls soaked in Vaseline.
Been doing this for years.
Vaseline…
I use dyer lint shoved in a cardboard egg cartoon then topped off with candle wax. Tear them off and you have 12 starters
Candle wax- great idea. Add to dryer lint and vasoline.
I’m getting tired of click bait websites.
Already had it. Guess there are a few perks from living up here in the part of the County that was never on the “big map” in the “Patrol Office” or “Roll Call” room!? Huh?! Ha!
You can also play Brokeback Mountain with it!
old news for beginners most people dont even know what a bugout bag or EDC are
I just carry a bic lighter ,works everytime
Vasaline and cotton balls can be pre made and stored
Callie Richard
That’s awesome!!
Been rubbing cotton balls with Vaseline for ages, storing in an old plastic film canister, keep it and the magnesium striker in the same pack – it only takes one tiny spark to light it.
VickiMarksbury You guys should start reading this stuff
So…..how much room in the trunk of the car , is large jar of petroleum gel going to take ? And a good waterproof striker ? Good advice .
vegetable oil,dammit
Wow, what an awesome hack
Works every time! I’ve also used Crisco in a can. Much cheaper and works exactly the same.
Is it logs?
George Gonzalez Jr
good info i have cotton balls with Vaseline in old prescription bottles ready and dryer lint also 🙂
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