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I have a tub of Vaseline and have hardly scratched the surface. I'm curious whether anyone uses it for anything other than their lips.

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[โ€“] spread@programming.dev 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] jws_shadotak@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] iesou@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] boot@lemmy.loungerat.io 1 points 1 year ago

That's pretty neat!

[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems counter productive to tree survival

[โ€“] iesou@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.