Talk:Bag Balm
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What does it mean by a 'Quebec' product? I know we've bought it over here in the USA...
Also, should its incredible cheapeness be mentioned? I know that my family bought a $4 tin like, a decade ago, and we're not even halfway through, making it possibly the cheapest medical substance on earth. They may have raised the prices since then, though, I'm not sure.
Also, what does it mean, 'recently'? As noted, my family has been using the stuff for at least a decade...maybe that should be clarified?
[edit] Bag Balm not helpful
Years ago the nursing industry used bag balm on its treatment carts (1980's)I don't know why I don't see it anymore (I am a nurse now). But we recently aquired a Jersey cow from a Mennonite family who got her from a dairy. They have been battling her chapped teats for a year with bag balm. They are still chapped. It is my experience that any petroleum product wouldn't rub into the skin, but just stay there collecting dirt on your animals' udder. (we have had goats for over 10 years). So it wasn't long before I quit using it and used vegetable oil based lotions on my girls' udders, who have nice smooth skin. I have begun using geranium oil in an almond oil base and vitamins A and D in the oil also. She has just dropped off a black sore I suspect was there from two or three times a day iodine teat dips from the dairy. Geranium oil is touted in the herbal world as a help with excema. It has helped my dry elbows. it sems to have helped Buttercup. She is beginning to regain smooth teat skin.
Whisperingsage (talk) 20:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
