Unique Uses for ChapStick Lip Balm

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Unique Uses for ChapStick Lip BalmLubricate with ChapStick

By Josh West

 

 

 

December 19, 2006

 

 

 

 

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A physician and pharmacologist by the name of Dr. C. D. Fleet invented the first lip balm in the early 1880s. Dr. Fleet lived in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the lip balm was in the form of a wickless candled from in tinfoil. After have no success at locally selling his chap stick, he sold the rights of his ChapStick lip balm for five dollars to a man named John Morton in 1912. His wife had melted the pink ChapStick mixture on her stove and poured the liquid through a small funnel into brass tubes held in a rack. The racks were then set outside for cooling purposes. The family then cut the molded ChapStick into sticks and placed them into containers to be shipped. However, in 1963, the A. H. Robins Company bought the ChapStick lip balm from the Morton family and by 1971, they had added four flavors. In 1989, the makers of Chef Boyardee foods, American Home Products Corporation, bought out the A. H. Robins Company and has since remained their product.

Although most people use ChapStick for dry chapped lips, did it ever occur to you what else this common household product could be used for? In fact, ChapStick lip balm has several uses that are unknown to most people. With this product, you can:

Stop the bleeding from shaving cuts by dabbing on some ChapStick on the cut itself.

Groom a mustache by using a little ChapStick on the ends of a mustache will keep the hairs in place. This also works on eyebrows.

Prevent hair coloring from dyeing your skin by rubbing ChapStick on your hairline before coloring your hair.

Prevent car battery corrosion by smearing ChapStick on clean car battery terminals.

Moisturize skin by rubbing ChapStick on your skin to prevent windburn.

Remove a ring stuck on a finger by coating the finger with ChapStick and sliding the ring off.

Lubricate a zipper by rubbing ChapStick along the teeth of the zipper. This should lubricate it enough to make it slide easily.

Lubricate furniture drawers by rubbing ChapStick on the casters of drawers and windows so they open and shut with ease.

Lubricate nails and screws by rubbing ChapStick on the nails and screws; this will help the nails slide in easier.

Shine leather shoes by rubbing a small amount of ChapStick over the leather and buffing with a dry cloth.