It’s Arkansas. The lanolin comes from washing sheep in the Hot Springs and skimming the top. You gotta pay up for that quality.
Don’t forget the suint. What’s suint? Dried sheep perspiration left in the wool. Seriously, there’s a word for dried sheep sweat; I’m not making this up.
With some of the high price stuff lately, i was expecting to find that Vaseline was now $15
I guess they do sweat in those wool coats in Arkansas.
Actually, Vaseline brand is kinda pricey. But store brand is still cheap.
And as Granny always said “it all comes from the same pot, honey pie!”
While reading the Wikipedia article on petroleum jelly, I read this slightly disturbing passage about the guy who developed and patented Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough:
Didn’t he also swallow a teaspoon of the stuff every day? Yeesh.
lanolin is def. good for your skin (chapstick is mainly lanolin, as are nipple-creams).
I bought 100g for 5 bucks in my pharmacy. It lasted me a good couple of years (used it not only as lip/skin cream, but also for leather-goods) - if you don’t mind the smell (like wet sheep).
It is the grease of the WOOL of the sheep (not animal-fat of a dead sheep) - and is also an excellent natural non mineral lubricant.
doesn’t get much better than that for your skin!
Hence, my sensitivity to lanolin. Ewww, sheep juice!
If you are not allergic, lanolin is wonderful. Me and @Beckdawrek though, we can’t use it without risking a reaction. I use CereVe and vegetable oils. Cheap olive oil can be great, but oil can stain clothing, especially synthetic materials.
For Henry’s sake!
it’s not sheep juice, it’s sheep grime!!!
I remember back when LANOLIN was listed in ads as if it were magic. It even got listed in one Rocky and Bullwinkle episode.
Not quite, for ChapStick at least. First ingredient is petrolatum. It does have lanolin (and isopropyl lanolate - not sure if that’s related) but they’re fairly far down the list.
I assume that many of the ingredients are to make the stuff somewhat solid, versus the goopiness of regular petroleum jelly.
Also, I did not know until I googled it just now that petrolatum is the North American term widely used for petroleum jelly - I knew they were the same thing, but I’ve never called it petrolatum.
We buy honey and pollen from a local beekeeper who is also a holistic healer of sorts. He has a clinic for massages and also bee sting therapy. He sells all kinds of bee products. He was trying to sell me some hand lotion made from beeswax and got off on a tangent about how lanolin and other things were foreign substances that had no place on your skin. Like we produce honey ourselves. I told him I like Cornhusker’s Lotion and he about fainted.
I went into a stupor myself.
Reminds me of my Daddy and his nightly foot routine.
That is hilarious.
I have made a balm from olive oil and beeswax. It’s great for those hard to moisturize parts like feet, elbows, and sometimes hands. But if using a product like this doesn’t work well if you then start trying to text on your phone without scrubbing it off beforehand, you will have a mess. I learned it was strictly a before going to bed product, but it works well.
I found some stuff called ‘Resta’ The Melting moisturizer. Hmmm?
Label says it’s basically petroleum jelly and paraffin. No odor.
But it’s in French. Ooh la la!
(I found this in my cupboard, no idea how long it’s been there. It may be very expensive or not)
Made out of the resta the stuff that was left over after they made something else? 
Beck you can buy Resta from the Medical Monks so you got that going for you.