Talk:Bag Balm

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?

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)

For Hand Milking
I work on a farm where we hand milk or cows. We apply a small amount of salve to our hands before milking (it's very difficult without it). We call this bag balm, although we make it ourselves from beeswax, vegetable oils, and essential oils. We also use this for lip balm, etc. I believe this was the original purpose for Bag Balm, as a milking salve. It kind of mentions this on the canadian site: "... to sooth cow udders after milking." ---Ames (talk) 00:48, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Other uses
Within the Toronto circus community, Bag Balm is frequently used for burns from silks and ripped skin from the static trapeze bar. From my experience, I've found that it hydrates the skin and prevents more damage. It also allows you to continue to train on your apparatus depending on the location of the irritation and how severe it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.198.251.106 (talk) 20:59, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

FDA only inspects for animal use?
{The product is officially only meant for animals and is inspected as such by the United States Food and Drug Administration.} I'm an engineer at a plant in Rhode Island where we make Bag Balm. I can guarantee that this product is examined by the FDA in the same way as any other OTC product intended for human use. Nobody is trying to fool the FDA into thinking that this product is not meant to be used on humans, haha. The citation they use is from 2010 (7 years ago), and it claims that the only plant is in VT. I'm going to remove that bit. 2600:8805:A982:CB00:F1A3:8825:4822:F3BF (talk) 01:43, 4 December 2017 (UTC)