When my children were small, I stopped buying aspirin. The doctor recommended different pain killers. Once I no longer changed diapers, I stopped buying petroleum jelly (Vaseline)...
Why?! The name says it all! Who wants to rub a petroleum product on their skin?!
My mother, however, continued to use Vaseline on her hands and feet.
In the book I recently read on the 800-kilometer Camino de Santiago walk, not surprisingly, there was talk of blisters and other foot problems as people, unaccustomed to so much walking, aimed to complete 20 kilometers a day.
Early in the walk, after getting blisters like everyone else, the author was told by an experienced Camino walker to use Vaseline as a foot cream to avoid blisters.
Amazingly, it worked! No more blisters erupted!
Interesting!
Now I have gone out and bought... some Vaseline, too! You never know when it might come in handy!
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