Badger Balm?

[Bob J]

After Dinner with my wife and daughter at Cracker Barrel, we looked around the gift shop (mandatory when eating at Cracker barrel with my wife and daughter :. I've always wondered if Bart's Beeswax lip balm or salve wouldn't make a suitable patch lube. But last night I started reading ingredients in "Badger Balm" and it listed things like beeswax and caster oil. :hmm:

Anyone ever tried any of that stuff as patch lube?

 

[oomcurt]

Never heard of Badger Balm...but if it is anything like bag balm...all I have to say is the guy that thought that one up and tried it on a badger has more guts than most folk... ::

 

[fatboy]

Never heard of it ! does it contain any badger parts :crackup: couldnt help it , could be worth a try !

 

[Stumpkiller]

I use the Badger Balm insect repellant and it is my favorite. Works as well as 100% DEET without making my eyes explode, and is easier on wood finish and smells nice.

Never tried it as lube, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked well.

 

[Bob J]

I use the Badger Balm insect repellant and it is my favorite. Works as well as 100% DEET without making my eyes explode, and is easier on wood finish and smells nice.

Never tried it as lube, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked well.

Stumpkiller- You use Badger Balm insect repellent or Badger Balm AS insect repellent?

 

[Stumpkiller]

Dawk? I donno. Only have ever seen one variety.

The tins say "BADGER" on top, "ANTI-BUG BALM" underneath a picture of a badger holding a fly swatter, and the words "Good for the skin - Bad for the bug" below that.

Active Ingredients: Citronella Oil (5.0%), Cedar Oil (2.0%), Lemongrass(2.0%), Rosemary Oil(1.0%), & Geranium Oil(1.0%). Other Ingredients: Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Beeswax & Castor Oil.

Note the other ingredients are the basics for . . . PATCH LUBE!

I'd post the link to the site where I got this info, but they are WAY higher in price than where we get ours (at a local wildlife sanctuary bookstore).

The stuff really does work, and it doesn't take the paint and colors off my r/c airplanes like DEET does. Nothing worse than a bug up your nose when you have a fast plane in the air and need both hands to control it.

 

[Bob J]

OK, looks like they add the citronella oil and maybe cedar oil to the regular Badger Balm for insect repellancy. The other ingredients do indeed look like PATCH LUBE ingredients :hmm:

By the way, citronella oil is probably better health-wise than DEET.