Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - Sawbones: Chapped Lips

Episode Date: December 16, 2016

Chapped lips are a minor annoyance, but that didn't stop old-timey people from smushing together TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF BRAINS to rub on them. Join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a history of cheilitis. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Saw bones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion. It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil? We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth. You're worth it. that weird growth. You're worth it. Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were sawed through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around. Some medicines, some medicines that escalate my cop for the mouth. Wow. Hello everybody and welcome to Saul Bones, Metal Tour of Miscite of the Medicine.

I'm your co-host Justin T. McElroy. And I'm Sydney S. McElroy. Very eye-to-face. Formerly A. Thought that would be more distinguished. You tried it last week with our middle names. Full middle name sounds hoity toity, sounds hoity-toity. It sounds hoity-toity.

Middle initials like, yeah, I got one. Those are what my sister would call bougie. Bougie? bougie. I think that's a reference to the bourgeois. The bourgeoisie. Yes. So yeah, this is solbons and I'm pretty excited this week

because I feel like already probably I'm the MVP. Of solbbones this week? Yes. Why, I know why you're saying this, but why don't you explain why you think you're the MVP? You know normally it's sort of split, sort of 60, 40. 60, 40, huh? You're doing 40%, which is just the research.

Oh, I'm doing, oh. And I'm doing 60% because I'm talking on the show, coming up with like insights and editing and posting it. So it's like a 60 40 split. Yeah. This week is almost more like 70 30 or maybe 35 25 because I also came up with the idea for the show this week. Right. And honestly, my shoulders are getting sore. Do you know why? From holding the show up. Yeah, from carrying carrying it, carrying the show. So you think you think you did that much of the work. I just feel like the kind of envy three quarters about conservatively. You're definitely doing your part. You're pitching in for sure. Uh huh. Just doing all the research

and that's in the topic that you asked me to research for you. Yeah, so that was almost 50, 50 split on the research because it was my idea and you just kind of ran it in the end zone. I kind of got it into the 20 yard line. You just kind of ran it in. And do you want to just want to do the whole show? I don't rather know.

Like I could just sit back and watch. I have a cold sore actually. So I'm in my lips are very chapped and I can't, I don't want to talk the whole time. Right, that was just in Segway into Chapped Alips this week. Pretend I just said the Chapped Alips part because that makes a better Segway.

My lips are very chapped. You know, that's why I saw this on, there's this great YouTube show about movies called Moves with Mikey. And he was saying, he didn't episode about dark night returns yesterday and he not dark night returns the dark night and he said that that's That's why Heath Ledger licks his lips so much as movie because he annunciates

Every word like completely clearly and it just the only way that you can make that happen without your lips Like falling apart is just licking them constantly and that's why he's licking his lips so much because he's enunciating so clearly. Well, you know, the problem with that is that licking your lips a lot is one cause of chat lips. That's that I actually kind of figured that that doesn't it's part of me. So let's do the let's do the thank yous for suggesting the episode. You do those usually. Right. Thank you, Justin. For for suggesting that we talk you do those usually. Right, thank you, Justin. For. For suggesting that we talk about CHAPLips.

Very selfishly because your lips are chapped and you just wanted to know about other things that you could put on your lips. On your lips, I don't wanna say CHAPSIT because that's a brand name. And that assumes that we all use that brand of lip balm. I actually can't, I don't, here's the thing, I do get chapped lips.

I can't bring myself to live the chapstick or lip balm lifestyle. I can't have a lifestyle where I have it. Like I, you just literally, as you were saying that you reached over, where to come from. Just at random place, as I'm saying. On your desk next to where your computer is every day

and you picked up a tube of lip balm and applied it a while we were talking. I scattered around like Johnny Amplese and just hope that when my lips are chapped, I'll find a tube with it. Is this only with nail clippers? Nobody has a place for nail clippers, you know what I mean? They're just like, I hope there's something here.

No, you do everywhere. Yeah, I have a minute. Well, and mainly everywhere our child can get to. Those are the main places you put nail clippers. So I keep lip balm on me at all times. At all times until you put your pants in the washer machine. And I put your lip balm through every single time. Thank you, Justin.

This is the my pleasure. This is also... My pleasure. This is also the season for chapped lips because... It's not the reason I had the idea that there's a lot of creativity that went into it as well. Because your lips have been really chapped. Because the air is very dry. It's cold out and the air is dry. So that is one cause of key lightest or...

For key lightest. ...est inflammation of the lips or chapped lips. And you can have different kinds of key lightest based on what that's caused by because you know what most of us are talking about are just when you're just like your your hands can get chapped, your skin can get chapped, not just your lips from being out in cold dry weather. Long riding, long ride across the prairie. Exactly. Chapped hands from that. You get a lot of that, honey. Not recently. I'm trying to stay. They gave me a desk job. They don't allow the prairie anymore. I got to stay back and just like...

You get getting cholera out on the Oregon trail. So they get a desk job. Now I'm just a guy. I'm the guy that they stop with before they go out. The Oregon trail, like, you're gonna need more meal. Take more oats, trust me on this lip. Because there are lots of horses. On the organ trail, yeah. Just the ones you take with you, right? Yeah, but like you need us X amount of oats for them. Well, yeah.

Okay. That's all you got for people? Take more oats? No, they're not at your job. They're not for everything else. They didn't have enough oats, so I was trying to move on. You can also get it, like I mentioned,

from looking your lips too much, from biting your lips too much, from dehydration. Your lips can get chapped just if you get really dried out. Like you got a really terrible GI bug or hangover or something like that, you get chapped lips. Now looking your lips is a vicious cycle too?

Yes, it is. Yeah, I don't recommend that. Don't keep clipped. Go get some lip balm. And then there are certain vitamin deficiencies that can cause specific kinds of key lightest, like just at the angles of your mouth, like at the corners of your mouth and those kind of things. But that's not really, we're really just focusing more on like the day-to-day

chapter lips that, you know, you have, I don't have, because I always carry something with me, but I would have if I wasn't so well prepared. Right. Now, we have been dealing with chapter lips as long as we've had lips. So.

So hundreds upon hundreds of years? Yes, thousands even. So they're just, basically this show are all of the weird, this is all of the weird stuff that people have decided they wanted to not just put on their face, but on their lips, which are very close to their, you know, mouths, which is like a portal to the inside. So it's like a big commitment. Yeah.

And so I keep that in mind. When we go back to some mentions from ancient Indian medical texts, one specific that's repeated is milk mixed with the powdered rind of this bell fruit, which is, it's a certain kind of fruit, sort of like a quince almost. Okay. It's actually kind of weird because the leaves of this fruit, which is, it's a certain kind of fruit, sort of like a quince almost. Okay. And it's actually kind of weird because the leaves of this fruit, there's a substance

in that that has been used in diet pills in the past. Oh, weird. And it's been banned because it's dangerous. But the fruit, when the rind was powdered, mixed with milk, and then you put that on your lips and you could have soft lips, and I have no reason to think that's dangerous. In Egypt, there's some evidence that maybe they used beeswax or honey for this. The fact of it seems like.

Right, which, I mean, beeswax is a very common, there are many brands today marketed. Parts of bees right here. Yes, that we're holding marketed specifically because they contain beeswax. And we've talked before about all of the magical helium properties that people attribute to bees and honey and all bee products. I'll be be excrement and whatnot.

There are a lot of weird old recipes from like early like British medicine, like early English medicine that that I found. And they kind of break them down. Like there are some for just lips, there are some for lips and hands. So it's important to know, I guess, which ones you don't want to put something on your hands that's only made for your lips. Right, of course. One is that you can take the... So, Justin, you had to enlighten me on this. What is gum for matri? Sap, tried sap.

Thank you. I don't know if everybody knows that. So you need to mix a couple different kinds of gum, Arabic gum and Traga can't gum. And you take that with the oil of violets. And you'll notice in a lot of these recipes that they've already started to think about, like color and smell, and the fact that like,

while this is definitely treating something that is uncomfortable, it's also somewhat cosmetic. I mean, I am someone who I have not used lipstick and I could not tell you how many years I only use lip balm. So I tend to gravitate towards the ones that like smell nice or make my lips shiny. Yeah. And so I don't like those because sometimes you leave those around and I grab that's the lip on my reach. I end up with a shimmer. Yes, you do.

You frequently have a lip shimmer on. I don't know that. Or a lip gloss. Yeah, I don't need that. I just want the chapping. The one you're using now is tinted. Some of them. Really? Yeah. Here, I'm switching back to good old chapstick. that I just want the chapping. The one you're using now is tinted. So of a really?

Yeah. Here, I'm switching back to good old chapstick. I'm gonna put that on top of the tinted and I probably won't do anything. You can use the tinted ones if you want. There's no judgment here. It's not like I care. I just want to make sure it's a good color for me

that it's the right. Like I want it to be a choice. I just don't want, like, I want to make the decision to have a nice shimmer. Right. I have a variety of shimmers and frosts and glosses and I don't know. Some little ancient magics you're dealing with. No, just various kinds of, anyway.

You're welcome to them. Okay, thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Now, here's a stranger concoction. This recipe calls for the precipitate from the bottom of a vat of wine. Okay, wine livens. Yeah. bitter drinks.

Oh. bitter drinks. Which I'm not familiar with that, but I do know what the precipitate from a bottom of like when we've made beer, like a vat of beer is. It's nasty. So I'm assuming it's like that, but with grapes. I mean, that's a little better

because it's not like yeast and crap. I guess. Oh no. That's sort of like what accumulated one time, I tried to make wine in my closet in college. I remember this wonderful experiment. And it said that it needed something breathable on top. Some sort of like, I forget, maybe cheesecloth or so.

I don't remember what you're supposed to put on the top of the bottle. Anyway, what we used was a condom, because that seemed to make sense to us, although not breathable. It's like by definition. Not breathable. I don't know why we thought that was,

I don't know why we thought that was a good idea. But anyway, what collected on the inside of the condom as it expanded and then eventually burst was probably what they're talking about. For your lit, man, I think they'll just be chopped. Thank you very much, thank you. You mix that with raucin and then some grease from either a hen or a duck, your pick,

and some honey for flavor. I guess. Like. And so those are just for lips. Now, if you're interested in something that will work both on your lips, as well as what has been called, what is called, the head of women's breasts, the head of women's breasts. The heads of women's breasts.

Now, I would probably just call those the nipples. Yeah, there's a term for that. Right, but I guess old English dudes like to call them, it's very proper, the heads of women's breasts. Is that the head? I don't, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, here's some things that if you're so inclined,

you could put on your lips or your boobs. Take the brain of a goose. Okay. And the brain of a heart. That didn't make sense. H-A-R-T, heart. Which of course is. As everybody knows,

is an adult male deer. Yeah. So take the brains of a goose and the brains of a deer and mix those together. An adult male deer. You can just use some teenage woman deer. No, an adult, yes, and you mix those together and then just put that on your lips or your nipples.

Either way, this is fine. With nothing else, there is nothing else in this recipe. That's just it two kinds of brains. Just two kinds of brains mixed up and then put them on your boobs or mouth. This is a new, this is a new low, low high. I don't know, either way for our show, I have never had a recipe for anything that just involved brains or two brains or two brains. Yeah, there's like, I don't know why they thought one, this one's pretty good that I'm trying, but like, what if we had two brains?

And let's make it more difficult from different animals. Different animals. Well, honestly, Sydney, I love you. I don't think harvesting two brains from the same animal was an option, so they might as well. Different species.

Yeah. Yeah, either way. This maybe is a little less gruesome. So take some silver, some mer, some powdered ginger. You grind all that up, you mix that with wax and honey and olive oil. And then right before you apply, you've got to like spit and coat your lips really well with all

that spit and then put that on there. Now come on. That's cheating. Just everything, just whatever. Ugh. And also your own spit. How chap were these people's lips? And this is awesome.

These just sound like people looked around and went, uh, ginger, silver, honey. Alchemists was having a clearance sale just trying to get all it out You could also try another if you if you do want to tent to your lips You could try some powder black iris some ammonium chloride and some ink Yeah, and also on your boobs These are still these are again nipple recipes That one seems a little more suspicious with the boobs, I don't know.

And let me say that the idea of chapp nipples, specifically, we tend to talk about people who breastfeed. That's what kind of their referencing with these recipes is that as someone who has breastfed your nipples can get chapped. And usually these days, we just use like lannolin for that. Lannolin. Yeah, and that's a very good soothing appointment to apply. But you know, anybody's nipples could get chapped, I guess.

Sure. I used to have an Anaheim's Ducks jersey when I was a teenager that would chat my nipples something fierce. And like a logo patch on it. It would just know it's a savage. Jersey's a bad for nipples. They're rough.

I think runners have that problem a lot, don't they? People who run get chapped nipples a lot. Runners like myself get chapped nipples. They're rough. I think runners get it. Have that problem a lot. Don't they? Yeah, you run get chapnipers like myself get chap nipples from time to time, right? Right Now if you're concerned about your hands because if you are someone as like Justin who has crossed the plains in your caravan You get chapped hands. Yeah, sure sure on the out of the planes, right? So here's a recipe you can use on your lips or your hands. So take 12 ounces of either calves grease,

like grease from a calf, or fresh deer suet. Which is? Do you remember suet is the fat from around the kidneys of various animals? Pretty sure it's full, it's like to use that in cooking. Yes, still to this day, according to the Great British Bake Off. Yeah. Yeah.

And you mix either of those with six ounces of margarine. And then you're going to make it into like little balls, sort of like you're making cookies, I guess. That's fine. That's how I'm imagining. You know, imagining like a cookie sheet in your wax paper and you have little balls of calves grease or deer suet mixed with margarine, then you're going to sprinkle it with white wine, then you're going to put them in some sort of like cool closed container, like in a closet or

cupboard, you know, like a holiday pudding. Like a pudding, yeah. For 24 hours, then you're going to take them out, you're going to put them in water and then strain them. Okay. You put water and then strain them. Okay. So you put water in and then you take it back. Yeah, hey, you know, that's a step up, probably skip it home, honestly. Sprinkle with some more wine. And then once they dry, you've got a really good balm for either your lips or your hands.

Now, if you want to add something with some scent, so something that'll make it smell a little nicer, a little more attractive, you can take the musk of a civet and add that for fragrance. If you really, you really need it to smell. And this, by the way, was a common thing used like as a stabilizer and fragrance element and like perfumes and such. It, it from the perineal gland, the perineal gland of a,

sorry, perineal gland of a civet or any other animal, the musk of, you know, an animal. Mm-hmm. It's pretty, I looked at a picture of a civet. It is, that is a fierce looking animal right there. I think I would not need to get up in his glands. Thank you very much. You don't want to go try to take a musk from it.

No, no, thank you. Either way, you don't need it because you've already gone through all that other work. You just use it the way it is, but if you want some scent. It's really a muskiesand. In 2000, the year 2000, Sivit sold for about $500 per kilogram. Wow, you mean the musk? Yes, indeed. Yeah, my understanding is that to the state, it still uses like a stabilizer in fragrance.

It's odor is strong, even putrid as a pure substance, but once diluted, it is pleasantly and sweetly aromatic. Well, there you go. There you go. There you go, I'd say there are cheaper ways to make things smell good. Sivit is the animal. Right.

And also what they call them the musk. Ah, I didn't realize that. Well, you can take the musk from other animals, I suppose. If you get really desperate, but it's honestly a little ghost. There are lots of things that smell good that don't involve squeezing animal glands. I would recommend those.

Yeah, I'd go with those first. That you can also use mucilage from basil, which I guess is just sort of like an oily substance that can come from like the leaves. That sounds disgusting. That sounds really brutal. That sounds really brutal. Could I have some mucilage? Yeah. Plant should be able to make that.

The outer skin of an onion was commonly recommended. Mixed some chicken fat and parsley. Gross. Gross. Now, and you could use that. Take, cook some potatoes, boil some potatoes, and then get the potatoes out, and then water that you used to boil the potatoes. You can put on your lips for your hands. That's nonsense.

So my lips are chapped. So I'm going to go make some potatoes or that's absolutely untenable. The other option is, oh, I see you just made some potatoes. Do you mind if I dunked my mouth in the water or can I get some of that water to put on my lips? Like... Right. Well, I mean, my first question would be, can I have some potatoes and then I would ask

for the water probably because Cause potatoes are delicious. What have they done but out, Sydney? They're not gonna stop them. Hey, whoa. You need to warn people ahead of time. Please don't dump potato water. I have, I have a use for that. I have chaplain.

Oh, don't, you're gonna throw it on that good potato water? I got help with that to use. You're gonna throw that out. Put it in a bucket. I'll take it out. Put it in the bucket. I'll take it out. You see in your pantry,

I hope you just have like stacks of stacks of buckets of potato one. That's the first thing that goes on my quarters episode. Dad, dad. Dad, what are these? What are these bags? That's my good potato water. Can't throw that out, well if your lips get chopped. You're in a good rhythm.

Is that what you recommended on the organ trail? You need more oats. More oats, 10% of all water. Several large of potato. A fancy pants daughter just can't keep in the house. So more like a salad on this. Take this potato water for traps. Chapin.

In addition, you could also mix brand and water. I can't imagine that's very effective. Plenty, our buddy Plenty, the elder. He's like his own theme song. Plenty, the elder. He's like his own theme song. Plenty, the elder, had his own recipe. Not many. You know, usually Plenty has so many. Yeah, that he made up.

No, he just has a couple. One is pretty simple egg whites. He recommends egg whites. You can do that. And then the other one's a little more involved. So you can take some, again, we're back with the suet. So some goat suet. Makes it with some

gif. Mm hmm. The gif what is gif? Well you look that up so you can tell me about it. Who was it? Man I really did carry a heavy load this upside huh? Yeah well all timing people sometimes call things weird names. It's an ancient term for phenylflower. Yes. Yes that is what you told me. Yes. So for phenylflower. Yes, yes, that is what you told me. Yes. So some phenylflower, some goat, so it's some sulfur, some iris, some goose grease. Ooh.

The marrow from a stag. Wow, are you making like a potion to kill which? No, this is just for a... Are you gonna like seal up the lip? I'm gonna seal up the lip. This is like, this is just for a... I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip.

I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. I get a lot of seal up for your lip. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life.

This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life.

This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to life. This sounds like the stuff that you'd use to bring Dracula back to. I love this alternative. Like, you could use egg whites. I don't know. What else you got? Oh, you know, go to it, get sulfur, iris, goo, scoosh, grease, tags, marrow, resin, and lime. Yeah, you could use egg whites, or you could get like a thief and a mage and a cleric and go on like a quest across the entire land to heal your job lips.

And get some bone marrow from a stag. Why not? Um, uh, we, uh, I want to hear about the Americas. The Americas having a good stuff? Uh, I got some for you, Justin, but first one, you follow me to the billing department. Let's go. Uh, Sid, you were going to tell me a little bit about the early Americas and what they were using for their chaplips. Now, probably the one that if you've heard of like weird past treatments for chaplips, the one that is most popular would be earwax.

And we actually, So convenient. Right. We actually, I think talked about it on our ear wax episode. It's gross, but that's like so. That would be like such a great closed system for the body like, Oh, chopstick. Yeah, I got it right here. Well, I mean, it makes kind of, it does make sense because it's supposed to help moisturize, keep, you know, keep lubricated the inside of your ear to keep the

insides of your ear from drying out. So it is in a way. I mean, yeah, but you also shouldn't be like taking it out to put it somewhere else. No, but if it comes out, like it's right there, if you reach up and touch your ear and there's a big gob of ear wax right there. That's gross.

And you wanna put it on your lips or hands. Be very careful about the next thing you say. I don't have a problem with that is all I'm saying. Okay, that's fine. It's not the, it's not the stirring endorsement. I don't have a problem with that is all I'm saying. Okay, that's fine. It's not the stirring endorsement I was afraid of. No, I'm not going to do it, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong. Okay.

I'm just saying it makes sense. If you don't wanna do that and most people don't, you could try leak juice and cream. That was an early American treatment for chapelips. You could try some Epsom salts and water. We've talked about Epsom salts are just, that's everybody's bag for everything. Yeah.

So, and this would probably have been used more for like chapskin than chaps lips. I mean, you could certainly do that, but we think more of Epsom salts being used to soak in, and I don't know how you soak your lips. So there are lips, yeah, I don't know. I'll just let that back. You put a little bowl of it and then just kind of, stick your face down in it for a while. to soak in. And I don't know how you soak your lips. So there are lips, yeah, I don't know. I was thinking about that. I was thinking about that.

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to the idea that vinegar can be used for anything. So sure, cider vinegar. Now this makes sense, Vaseline and oatmeal. Cause there's Vaseline in there. Yeah, I mean, like you, you could say like Vaseline and fruit loops. It's like, yeah, pretty good. Like, no, not really. Well, no, no, because I mean, are you, do you mean like whole fruit loops?

Crushed to a fine fruity powder. Right. Still bad. Not great, but it's got Vaseline in it, you just said. Yeah, but oatmeal is not, I mean, I'm assuming like cooked oatmeal. Oh, was that? Like you cook some oatmeal, you mix it with some Vaseline, that's not going to hurt anything. If you're powdering fruit loops, that, I mean, they're better ways to exfoliate.

Yeah. Now, a common one was urine, especially urine from a male child. I don't know why. Boy, child is better, but either way urine. And I guess if you're talking about like baby urine, it's just easier to obtain maybe. I guess, yeah. It's like you're supposed to be cleaning up baby urine anyway.

Well, I'm really supposed to be asking your adult buddies for pee. Well, it's right there in the diaper too. You can just blot it on your face. Just squeeze it out. Just squeeze it out. Just squeeze it out. No, okay. No, don't wait.

I asked him a good boy pee. That's my good boy, put the boy pee next to the stay-a-wire. I'm saving it. That's for real, chaps lips. That's what I got a real problem. So here's a note on urine. Here's a sidebar. Here's a sidebar on urine. Here's a sidebar. It's a sidebar. It's a sidebar on urine.

Urine contains urea. Urea is the main nitrogen-containing compound that results from the breakdown of protein in the human body. Okay. Now, if any of you have experienced various skin conditions, especially ones associated with dry skin. As I'm saying, Eurea, this may be ringing a bell because your dermatologist or doctor, family doctor, whoever may have prescribed to you a cream that contains Eurea.

Eurea is the main component in a lot of different moisturizing creams and lotions that you can buy both over the counter and that are still prescribed two day for dry skin conditions. You heard her hair first folks, Dr. Sidney McRoy loves boy pea for a chap lives and it's the only thing she would have meant stop blowing your money on chapstick. Just get yourself some boy pea. I'm just saying that especially for chap hands, boy pea is the way to go. Washing your hands in peak kind of made sense. I don't think we have creams for that now. Why would you use pee?

But- Because the pee is free. I can't argue with that. Yeah, that's right. What else did- You can also use cream, lard, butter, you know, this all makes sense, you know, just oily, oily substances protect your, you know, lips mean, this all makes sense. Just oily substances, protect your lips from the wind

and the cold. Specifically, you wanna use butter from grass-fed cows in the month of May. That's the best stuff. That's the best stuff. You can use mutton, tallow, buffalo, tallow, possum fat. Those were all popular, depending on where you are

and I guess what dead animals you had available. You can wash your hands in the first snow of the season. Just like, just as long as we don't get chapped in like June, like that's, so there's one, okay, so just so clear, there's one day of the year you can cure your chapskin. That's it. Okay, If it's a second snow Can you imagine if that was snow somebody's already peed in that would be the best the bad like the best like he in this fresh nose So I can wash my hands in it Or you could an old an old kind of folklore treatment was you could kiss the middle bar of a five rail fence

Sure if you want. For your chap lips. For your chap lips, you go for it. Today, there are still a lot of home remedies that you'll find for chapped skin. Some that we've already talked about, honey is a big one. I found it mixed with rose water, it was more popular. Green tea bags, tea bags are something you see a lot of.

And I think we talked about this on the tea episode that tea bags in general are recommended for all kinds of skin conditions. Good good, Tannins. Lemon juice is recommended, although. I've seen citrus associated with higher rates of chaff lips. So I don't know that I'll be that quick to use lemon juice for that reason.

Milk cream, aloe, of course, cucumber, coconut oil, mango butter, sugar and olive oil, there's that sugar again. And that's all well and good. There are a variety of lip balms available to her. You could just buy them. I always tell people that if something smells really good, or along the same line, my daughter has several that have sparkles in them, like glitter.

And that's probably not a good idea. If something smells really strong of fragrance, sometimes that can actually be more drying in the long run. That's worse with like lotions and body washes, but I'd still, if you have really chopped lips, I'd stay away from really heavily scented things, just go with, and like the tinted things

and the sparkly things, I would just go with good old-fashioned, moisturizing lip balm, of course, there are a variety of brands and kinds and I don't know, whatever you prefer. But none of it's really just so I can understand. None of it's really treating it in terms of this isn't necessarily like a,

this is purely an external, it's like a physical condition in the way I get to know myself. Well, yes, what I'm mainly talking about. Now, as I mentioned in the beginning, there are some certain like metabolic and like vitamin deficiencies in other conditions that can be associated with having dry skin. It can be a medication side effect.

There are medical conditions that also can cause dry skin that also then will lead you to have more chapped lips. I'm not really focusing on those though because how do you treat them while you treat the medical condition? Right. But as just the physical problem of having chapped lips, I guess you are. I guess you are very moisturizing.

Keeping yourself from looking them, which would exacerbate it right? Yes, I would prefer you not lick them just, you know, get some, unless you're just, I don't know, like, like if I was trying to like say, hey, Justin, you know, like, go on. Hey, I don't know. Hey, hey, hey, there, guy. Oh, like a seduction. Like a seduction. Oh, that was seduction.

Was that a seductive? Whoa. Well, folks, that's gonna do for us this week on solpones. And I guess for our marriage, too, is over. It's been 10 years about a practice. Okay. Thank you so much to the Taxpayers for Letnist Users on Medicines is the Intro and Outro of our program.

Thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on their network. A lot of great shows there for you to listen to. So go check them all out. And we have any other pressing business to discuss it? I don't think so. Oh, I've mentioned this a little while. I think there are probably still cabins. We're going on the Jonathan Colton cruise in March at some point in 2017. We'll be there with the 10 great people and it's going to be so much fun and go to jokokrues.com We're gonna do a live sawbounds and you can hold Charlie for us because we can't dig around the site.

Well, we'll talk. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that. That's gonna do it for us folks until next week. My name is Justin McRoy. I'm Sydney McRoy. And as always, don't drill a hole in your head. Head. Covey and Culture, Artistone.

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