Oh my goodness, it’s so much better than petroleum jelly (and it won’t degrade latex/rubber). Put it anywhere, you can even eat it, it’s safe for nursing babies.

Other than nipples, it has thousands of uses. I use it under my nose where my CPAP machine rubs me raw. Oh, and it’s a great moustache wax too!

Just try it. I costs a bit more than PJ, but it’s like owning the best quality product of it’s type. Nobody can buy anything better.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    For anyone curious about the ethical discussion folks are having

    Crude lanolin constitutes about 5–25% of the weight of freshly shorn wool. The wool from one Merino sheep will produce about 250–300 ml of recoverable wool grease. Lanolin is extracted by washing the wool in hot water with a special wool scouring detergent to remove dirt, wool grease (crude lanolin), suint (sweat salts), and anything else stuck to the wool. The wool grease is continuously removed during this washing process by centrifuge separators, which concentrate it into a waxlike substance melting at approximately 38 °C (100 °F).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanolin?wprov=sfla1

    It seems like lanolin is typically extracted from the shorn wool, so I assume the comments about ethics are with respect to harvesting that wool in the first place, so if you’re interested in learning more, that’s where you’d want to research. I’m not intending to debate whether it is or isn’t ethical (I know next to nothing about the wool industry), I just had no idea how lanolin might be obtained from a sheep, so I looked it up and figured I’d share since it’s relevant to some of the conversation here