Bag Balm, Udder Cream the same?
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Sonya M. Doten
In a previous article, audr...@pipeline.com () says:
>Is bag balm and udder cream the same stuff?
No, bag balm is greasy, like vaseline, not creamy. It comes in a
green tin box. One of its key ingredients is lanolin which is very
moisturizing- provided you aren't allergic to it!
Elaine from Maine
products.
Elaine from Maine
who used to live on a farm
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Dave Garland
ap> Is bag balm and udder cream the same stuff?
Same purpose, but slightly different. "Bag Balm" (TM) is like stiff
vasoline. (I have seen another brand of similar stuff as well, at Fleet
Farm.) Udder cream (generic name) is a cream or lotion.
-Dave
kn...@agate.net
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One and the same!
Rosemarie
Morgans42
>In article <6rc61b$9va$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> audr...@pipeline.com wrote:
>> Is bag balm and udder cream the same stuff?
>
>One and the same!
You should know better if you're posting from agate.net. Bag Balm(tm) comes in
the green tin with the red flowers on it, and it is NOT a cream. It's a
nasty-smelling but very effective brown Vaseline-like ointment.
---Mari
kn...@agate.net
Sorry for shooting from the hip, but I based my post on information that I was
given when I was in Lamaze class 19 years ago and the instructor informed the
class that BagBalm was used by farmers for their cows udders. I try to be more
careful in the future.
Posting from agate.net does not endow me with knowledge of the inner workings
of a milk farm. I did not grow up here but transplanted and 20 years ago my
only concept of rural living was more imagination than fact.
---Rosemarie
Rabbit
kn...@agate.net wrote:
> In article <199808191633...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
> morg...@aol.com (Morgans42) wrote:
> > In article <6rdn89$ak0$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, kn...@agate.net writes:
> >
> > >In article <6rc61b$9va$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> > > audr...@pipeline.com wrote:
> > >> Is bag balm and udder cream the same stuff?
> > >
> > >One and the same!
> >
> > You should know better if you're posting from agate.net. Bag Balm(tm) comes in
> > the green tin with the red flowers on it, and it is NOT a cream. It's a
> > nasty-smelling but very effective brown Vaseline-like ointment.
> >
> > ---Mari
>
> Sorry for shooting from the hip, but I based my post on information that I was
> given when I was in Lamaze class 19 years ago and the instructor informed the
> class that BagBalm was used by farmers for their cows udders. I try to be more
> careful in the future.
>
Your instructor is correct. Bag Balm is a veterinary product used to reduce bunches
and sore teats on milk cattle. It isn't a cream, it is a pine-based jelly. It is
also very good for humans, but my guess is that the makers don't want to go to the
trouble and expense of testing for humans. So they sell it for cattle, and just
smile whenever someone buys an extra can for home use ...
Rabbit
Joan
hands would crack and bleed all winter until I put Bag Balm and cotton
glove on before I went to bed.
JOAN
MsSallyAnn
expensive. Both Target and K-Mart now have the same product, however, at about
half the price of the original Creamy Vasoline.
Dave Garland
R> Bag Balm is a veterinary product used to reduce bunches
R> and sore teats on milk cattle. It isn't a cream, it is a
R> pine-based jelly.
"Active ingredients: 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate 0.3% in a petrolatum,
lanolin base." It does smell a little like pine oil, perhaps it's scented
with it.
R> It is also very good for humans, but my guess is that the makers
R> don't want to go to the trouble and expense of testing for
R> humans.
There was an article about it in the New Yorker, must have been about 11
years ago. The president of the company was quoted as saying something
like "Of course we know a lot of people use it. We sent a letter to the
FDA asking what we needed to do, and they never answered. Maybe they
thought it was a joke." One of his favorite endorsements was that of a
soldier in Vietnam, who used it to lubricate his artillery piece.
-Dave
Rabbit
> soldier in Vietnam, who used it to lubricate his artillery piece.
>
> -Dave
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Rabbit
RFerrie
>
>Your instructor is correct. Bag Balm is a veterinary product used to reduce bunches
>and sore teats on milk cattle. It isn't a cream, it is a pine-based jelly. It is
>also very good for humans, but my guess is that the makers don't want to go to the
>trouble and expense of testing for humans. So they sell it for cattle, and just
>smile whenever someone buys an extra can for home use ...
>
>Rabbit
>
Sounds like what happened with Hooflex. To strengthen horse's hooves,
grooms apply this gross stuff, but it's so messy, it would always get
onto the groom's hands. Eventually, they noticed that they can
practically claw through concrete. Those in the know (who don't mind
the smell, and who will sleep wearing gardening gloves), now apply
Hooflex to their nails, and the result is *incredibly* strong nails.
Sally Hansen-type nailcare products cost $12 and only last a couple of
months (and I know some people who swear it's useless anyway). A tub
of Hooflex is around $18, and will last for *years*, if necessary.
Unfortunately, it's only available at tack stores.
And then there's ShowSheen for long, straight hair...
Renee
Warning: Keep out of reach of children. They're really, really annoying.
john
Barb
audr...@pipeline.com
found it to be very effective in softening my hands. It was my brother who
wanted more info. He had read in a mountain biking magazine that Bag Balm is
very good for saddle sores. Little did I know that I could benifit from using
it too.
-Audrey
Phyllis Harbst
Bag Balm is an ointment (translucent like vaseline, not creamy) used on
farm animals. Humans can use it also. It comes in a green tin.
Pharmacies usually carry it but you have to ask for it. Farm feed
supply stores carry it also. It is usually used for cracked, irritated
skin and to my knowledge promotes healing.
Udder Cream is in fact a cream (white and fluffy) it comes in a jar
with a holstein black and white pattern. Wal-Mart carries it. I have
found this to be nothing more than a moisturiser.