in my younger days .... key ingriedients in the cupboard were butter, blue bag vinegar germoline and codliver oil and concentrated orange juice and the hic cup medicine, also plaster on a roll with gauze and cotton wool with Dettol! to use diluted!
Witchazel urgghhhhh that used to pong, vic was and is still a good nose unblocker, ponds cream wasn't that for soft skin and getting make up off? surgical spirit a necessity to remove the glue that held the plasters on on some packets it said not water proof, but that was obviously the cloth and gauzy bit no amount off soap and washing got the glue off.. add SS and off in a flash...........................
Surgical Spirit used to be used for hardening the skin on your feet before a long walk, or as in my Uncles case a spell in the Army.
The only ‘old wives’ remedy I used to try when I was younger was dock leaves on nettle stings. It never worked - I stopped bothering from about 10 years old!!!
2 Leaves one you screw up in your hand and rub all over the sting, the second one you spit on and rub on next .... I am pretty resistant to them! Actually used them to relieve a elbow pain by whisking up and down my arm! nice pimply lumps but after about 20 applications my 2arthritic upper arm has been fine for about 5 years...........
