10 Creative Ways to Use Chap Stick Around the House

Here are 10 creative ways to use Chap Stick around the house for personal use. Chap Stick has been around since the early 1880s, when a doctor by the name of C. D. Fleet came up with the idea of selling a lip balm wrapped in foil, which he called Chap Stick.

Unfortunately, the doctor didn't sell the Chap Stick like he hoped to, so he sold the all the rights to his product to John Morton for $5 dollars. It was Morton and his wife who made Chap Stick popular, by re-molding it and re-packaging it and putting the stick in a container that could be shipped.

Morton Manufacturing Corporation held on to Chap Stick until 1963, when it was then purchased by A. H. Robins Company, who manufactured 4 different flavors of Chap Stick. But in 1989, Chap Stick, along with A. H. Robins Company, was purchased by American Home Products Corporation.

Use Chap Stick When Dyeing Your Hair
If you don't want the skin along you hair line to be dyed when you color your hair, just take your Chap Stick and run a line of it on the skin around your hair line.

Use To Stop Bleeding
If you should happen to receive a minor cut or nick , after washing the cut and applying an antiseptic, run a line of Chap Stick over it. The petroleum, lanolin and wax in it acts like a band-aid and coats the cut to stop the bleeding.

Use On Window Casters
If you have trouble opening and closing your windows or drawers because of the casters, then use the Chap Stick to lubricate them, and they will open and close smoothly.

Use On Car Batteries
If you rub Chap Stick on your car battery terminal when they are clean, you will prevent corrosion from forming on them and causing trouble later.

Remove Your Ring
Okay, if you happen to be where you don't have access to soap and water to remove a ring that is stuck on your finger, just apply Chap Stick to your finger and the stuck ring will come off easily.

Shine Your Shoes
Well, you got a pair of leather shoes that need shining? Use your Chap Stick to apply a coat over the shoes, then you can use a soft cloth to buff them to a bright shine.

Use On You Mustache
You've heard of the term waxed mustached? Well here you go! If you put just a little Chap Stick on the very ends of your mustache, they will stay together to give you a groomed look. You can also use this method on your eyebrows to keep the hairs neat and in place.

Use On A Zipper
Your zippers are getting harder to open and close? Then rub them with Chap Stick and they will open and close a lot smoothly.

Use On Nails
If you want your nails and screws to go into wood a lot easier, try rubbing them with Chap Stick.

Use As A Moisturizer
This is especially good in the winter time when your skin is chapped, dry and wind burned from
skiing. Just rub Chap Stick over the expose portion of your skin to protect it.

Chap Stick has come a long way since the early 1880s. There are a lot of flavors to choose from and a lot of ways you can purchase it. For instance, you can now choose from, orange, strawberry, mint, cherry and regular flavor. You can also purchase it Medicated, as a Lip Moisturizer SPF 15 with Vitamin E and Aloe, as Ultra SPF 30 and as Petroleum Jelly Plus.

This completes the article on 10 Creative Ways To Use Chap Stick Around The House, and I hope it provided you with information you can use.