You mentioned that old scar/stitch line is weeping a bit. Just a suggestion but if it persists a drawing salve might help dry it up by pulling out any foreign junk underneath. Rite Aid has a product called Ichthammol that is a “black salve” that works pretty good, If one has a slow healing scab that might even be a bit sore the stuff will help all around. Might help. Won’t harm. It’s not as powerful as my Gramma’s home made salve but it stinks the same. She used hers all her life on a recurring snake bite that festered occasionally. The active ingredient in that stuff was Oil of Ichthycanth which doesn’t seem to be around anymore-—worked too good, I guess.
Gramma made her last batch in 1966, a few months before she died, and the family has kept her Mason Jar with that batch. The stuff seems to be indestructible and I use it for weird cuts, scratches, scabs, that seem to need a bit of help drying up. Wots weird is that your basic Quack doesn’t seem to know about drawing salves. They’d rather give you a shot of something expensive.
Neat thing about Gramma’s Mason jar is that it dates to about 1920. It’s gotten a bit valuable whether it has salve in it or not.
That is a very interesting story that last jar was done when I was a kid watching Lost in Space on a new CoLoR Tee Vee, ha ha.
If I can find a drawing salve I will certainly try it.
Really not much worried about this old scar tissue and I also have oily facial skin and almost Zero wrinkles — so this weeping/ scabby thing is probably no biggie but I am going treat it with some bigger gunns just in case.
I see its a best buy if you get the “marketed for animals” product. Some brands are ridiculously expensive for tiney amounts!
Will def try this, it is on Amazon too. Thanks OWB
My mother always kept a tube of Ichthammol in the medicine cabinet. She told me it was pine tar.
I remember the tube looking ancient, must have been because so little of the salve was needed at a time.
A few years back, I ordered it from Amazon (link below). It looked the same but didn’t seem to work as well as I had remembered.