I carry a small jar of Vaseline® Petroleum Jelly which is a mixture of mineral oils, paraffin and microcrystalline waxes. As some of you know Vaseline® has more uses that WD40. After cleaning the wound, use a small amount to coat the wound then cover the area. This keeps out and lets out the bad stuff also to keep the wound moist.

Vaseline® and magnesium stick is my primary fire starter rather than water proof matches. A 2x2 cotton patch saturated will burn 6 to 10 minutes.

magnesium

C4 and a bick liter and C-rats. LMAO

DITTO the Crew!

Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide when mixed with cobolt.

potasium permanganate and glycerin when mixed together in SMALL amounts is a fire waiting to happen that will flame rain or shine but keep both ingredients in separate compartments of your pack . Or you will experience Zippo itch like never before .

I make a petroleum jelly / sawdust mix. it works pretty well, and stays lit for a while - long enough to light damp wood. I keep it in a small screw top container (the gatoraide powder containers). just scoop out what you need.

I'm on board with BioGuy. I found out quite by accident that cotton balls go up in a hurry!

cotton balls, and is this the REAL Patrick Flanagan?

woodj35 / SD_...not to worry, maybe. I know 3 Irish Patrick Flanagans and one is a Priest!

Put a bunch of cotton balls smothered with Vaseline in a altoids tin along with a small candle and some water proof matches.

Hands down...Alchohol swabs like the ones your Dr. uses. They start VERY easily and burn for 1-minute, 40-seconds. Just peel back the package and start with a match or a striker of some kind. You can use them to start another fire starter like Vaseline and cotton balls, which don't start as easily. If you've got some great kindling the Alchohol Swabs work fine all alone. Their very cheap and very compact. They are not messy like the vaseline and cotton balls, which work very well. Be sure to replace them every year though!

When it's in season I like to use cattail fluff from the head of a cattail. It flares up rather quickly so it is good to have the bigger pieces nearby. And if you don't get it lit the first time just stir up the fluff until there is some fresh stuff and start again.

Tampons. Seriously, they compact those things pretty hard, so lots of surface area if you pull them apart. I tend to keep char cloth, tampons and magnesium along with a windproof lighter or matches with me.