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Big AL
a month ago

Do they still make that stuff?

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Rebekah Sandell
Raleigh, NC 路 3 months ago

and we kept extra long q-tips so that when we got a sore throat mom would 'paint' our throat with it.

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Joey White
Brooklyn, NY 路 3 months ago

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Kia Johnson
Queens, NY 路 3 months ago

馃槀 I can still feel it to this day 馃槼

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David
Beech Mountain, NC 路 a month ago

How true, It鈥檚 merely a flesh wound.

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Georgia_Girl
Augusta, GA 路 a month ago

Lawd, I remember the days you scrape your knee,and granny put it on it burn so bad you try to wipe it off..馃槅

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Michelle Kennedy
Hulbert, OK 路 a month ago

I hated that so much! It burned worse than alcohol. I don鈥檛 know what was in it but it had to be nasty. My grandmother. First response to anything. Thanks for the memories! 馃挄

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Shirley Johnson
Woodstown, NJ 路 a month ago

I remember this stuff 馃槃馃槀馃槀

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Catcher Freeman Jr.
Paradise Valley, AZ 路 3 months ago

Used to feel left damn fire on me..

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To-Tell-The-Truth
Valdosta, GA 路 a month ago

Don鈥檛 forget the Dr. John medication afterwards.

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birdy
Hastings, MN 路 a month ago

Yep! It only stung for a second 馃槃馃槃馃槃

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jarhead
Livonia, MI 路 a month ago

Yep stung like hell

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Mrs Mushroom
Colorado Springs, CO 路 a month ago

My grandmother swore by this stuff. Fixed every ailment

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Debbie Zatterberg
Ocean Park, WA 路 a month ago

Oh yes, and Iodine.

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old Skool
Detroit, MI 路 3 months ago

I remember that oh so well!!! And that stuff burns really, really, bad!!! 馃敟馃敟馃敟馃敟馃が馃が馃が馃が

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karen hater
Grant Park, IL 路 a month ago

Ooh i remember it well ! Try a lil iodine too

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Big O
Boston, MA 路 a month ago

witch hazel was another homedic

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ListenHere Buddy
Moreno Valley, CA 路 a month ago

Oh the smell!! I still smell it on my cut fingers, after 65 years!!!!!

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Gil Hallidy
Rosendale, NY 路 a month ago

It was like sticking a lit match into the wound 馃槹

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karen coats
Buckeye, AZ 路 a month ago

yeppers

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Sunflower
Cincinnati, OH 路 3 months ago

馃敟

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Your Mom
Minneapolis, MN 路 3 months ago

馃槀馃槀馃槀 Honey, that was far before the 1970鈥檚

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Julian Tapley
Aurora, IL 路 a month ago

Yup! Remember well. I broke my arm once, and my Mom put it on, on the way to the hospital.

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T
3 months ago

Oh god, the burn 馃槅

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Teresa Shipley
Lakewood, CO 路 3 months ago

Yes crying cause that shit burns馃槀馃槀馃槀

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Keith
Topeka, KS 路 a month ago

still use the stuff I have....works great stings like hell but

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Shane Nason
Middletown, CT 路 3 months ago

damn did that shit sting.

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Jesse Webb
Bay City, MI 路 a month ago

Funny you should mention that. I remember my mom putting that on an open wound that I had. And pouring it on the 10 cause pads that she folded in half to stuff into the wound. I still have a 8 inch scar from that one.

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Tim
Gloversville, NY 路 3 months ago

every time I fall off my bike and scrape my knees I knew I was getting that put on it turned my knees red and sting like a bee today's kids cry over spilled milk back in our day we cried for laughter

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jakeFromStateFarm
Mount Morris, MI 路 3 months ago

I wouldn鈥檛 know.. the 70s are a mythical time to me

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Liz
Sedro-Woolley, WA 路 3 months ago

Exactly lol 馃槅

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Laddie Bright
American Fork, UT 路 3 months ago

many times Mom would put it on everything

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Thelma Deller
Malvern, AR 路 3 months ago

absolutely right 馃槅

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Rebecca Cowles
San Antonio, TX 路 3 months ago

Yep

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Ryan Harris
New York City, NY 路 3 months ago

馃槀facts for sure

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Candee Laydee
Sacramento, CA 路 3 months ago

YES馃槀馃槀馃槀

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Paul Oneill
Warwick, RI 路 3 months ago

The miracle drug of all time

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Lois Cohan
Amargosa Valley, NV 路 3 months ago

馃槅馃憤馃徏

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TWAM
3 months ago

I wasn't that fortunate. my parents would rub dirt on it.

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Lorin Andrien
Canton, PA 路 3 months ago

Yes

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cookiemonster
Lexington, SC 路 3 months ago

HA HA FACT!!!!

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John Johnson
Fenton, MO 路 3 months ago

Truth馃挴

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JoJo
3 months ago

If you even had a scrape, the red crap was administered.

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Wendy Accorso-snyder
Brockport, NY 路 3 months ago

add baby oil for a tan

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JoJo
3 months ago

Oh, does anyone remember when the song, "Koda Chrome" came out? Not sure I spelled it correctly.馃槅馃

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Joel Dalangin
Perris, CA 路 3 months ago

Veer Chasm