Prepping Tip of the Week 12/8/17 – Lip Balm Fire Starter

By MorganDecember 8, 2017

Lip balm isn’t just good for chapped lips! It’s great as a fire starter as well. As long as the lip balm has petroleum or beeswax, it will be great to smear onto any tinder to get a fire going easily.

Lip balm is small and inexpensive, so stock up and put one in each kit!

Here’s a video where I use beeswax lip balm to get a fire started:

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Morgan

Morgan is the founder of Rogue Preparedness. She has been a prepper for over a decade. She's a wife, mother of two daughters and is homesteading off grid. She teaches people how to be prepared for emergencies and disasters.