How to Make a Petroleum Jelly Cotton ball Fire Starter

In this video we show you how to make a great and simple fire starter using only a cotton ball and some petroleum jelly. This fire starter will easily start with a fire striker like the BlastMatch from Ultimate Survival Technologies (http://www.ultimatesurvival.com/) .

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[esbenboye]

I was just wondering... If you keep them in e.g. a survivalkit, won't the petroleum evaporate over time and make it useless?

[2brothersadventures]

@esbenboye It does not evaporate as it is oil based. Oil does not noticeably evaporate. They will be ready if and when you need them.

[Dax21234]

can you just use your hands to put the vaseline in?

[2brothersadventures]

@Dax21234 Yes, you just get messy.

[nubrigol]

One thought I had about these VS char cloth or char chord is that they might catch fire ok after getting a little wet. I assume that the petroleum jelly would repel water from the cotton pretty well. Do you find that to be true?

[2brothersadventures]

@nubrigol Check out our video titled "WetFire and Cotton ball fire starter soaked in water" to see how well they stand up to water.

[Beti1948]

Thanks for the video!

[ACrock2niteDC]

Really good video. It's nice to see an original method and then watch it proven. Really good

[snowbal1776]

sweet...

[HUSHMONEYMUZIK]

great video..thank you soooo much for this!

[TheIowaPrepper]

@esbenboye Vaseline doesn't evaporate. However, it does melt and run into everything when the sun heats it up. Personally I carry a medicine bottle with about 30-40 cotton balls in it and a tube of triple antibiotic ointment in my pack. A small dab of the ointment on a cottonball gently fluffed into a ball and you have instant fire starter in any weather.

[Phantasmos]

I am wondering, does it burn long enough to light a briquet coal fire?

[KaiS2K]

Nice video! I do mine different from everyone I guess. I basically take a ziploc bag, take a certain amount from a spoon and use the bag to wipe the spoon clean. Then I lay the bag down flat and spread the jelly evenly throughout the bag. Then I open the bag and stick a handful of cotton balls, close the bag and coat them evenly. Now I can choose to leave it in there until I need to use them or I can transfer them into a different container and repeat the process if needed.

[toodamlazy408]

does vasiline work? :)

[xmicina]

I have a question? Where in nature you will manage to collect cotton and where you take your vaseline? Cotton and vaseline is not primary buschcraft source aviable..it is usualy send by God.. respectively made by somebody another in Africa or similar distant country :) Soak cattail fluff in heated mix of resin and bee-wax reali bushcraft alternative?Or use fluff+ fresh sap(resin from pine blisters?). For me is not even bee-wax aviable basic buschcraft source( I have some from bee kepper).Thanks

[xmicina]

Hi, What about dip a cotton in waseline ..and then do a little mummy. roll cotton severly times to soak vaseline beetween fibres .no need for spoon and other suff :) This proces works good with mixing cob, straw into clay .. mixing clay and straw together= much of work ..I mix mud first, put mud on straw , fewtimes step on it, roll over and straw with clay is in seconds made :) Or put straw on top of pit with wet earth, shake little with straw and take bundle with straw and clay and aply it.