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Why put a byproduct of the petroleum industry on your skin when there are safer, better natural alternatives available? There are plenty of articles floating on web on just how toxic petroleum jelly is (some insist it can cause cancer due to contamination with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS)) if you do a quick Google search. We’re no longer in the 19th century people and there are gorgeous products ranging from affordable to luxury made by eco-conscious and passionate brands on a mission. These are all multi-purpose balms or salves using all-natural and organic formulations designed to be a cure-all for cuts,...

Zincuta makes one product, but it makes it well. Its signature Zincuta Ointment is a specialty skin cream that is used to heal and bring relief to skin conditions like chafes, burns, sores, bites, psoriasis, and eczema (amongst others). It is made in Brooklyn, New York, and only contains natural ingredients, which include lavender, beeswax, bergamot, and zinc oxide.

  My father was a Veterinary Surgeon-Josiah C. Case, D.V.S. and called "Dear Doctor Joe", a tribute that I cherish. This story about one of his cases is strange, but true. In those long-ago days around 1900 he had the first automobile in Peconic, and that was about the time of the first telephones in the area, too. One day Mamma answered a frantic phone call from George Leslie who lived on Indian Neck Lane. "Mis' Joe, m'cow's awful sick. Tell Doc to come quick!" Well, Papa had gone to Southold and she didn't know how to get hold of...

When it comes to OTC treatments, there are a host of tried and true remedies, many of which have storied histories. Take, for example, Zincuta Ointment, a treatment initially crafted by Dr. Josiah C. Case (1865-1930). Case’s ointment was said to bring relief and heal a litany of skin afflictions—chafes, burns, sun burns, abrasions, raw sores, insect bites, psoriasis, eczema and poison ivy. Said to be wildly popular, according to local lore, Case’s popular product vanished from shelves in the 1930s.About 15 years ago, herbalist Donna Penney, who was from the same area of New York as Case, began mixing her own...