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Watkins Petro Carbo Salve is one of our most requested and popular products. It’s one of the “Super Seven”, meaning one of the 7 most famous and popular Watkins products ever!

It has been known by many names over the last 100 plus years, and many will recognize it by these names. Some of the names include: Black Salve, Petro Carbo Black, Drawing Salve, Man or Beast First Aid Ointment, Udder Balm, Cow Teat Salve, Bag Balm, and PCS.

It can be used on people, dogs, and many other animals - but don’t allow pets to ingest it.

Watkins Petro Carbo Salve contains Phenol, which was once called “carbolic acid”. This is a very effective topical analgesic that was used for decades for disinfecting medical instruments. Other ingredients include Oil of Spruce, which has a long history in North American folk medicine of use for aches and pains; Camphor, which is a fragrant counter-irritant extracted from an Asian evergreen related to cinnamon; and Oil of Cajeput, which is extracted from the White Tea Tree in the Melaleuca family, which includes eucalyptus and clove. It’s used widely in Eastern medicine as an antiseptic and to relieve aches and pains.

Watkins Petro Carbo Salve is best known as a “Drawing Salve”. A drawing salve will “draw” things like splinters and infections out of your skin. There are many stories of things Petro Carbo Salve has helped draw, including wood slivers, pieces of glass, steel shavings, feather particles, and infections such as boils and pimples.

Some of the classic uses for Petro Carbo include burns, sunburn, minor cuts, scrapes, insect bites, fire ant bites, bee stings, diaper rash, psoriasis, toe-nail fungus, in-grown toenails, dry skin, cracked skin, splinters of all kinds, infections, boils, pimples, poison ivy blisters, prickly heat rash, and other minor skin irritations.

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