Does Anyone Remember This?

[Caran]

Soap and sugar poultices for splinters etc?
I got a splinter in my finger today after a bit of weeding. I got OH to probe at it with a needle. It was such a tiny splinter but very sore. He couldn't shift it. The I remembered my mother's old remedy. Squash soap and sugar together put it on splinter site and cover with a plaster.
Unfortunately I didn't remember it correctly. The soap needed to be squidgy so I tried to melt it in microwave. Didn't work and sugar didn't really meld into it. I should have used warm water, doh!! Anyway I carried on and eventually had a look, the splinter had gone, success!!

[calmck]

Magnesium sulphate paste. Available in Boots drawing ointment for splinters etc

[Barsel]

Tony, It was in the hall which doubled up as a gym and it was when I fell off some of the apparatus and stretched out my hands to try and break my fall when my nail found the splinter sticking up out of the floor.

[tonyav]

Ohhhh bloody horrible the splinters off those parquet floors ( hard wood ), Barsel. Yeah forgot to add that the hall nearly always doubled up as a gym as well.