On 15/05/2021 18:42, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 15/05/2021 18:25, soup wrote:
On 15/05/2021 18:04, Chris Bacon wrote:

"My favorite remedy is good old fashioned Bag Balm which is made with
wool alcohol (a.k.a. lanolin)."

That's completely wrong. Lanolin is oily stuff that comes from sheep
fleeces, "wood alcohol" is methanol.

Erm wood and wool are two entirely different things.

Mind you I have never heard of wool alcohol typo and the poster is
correct or something that exists and I have just not heard of it.

Oh, I should hAVE gone to Specsavers. Thank you for helping with that!

Neither have I, BTW. Hence my errer.

Seems wooL alcohols do exist.

https://dermnetnz.org/topics/allergy-to-wool-alcohols/

News to me, but there you go you learn something everyday.