In my opinion, this is by far the best survival use for pine pitch. Here’s a video of how to make a pine sap “candle.”

Then light it, and it will burn for a while, kind of light a primitive tea light. Surround the moss with some pine resin.Īlternatively, you can hollow out a piece of wood and stuff it full of pine resin or pine pitch and a little bit of fabric to act as the wick.Put some moss in the bowl to act as a wick.You’ll need a rock in a bowl shape and a bit of moss.What you can do is make a “lamp” from pine sap or pitch. Even if you mix the pine resin (or pitch) with beeswax when making the candle, the pine resin will just ignite into a big ball of flames – not a slow-burning candle with a small flame at the wick. Note right away that you can NOT make a candle out of pine resin (even though there are lots of websites saying that you can). This makes it great for making primitive lamps. Pine Sap LampĪs mentioned before, pine resin is really flammable. The final step is to add some beeswax to make it firm. Next, you’ll want to mix the pine sap with olive oil. Strain the heated pine sap through a sieve to get out any dirt or bark. Do NOT heat the pine sap directly over a flame because it is highly flammable! Using a double boiler, heat the sap into a liquid. To make pine pitch salve, you first need to collect some sap from pine trees. In addition to being a natural antiseptic, pine sap is also anti-inflammatory, and its stickiness helps it close wounds. In this same way, pine resin can also be used to heal our wounds. The resin has antibacterial properties which prevent the damaged tree from getting infected. Pine trees ooze resin when they get damaged. So, to increase our survival knowledge and skills, today, I want to talk about all of the things you can do with pine tree sap. Unfortunately, a lot of this knowledge has been lost, and nowadays, people are entirely helpless to do things on their own. Before we had giant supermarkets and hardware stores, people had to know how to make things themselves.

Coal Hollow by Melanie Light