Can't take any credit for this apart from seeing it and sharing here. It is just a simple twist on the cotton wool & vaseline concept. So simple you kick yourself and wonder why you hadn't thought of it sooner.
http://adoricchi.blogspot.it/2015/02/emergency-waterproof-fire-capsulehow-to.html (http://adoricchi.blogspot.it/2015/02/emergency-waterproof-fire-capsulehow-to.html)
clever
That is pretty clever. I've never used vaseline and cotton wool, only wax and wool. Is it messy?
Here's the blog on the wax ones
http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/blog/2014/01/making-your-own-solid-fuel-for-stoves/
I use vasealean and cotton wool all the time, greart stuff, and sometimes make my own storm matchs useing fat wood as the stick and coat the sulpher/phosphorus, with wax to water proof them, just scrape the wax off before you strike them, you can never have enough sources of fire i think,, birch bark is great in the wet along with pine resin, and spliting and fethering the wood helps a lot too