: a soothing or healing salve : ointment
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Cosmetics emporium Belizean Breezes Soap Co. sells all-natural unguents for face and body.
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Gemma Price, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2025
All the perfumed unguents and performative rituals of fame are present.
—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
The first was molecules from embalming ingredients such as oils, waxes and unguents.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
TikTok has its Get Ready With Mes, where influencers chat over their plethora of skin-nourishing unguents and artful makeup products.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
Nevertheless, our ancestors had some inkling that different substances, when applied as ointments, unguents, or pastes, could protect or heal skin from a range of injuries, including sun damage.
—Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But the notion of an alien worm producing its own mind-melting unguent doesn’t seem especially bonkers.
—Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
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Gemma Price, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2025
All the perfumed unguents and performative rituals of fame are present.
—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
The first was molecules from embalming ingredients such as oils, waxes and unguents.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
TikTok has its Get Ready With Mes, where influencers chat over their plethora of skin-nourishing unguents and artful makeup products.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
Nevertheless, our ancestors had some inkling that different substances, when applied as ointments, unguents, or pastes, could protect or heal skin from a range of injuries, including sun damage.
—Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But the notion of an alien worm producing its own mind-melting unguent doesn’t seem especially bonkers.
—Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Unguent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unguent. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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