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Recent Examples of unguentAll 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 But the institutional gangrene to which Levin draws attention seems to me to go beyond what the unguents in our current chrismatories can heal.—Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
The chronic condition can cause irritation but flare-ups can be managed through diet, as well as ointments or creams.
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Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
9 Oct. 2025
Patients will also be able to pay as low as $162 – an 80% reduction to the current price – for prescription ointment Eucrisa, which is used to treat mild-to-moderate eczema.
And though the interiors are truly the star of the show here, don’t forget to peer through the floor-to-ceiling windows; views of Arthur’s Seat serve as a soothing balm.
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Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
12 Oct. 2025
Once some hydration has soaked in, blot your balm off your lips for a drier base.
But consolidation is a short-term salve with long-term side effects.
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Katica Roy,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
But, given the gentle, spatial, simultaneously simple and layered productions on the three albums, one does experience the music as a sort of nervous system salve in a noisy world.
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