DaasYochid: Chapstick is a balm-not unlike any handcream or other vaseline-like(petroleum jelly for the uninitiated)products. It was put into a tube for easier application but it is not necessarily universally applied with the tube. There are, for example, similar tubes made by “Vaseline” with the same way of application. Toothpaste is never applied in any other way. Neither is lipstick ever applied in other ways. Hence, the possibility of Chapstick being “kelacahr jad” is present, when it is not possible to be relevant with tootpaste or lipstick. For the record, I would not use chapstick or vaseline on shabbos , exsctly because it might be “memachek’. My point was only to be ‘melamed zechus’ on that person,not unlike what apushateyid wrote concerning the doubts what happened.
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