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Originally Posted by 1010011010
The point of putting fat/oil on burns is to trap moisture and keep the skin from drying out. It might be percieved as warmer due to the loss of evaporative cooling, I suppose. By the time you get around to rubbing butter on it (which should be AFTER you've run it under cool water for 5 to 10 minutes, yes?) there's not really any heat left from the initial burn to be retained.
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This is fine. I would rather use an actual moisturising lotion though.
The old wives tale is not about putting on butter/oil after you've stopped the burn, but rather using the butter in order to stop the burn. The oil spreads the heat further down, retaining heat and doing more damage.