Moulage

Make a statement and add a realistic touch for your students. Instructors are invited to contribute to this page. Ideally, your moulage kit should be compact and portable. The basic contents of your moulage kit should include:

A bruise wheel

Skin wax

Thick blood with stipple sponge

Fake Blood…lots of blood!

Tattoos

Full Thickness Burn

Supplies:

  • Bruise Wheel

  • Lube

  • Toilet Paper

  • Charcoal Powder

  • Thick Blood

  • Stipple Sponge

Application:

Apply a dark red base. Add lube and a layer of 1 ply toilet paper over the red base. Sprinkle on the charcoal powder. Tear the toilet paper in various areas to give a multi layer effect. Finish with generous dabs of thick blood with stipple sponge for best results.

Quick Wax Laceration

Supplies:

  • Skin Wax

  • thick blood

  • blood

  • tongue depressor or other scoring tool

Application:

With your hands roll wax into long thin log. Apply to area where you want a laceration. Smooth edges of wax log into skin to adhere the wax to the body. Use a tongue depressor or other scoring tool to make a long “cut” along the ridge of the wax log. Dab thick blood down the middle of the cut. Add dabs of thick blood around the edges of the laceration to hide where the wax meets the skin. Pour blood on as desired. Wax is great, but will have the tendency to melt and slough off in hot temperatures. Likewise, in cold temperatures, it is not as pliable and will not adhere to the skin. Tattoo lacs maybe be better in these cases.

Infected Wound

Infected Wound

Supplies:

  • Wax laceration or tattoo lac

  • bruise wheel

  • make up sponge

Application:

Apply laceration. With the bruise wheel build up the colors bright red, dark red, green and yellow around the wound. If this wound is going to under clothing, be sure to add more make up. Otherwise, it may rub off on the clothing and lose it’s impact.

Frostbite

Supplies:

  • bruise wheel

  • make up sponge

Application:

Apply black makeup to fingertips. This is, of course, is an exaggeration of frostbite but will convey to students that the patient is indeed suffering from frostbite.

Sucking Chest Wound

Supplies:

  • Wax laceration

  • baking soda with red dye mixed in or alka seltzer tab

  • vinegar for baking soda or water for tab

  • thick blood

Application:

Create a log and then a ring out of the skin wax. With another piece of wax, make a flatten disc to act as the base of the ring. Pack the ring with a crush alka seltzer tab or red dyed baking soda. Apply to chest and cover with think blood. At the start of the scenario, add water or vinegar to create that bubbling open chest wound effect. Basically, you are building a mini volcano!

Compound Wrist Fracture

Supplies:

Application:

coming soon!