773. Breath Fresheners, Toothpicks and More

Shabbos 19:12

A woman may go out with pepper, salt or any other substance that one places in her mouth to sweeten her breath. However, she may not put these things in her mouth on Shabbos. Women may also go out with slivers of wood in their ears (to keep piercings from closing up), with bells around their necks or on their garments, and with a cloak fastened using something like a nut or a stone as a button, though she may not use this leniency as a pretext to transport the stone or the nut. A woman may not fasten her cloak using a coin – unlike a stone, a coin cannot be designated for Shabbos-permitted purposes – but if her cloak was fastened with a coin from before Shabbos, she may go out wearing it on Shabbos.

Shabbos 19:13

A man may go out in a public domain with a splinter of wood as a toothpick or in his sandal but if it falls out, he may not put it back. He may go out with padding or a sponge covering a wound as long as he does not tie a string around it. This is because he considers the string to be important even though it does not facilitate the healing process. He may go out with a piece of garlic skin or onion skin or a bandage on a wound. He may also open and close the bandage on Shabbos. He may go out with a compress, plaster or other dressing on a wound, with a coin on a foot injury, and various cures that people hang on themselves provided that doctors consider them effective.