For the past few days I was missing out something in my snuff experience, I was looking over my collection and could not find something I would really want to snuff, it was WoS Brunswick witch I have forgot in a jacket i haven’t worn for about a week. Sadly when I opened the tin I realized that it had all dried out, its basically like sand texture not very pleasant to snuff, very rough on the nose I can say.I think i read a thread 2 months back about a way to bring the snuff to a moist consistence. I would need a little bit of advice with this, I haven’t yet rehydrated any snuff.
No problem buddy, except that you need to learn to do searches on this site. Go get 'em!
Can it be restored back to its original state? 
Al.
Juxtaposer searched all over the place cannot find some threads I remember I read,
Hey Andrei, When searching something choose “comments”, if the default “topics” doesn’t return any hits. Like this I personally rehydrate dried snuff the same way I moisten dried up pipe tobacco; place the open tin (on a “pedestal” of some sort that the tin doesn’t float in the water) in a larger container that has some water in it. Cover. Wait a day or two. Or – cover the larger container with a moist towel. The dry tobacco will eagerly absorp water when placed in more humid athmosphere. Some people spritz the tobacco directly with water. I’ve never tried this.
Andrei, there are several methods. Jari is describing what I call “island” indirect method (snuff is surrounded by water.) I often use the “lake” indirect method which is placing the snuff in a closed container with a little bottle cap full of water nested inside (water is surrounded by snuff). You just have to be careful not to spill it. Ermtony has on his blog and website an excellent direct method which you can read: HERE
What I have done at times, and it seems to work, is I dump the snuff in a small bowl, and just drop a few drops of water into it, and stir it in with a small spoon.
I’ve used the “island” method, great term Xander, with great results with various evil-plastic-tap-box victims. Now that I’ve reread Ermtony’s use of the sprayer I’ll darn sure give that a try as well.
I haven’t re-hydrated snuff, but pipe tobacco can be effectively rehydrated by spraying with a little water (I mix with a touch of vodka or whiskey) and then sealing up in an airtight container or pouch to “equalize” for a couple of days. Ermtony’s method on his blog uses a nasal spray bottle. I have a little spritzer (like a perfume sprayer) that I use for that. Same concept. Just to note - it is better to rehydrate multiple times than to overhydrate, in my experience. So, go gentle at first, and then a couple of days later, just spritz it again. I would say that pipe tobacco comes back from the dead in about a week, with 3-4 light mistings. If you want to just slightly hydrate something (again, my only experience is pipe tobacco) then just moisten a cotton facial pad and put it into an airtight pouch with the tobacco for a few days. Don’t use cotton balls - they shed. The flat, pressed or embossed facial pads seem to stay together well and are cheap too. I guess that is an “indirect” method but it has worked effectively for me for tobacco that is just a little drier than I would like, without the risk of making anything soggy.
Tried the Island method on some SG Black Scotch, and it went from sandy and making my nose clog like hell to quite good.
I’ve been on a roll with rehydrated SG Plains myself, and their KB, so much better with proper hydration. I’m thinking about setting up a hydration station on my desk so I can go out for the day with perfectly moist snuff. A side note…I have noticed that teak wood boxes don’t warp as much as the other odd woods.
I have a tin I forgot about, of Brunswick, and it’s all glittery with weird brown bits all over the top.
I soak green flower arrangement foam in mixture of propylene glycol and distilled water, then just put the chunk in a closed container with the tobacco, works for snuff and pipe tobacco. You can buy the propylene glycol/water mixture premade at any cigar shop and the green flower arranging stuff is quite cheap at florist shops.
put it somewhere above your kettle and let the steam do the trick.
I usually leave an open tin of dried out snuff in my shower closet and when I take a hot shower the steam in the room works wonders with refreshing my snuff. Just be careful of perfumy soaps or shampoos mixing with the water vapour and tainting the snuff. -Kidnapper
@badbusinessman that is exactly the direction I am headed.