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- > Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
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- Vicks Vaporub Consumer Information Panel:
- Relieves nasal congestion for up to 8 hours, eases coughs due to colds, soothes
- muscular aches.
- CONTAINS: MENTHOL 2.9%, CAMPHOR 5.3%, THYMOL O.1%, EUCALYPTUS OIL 1.3%,
- TURPENTINE OIL 4.8%, NUTMEG OIL 0.5%, CEDARWOOD OIL 0.5% W/W.
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- It can be used as a paint-stripper too. My mother used to make up a look-alike
- mixture of Vaseline and Eucalyptus Oil when she ran out of it which worked
- just as well and didn't burn the skin as much.
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- Carolyn
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