In the Latino community, Vicks VapoRub inspires a curious ... Each time he caught a cold, his mother would slather his chest with the salve as if she were icing a birthday cake, then put him ...

When Liliana Mendoza was a kid growing up in Mexico, Vicks VapoRub was a go-to treatment in her household for common colds and pain. “My grandma used to use it on our chest, our back ...

Parents should not apply Vicks VapoRub, the salve used to relieve symptoms of cough and congestion, to children under the age of two, doctors warn. Dr. Bruce Rubin, the lead author of a study on ...

Doctors speculated it might have to do with Vicks, a menthol and eucalyptus salve that had been rubbed under her nose. To test their theory, the scientists looked at how the ointment affected ...

But what is Vicks VapoRub and what actually makes it so damn versatile? Well, each tub of salve contains a powerful blend of ingredients: camphor, menthol, eucalyptus, cedar leaf oil, nutmeg oil ...

When I read your articles about the effect of Vicks on fungus, I began wondering if it would work on my itchy, scaly patch. I’d noticed when we were in Hawaii that it softened when I faithfully ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina native who invented the popular salve with the recognizable aroma will be remembered with a historical marker in the city where it was invented. The highway ...

An inventor helped us breathe — and created an annoyance that still lives on. Lunsford Richardson, the creator of Vicks ...

Adding to a string of cautions about treating children’s colds, a study to be released Tuesday finds that the popular salve Vicks VapoRub poses risks to infants and toddlers. The medication can ...

Richardson invented a lot of remedies in the 1890s, but the one that clicked was Vicks Magic Croup Salve, created to help people breathe better when they had colds. (His son later came up with ...