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The Bag Balm product is known for its characteristic 8-oz green square tins featuring a cow's head and red clovers on the lid. It has been in production since 1899. [ 2 ] The formula was purchased by John L. Norris from a Wells River, Vermont , druggist sometime before the turn of the century.
Zam-Buk is a patent medicine which was produced by the Zam-Buk Company of Leeds, England, founded by Charles Edward Fulford.It was first sold by his Bile Beans company in 1902, [1] as a herbal balm and antiseptic ointment; the use of a complementary Zam-Buk soap was recommended to augment the treatment.
Ingredients of cosmetic products are listed following International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients (INCI). These INCI names often differ greatly from systematic chemical nomenclature or from more common trivial names. The below tables are sorted as follows:
He blended menthol into petroleum jelly, at first calling it Richardson's Croup and Pneumonia Cure Salve, later changing the name to Vicks VapoRub. It was named after Richardson's brother-in-law, Joshua Vick, a physician who had arranged for Richardson to have access to a laboratory to create the product.
It is manufactured for Bayer UK by the Devon-based Wrafton Laboratories [2] division of US over-the counter and supermarket own-label preparation producer Perrigo. [ 3 ] Originally a thick antiseptic ointment with a distinctive pink colour and scented with oil of wintergreen , Germolene was also reformulated as a cream , with both an ointment ...
Lip balm or lip salve is a wax-like substance applied to the lips to moisturize and relieve chapped or dry lips, angular cheilitis, stomatitis, or cold sores. Lip balm often contains beeswax or carnauba wax , camphor , cetyl alcohol , lanolin , paraffin , and petrolatum , among other ingredients.
In the United States, the active ingredients of Carmex lip balm are benzocaine, camphor (1.7%), menthol (0.7%), phenol (0.4%), and salicylic acid. [9] The inactive ingredients, in order of greatest used to least used in the product, are lanolin, cetyl esters, paraffin wax, cocoa butter, beeswax, and flavor. [10]
This may possibly be the biblical balm, though other sources conclude that the biblical balm is Balsam (opobalsamum). [17] This species originated in the Southern regions of Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and in particular Babylon. Babylonians used it for respiratory related diseases. 8