Watkins Medicated Ointment

Relief from colds and muscle aches.

For more than eighty years, this versatile product has been making people feel better. It helps relieve that stuffed-up,congested feeling of a chest cold, and suppress the accompanying cough. As a rub, it provides relief from aching muscles, as well as windburn, sunburn, and minor burns and scalds.

A combination of menthol and camphor, skillfully compounded in a petrolatum base for convenient, effective use. Provides temporary relief from muscular soreness.

• Time-tested: Since 1915!
• Versatile: Provides relief from bruises, sprains, and sore muscles.
• Non-staining petrolatum base: Keeps skin from drying out; won’t stain clothes.
• Low-level anesthetic action: Depresses pain perception, suppresses coughs.
• Economical: Costs less per ounce than Vicks® VapoRub®.
• Pleasant, penetrating aroma: Provides a feeling of comfort.

Active Ingredients
• Menthol: An alcohol extracted from cornmint oil. When applied to the skin, menthol produces an intense and lasting cooling sensation that counteracts pain and is also used as an antipruritic.
It both stimulates the nerves for perception of cold and depresses those which transmit pain.
• Camphor: Occurs in nature in the camphor tree, an Asian evergreen related to cinnamon. When applied to the skin, camphor produces a mild local anesthetic action (depresses some nerve endings and stimulates others). It also acts as an antipruritic, which means it relieves itching.