As you may recall, I’ve been working with Vicks VapoRub as part of their Vicks Blogger Brigade for a few months now. Vicks VapoRub is a brand I’m proud to represent because I L-O-V-E it, and have since I was a kid. My mom was a firm believer in the power of Vicks to soothe our coughs when my brothers and I were kids, and so was my grandmother before her. According to my mom, my grandma used to saturate a flannel cloth in VapoRub and pin it to her pajamas when she was sick as a child. So the scent of Vicks is comforting to my mom, a reminder of TLC she received as a child, and it is for me as well. I hope it will be for my kids also. I think it will be, because last week when Sophie was fighting off the dreaded warm-weather cold and had begun to cough a little, she asked me more than once to “rub some of that on my chest” as she pointed to the VapoRub container!
If you haven’t already seen it, Vicks VapoRub has a Facebook page which is a great source for information and discussion about VapoRub and also for tips on keeping healthy! One of my favorite conversations there inspired this post. The question asked on the Vicks page was, “Many of you have been using VapoRub for years. Can you remember the first time it ever helped to soothe your cough?” Well, I can’t remember the first time, but I can’t remember a time when my family didn’t use it! Some of of my favorite answers from Facebook fans are:
“Forever!! I’m an asthmatic and would get very sick in the winter……Mom would bust out the Vicks, slather it on…and wrap me up in a nice warm T shirt, followed by a jammie top. Then I used it on MY daughter, and she uses it on her son. So, 40 years. I will never be without it.”
“I don’t remember the first time I ever used it. But I do know it was always in my moms medicine cabinet. And now it’s always in mine now that I have a child.”
“first time I was too little to remember. My mom and g’ma would put it on my chest and back and safety pin a bandana around my neck as to keep it from rubbing off on my pajamas. Just the smell of it going on was comforting.”
This is what I’ve been saying…Vicks VapoRub is THE STUFF when you have a cough & cold! It’s my go-to remedy and I so enjoyed reading the comments of those who feel the same.
So..can you remember the first time Vicks VapoRub soothed YOU?
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I am being compensated for my work as part of the Vicks Blogger Brigade. This post and my opinions on the product are solely my own.
Isn’t it funny so many can’t recall the first time but yet we can’t remember a time WITHOUT Vicks VapoRub?? That says a lot about the company to me; well, I guess the product. In a culture where change is moment to moment, it’s nice some things are still the same.
Love that you shared what others had to say; I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say something BAD about Vicks…!