SECRETS OF VICKS VAPO-RUB

SECRETS OF VICKS VAPO-RUB

CHICAGO, Ill. (Wireless Flash) -- Most folks associate Vicks Vapo-Rub with a nasty cold -- but the medicated balm actually has a sexy secret past. In honor of Vapo-Rub's 110th anniversary, the makers have come up with all sorts of unusual factoids about the product's past. Did you know that prostitutes in Alaskan brothels once used the menthol-scented goo as a sexual lubricant? Or that police officers often smear dabs of Vapo-Rub under their noses to combat the smell of decomposing corpses at crime scenes? Other oddball uses include healing paper cuts, getting rid of dandruff and smearing the stuff on bird feeders to act as a squirrel deterrent.