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I am stepping into a life long journey of Natural Living. I will take my family along for the ride and take as many notes as I can. I know I won't always get it right, I know I will just have to keep trying. If my stumbles can aid one person into a natural life, that will be the frosting on my cake. The cake will be a healthier family for me.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Homemade Vicks chest rub

A great friend of mine recently made her own version of Vicks! I have been searching for this, because I have use Vicks on my babies every time they get a fever. If you put is on their chest and back and the bottoms of there feet and put socks on them at bedtime, the fever break. It has worked everytime. But everytime I used vicks I worried about what I was putting into their little bodies. This is what I found,
Active Ingredients (Purpose)

  • Regular: Camphor 4.8% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic) Eucalyptus oil 1.2% (Cough suppressant) Menthol 2.6% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)
  • Lemon: Camphor 4.7% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)

  • Eucalyptus oil 1.2% (Cough suppressant) Menthol 2.6% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)
Inactive Ingredients
Regular: Cedarleaf oil, nutmeg oil, special petrolatum, thymol, turpentine oil
Lemon: Cedarleaf oil, lemon fragrance, nutmeg oil, special petrolatum, thymol, turpentine oil
Not so terrible, but I would rather no exactly where everything comes from and know its not synthetic. So here is the recipe from my friend: 
Bee's wax and Almond oil mixture to the texture you'd like your rub to be and add 60-180 drops of Eucalyptus oil.
I know it seems like a lot of drops of Eucalyptus oil, but at 60 it really take on that vicks smell, if you want it stronger add more. It's all to your own preference. I can't wait to fever season to start, not that I want them to have fever's, but so I can try this. I know my friend has used it and it works and a friend of her's used it and loved it!
God Bless you in you journey to bring more natural items into your home! :)

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