A 1987 jar of VapoRub has gone viral on Twitter after a mom shares that the “vintage Vicks” — which her own mother used on her as a child — worked well on her congested son.

Parenting Woman's expired Vicks VapoRub jar from 1980s goes viral: ‘Vintage Vicks for the win’ As the photo made Twitter users feel nostalgic, Vicks VapoRub also chimed in ...

One mom's story of using a decades-old jar of Vicks VapoRub has social media users singing the product's praises, even as the brand cautions the use of expired products. Heather Chacon, an ...

Think about your childhood memories of little blue jars of Vicks VapoRub. Hopefully, you weren’t also subjected to boiled-onion poultices for chest colds, but you may recall other common remedies back ...

Twitter users are nostalgic for childhood sick days after woman goes viral for using 34-year-old jar of Vicks VapoRub Vicks entered the chat, urging people NOT to use expired products.

This brought me to a dead-halt, and I went to my shelf and fetched a 40-year-old jar of the stuff I'm so attached to. Folks, I'm in antiques and junk, and this is old enough to be a glass jar.

In an era of children’s cold-medicine shortages, it is interesting to recall the old days. Before miracle drugs and tastier fruit-flavored medications, mountain folks relied on home remedies ...

Vicks VapoRub in its blue jar has been a staple of home medicine chests for more than 100 years. Readers of this column have shared a lot of unique uses for this old-fashioned remedy: nail fungus ...

(His son later came up with “VapoRub.”) Old advertising spoke of the “Romance of the Little Blue Jar” with ingredients from “strange, far-distant lands”: menthol from Japan, camphor ...

Many have stories of Vicks VapoRub from childhood, but among many Latinos the gooey salve is close to legendary. There are poems, essays, video spoofs, rap songs, scenes in Latino-themed TV shows ...

A viral Facebook post claims a 2-year-old boy died after his mother applied Vicks VapoRub to his skin, but the manufacturer and authorities in U.S. and Mexico say they have no record of such a death.