Popular Ukrainian brand Home Doctor presents a collection of preventive balms and rubs with a wide range of health benefits. They help to cope with muscle and joint pain, relieve sore feet after a long day at work, speed up the healing of minor wounds, and make bruises fade faster. Let us take a closer look at these balms and figure out how they can be useful to you.
Home Doctor is a cosmetic brand owned by the Elfa group of companies, which was founded in Ukraine and has production facilities in Ukraine, Poland, and Slovakia. Founded over a decade ago, Elfa is one of the most popular cosmetic producers in its home country. Home Doctor offers a wide range of personal care products, including non-medicated preventive balms and rubs designed to relieve a wide range of symptoms.
Home Doctor’s preventive balms are suitable for the whole family, except for kids under 3, because they have been specifically developed for home first aid kits. They can be used to relieve:
- muscle and joint pain that results in limited mobility
- itching from insect bites and stings
- swelling from bruises and sprains
- haematomas
- neuralgia, rheumatic pain, radicular pain, myositis pain, and low back pain (lumbago)
- headaches
- cough, stuffy nose, and other symptoms of the common cold
These products are not medicated, so they can be sold over the counter. They are formulated with a carefully balanced combination of natural ingredients that have been used in traditional medicine for centuries and modern innovative active ingredients. Working together, they ensure a quick and long-lasting result.
For example, Home Doctor’s balm designed to relieve muscle and joint pain and to restore the freedom and ease of movement is formulated with bischofite and basket plant extract. Bischofite is a magnesium chloride mineral that has a pronounced analgesic effect. Basket plant extract has a warming effect; it relieves inflammation and reduces swelling.
The brand’s warming balm, designed to relieve the symptoms of hypothermia, common cold and flu, contains mustard essential oil. This oil is known for its irritating effect, which helps to boost microcirculation and trigger the body’s natural protective mechanisms. In addition, it exhibits a strong bactericidal effect, helps to relieve headache, and stimulates perspiration.
Home Doctor’s healing balm is formulated with comfrey and sea buckthorn extracts. Their effect is complemented by tocopherol (vitamin E) and lavender oil. Thanks to such a combination of active ingredients, the balm speeds up the healing of skin damage caused by minor burns, bed sores and dermatitis, reduces pain and swelling caused by bruises and sprains, and relieves irritation and itching from insect bites and stings.
Anti Pain Body Rub from Home Doctor’s collection of preventive balms contains 5% of turpentine, camphor, and red pepper extract. These ingredients have a pronounced analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and wound healing effect. As a result, this balm is an effective remedy for various kinds of pain (neuralgia, rheumatic pain, radicular pain, myositis pain). It will also come in handy if you need to boost blood circulation.
Finally, the key active ingredients of the brand’s anti cold balm are eucalyptus essential oil and camphor. Their effect is complemented by turpentine, menthol, nutmeg extract, and thymol. These ingredients have pronounced anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, due to which the balm effectively relieves the symptoms of the common cold and other respiratory conditions, as well as headache and back pain.
All preventive balms produced by Home Doctor have a nice texture and come in compact tubes that won’t take up much space in your first aid kit. You should keep in mind that many of them contain ingredients with a local irritating effect, so you should try them on a small area of your skin before use to make sure you’re not allergic and rinse them off immediately if you start experiencing any unpleasant symptoms.
