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SeptemberHow Methyl Salicylate Works
What is methyl salicylate, and does it work?
You limp into the pharmacy or the shops, most staff will point you to the direction of products like Dencorub or Metsal. Both products have the same telltale smell, the smell of wintergreen oil. Wintergreen is an extract of a plant call Gaultheria procumbens, but birch trees also produce the same compound. As it is easier and cheaper to produce in the laboratory, Methyl Salicylic Acid (or Methyl salicylate) is now a synthetic product. In heat rubs, the few common friends of the