Synthol
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This article is about the French mouthwash and tonic. For the bodybuilding oil, see Bodybuilding#Non muscle-developing methods.
Synthol is a mouthwash, hair product and tonic, available in France since 1925. Not to be confused with the artificial bodybuilding aid, which is an injectable substance of the same name.
The formula consists of chloral hydrate, menthol, veratrol, resorcinol and salicylic acid. Sold mainly as a mouthwash, in a distinctive black carton, it is also packaged as a gel and spray for the treatment of muscular pain.
Synthol was developed by Maurice Bunau-Varilla, a prominent newspaper publisher of the early twentieth century. He promoted it as a cure-all tonic.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Pinsole, Dominique (August 2009). "Le Synthol, moteur de l'histoire" (in French). Le Monde diplomatique. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2009/08/PINSOLLE/17743.
