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Vicks is made of human hair

This is from one of my home lore. I don't want to forget this, so jotting it down. My little brother who was and is the smartest among the 3 of us and me being the dumb kind. Once he came to me with a Vicks vaporub bottle in his hand and told me that it was made of human hair and dad told him about it. This was when he was around 9-10 and I was 10-11. I did not give any other thought to it and blindly believed that Vicks was made from human hair, since then for us Vicks was a mush made from human hair. Days passed and the ingredients for Vicks remained the same for both of us, human hair. Then, out of nowhere it struck me that it did not make sense that Vicks could be made of human hair. I started  pushing the limits of my powerhouse, I could finally solve the mystery. I called Chotu and asked him, "what is Vicks made of?" Without blinking, he said "with human hair, dad told me". Oh yeah? with a smug look, I told him, this is what has happened. You asked