The main components are different.
The main components of essential balm are menthol, methyl salicylate, camphor, eucalyptus oil and eugenol, and the auxiliary materials are liquid paraffin, chlorophyll and essence. Refreshing oil, also known as "tiger balm", is mainly composed of menthol, peppermint oil, camphor, camphor oil, eucalyptus oil, clove oil and cinnamon oil. The auxiliary materials are paraffin, ceresin and vaseline.
Different roles
Essential balm is a light green clear oily liquid, which can be used externally or orally. Cooling oil is a kind of white or yellowish ointment, which smells fragrant and has a cool and exciting feeling on the skin surface. If the ambient temperature is above 40℃, it will melt a little, so it can only be used externally, not orally.
Different efficacy
The main function of essential balm is to cool and relieve pain, dispel wind and relieve itching, and it is mainly used for a series of uncomfortable symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting caused by mosquito bites, colds and carsickness. Cooling oil has the functions of cooling, refreshing, relieving itching and pain, and is mainly used for mosquito bites, itchy skin and mild burns.
Which mosquito repellent effect is better, wind oil or cool oil?
It has a certain effect.
Both wind oil and cool oil have strong smells, which mosquitoes don't like. Mosquitoes will automatically avoid this smell, so both of them can play a certain mosquito repellent effect, and after mosquito bites, applying some can also play a certain antipruritic effect.
However, neither essential balm nor cool oil contains mosquito-killing ingredients. If there are many mosquitoes at home, it is not very effective to use wind oil and cool oil alone. It is suggested that professional mosquito repellent products such as mosquito repellent incense, mosquito repellent liquid and mosquito repellent tablets can be selected to repel mosquitoes.