Help Alleviate Bruises

Hack: help heal bruises quicker.

You might be someone whose skin bruises easily, or you might just have gotten a bruise of walking into the chair again. Either way, Vicks can be your friend. In this case, you need to add some salt, too.

With a pinch of salt and a dab of Vicks, rub it onto any areas of your skin that are bruised. It will dissolve the bruise and your skin will return to normal pretty quickly! And you can repeat the process until the bruise goes away.

Fact about bruises: they form when the soft tissues of the body get bumped. And when they do, small veins and capillaries (those tiniest blood vessels) under the skin sometimes break. Red blood cells can leak out of these blood vessels. The red blood cells that collect under your skin are what cause that bluish, purplish, reddish, or blackish mark.