This creates a warming sensation that helps wake up muscles on cooler days or can also help on sore muscles it is similar to many of the warming creams that riders in belgium use on their legs for cold races it includes many natural ingredients i recommend putting this on your legs a few minutes before you go out into the cold so that it starts working before you are pedaling ingredients aqua menthol capryliccapric triglyceride dipropylene glycol cetearyl alcohol glycerin glyceryl