Healing property of wool?

[Simplex]

...."Penaten-Creme", a cream which used e.g. Wools-Grease, Hamamelis and Zinc,had been granted a german patent for Max Riese as early as in 1904. The recent ingredients (as required by the applicable laws) seems to be listed here (I don't know whether they still use sheeps wool grease as in the original recipe, you can't tell from the list of ingedient IIRC) :
http://www.penaten.de/produkte/R/3/8/penaten-creme.htm
click on : "Inhaltsstoffe" (>In German)

Greez

Simplex

The brand name is suggesting "roman roots" IMHO.