Emollients are available as lotions, creams, ointments, bath oils, or soap substitutes. Mineral oil is a common ingredient in baby lotions, cold creams, ointments, and cosmetics. Soap-like detergents were not as popular as ointments and creams. The Anusol range includes creams, ointments, and the suppository form of treatment. The oily extract called Kukum butter is used in ointments and suppositories. Historically, tinctures, teas, and ointments have also been common preparations. Nitroglycerin is available in sublingual tablets, sprays, ointments, and patches. They are sometimes called "black ointments" or "drawing salves". Physicians sometimes recommend using antibiotic ointments without neomycin, such as Polysporin. In pharmaceuticals, rosin forms an ingredient in several plasters and ointments. Complications can be prevented by use of wetting and lubricating drops and ointments. Shea butter is sometimes used as a base for medicinal ointments. They are also used as an applicator for various cosmetics, ointments, and other substances. Depilatory ointments, or plasters, were known to Greek and Roman authors as "psilothrum". Polidocanol is a local anaesthetic and antipruritic component of ointments and bath additives.