June 3, 2005

It's the Balm

Girl Balm

Okay, Drama Queen: You’re crying at commercials. Your face looks like a polka-dot bikini. While inhaling obscene amounts of Chubby Hubby, you decide you’re a total train wreck. Period.

Period?

Clearly your monthly visitor is to blame for much ado — again.

Fortunately Amy Galper, a New York-based aromatherapist and shiatsu therapist, has created Girl Balm to ease menstrual pain and even some of the histrionics associated with it. Just rub the menthol ointment on your lower belly and wait for pain and anxiety to subside. It’s made from hemp seed oil, jojoba, unrefined beeswax, and essential oils of clary sage, rose geranium, gingerroot, and black pepper, which supposedly encourage hormonal balance and circulation.

Fact or fiction? If you have the wherewithal to contemplate the question, you need read no further.

For the rest of you, slather on as much as you want, as frequently as you want. Relax and pamper yourself a little.

And teach your monthly visitor to be a better houseguest. Period.

Available online at buddhanose.com.