Deathbed Beauty: Huiles et Balmes Alpine SOS Balm
I'm sick: fever, headache, endless congestion, and what the Mueller family collectively refers to as "the Doc Holiday cough." Misery. Much excellent advice has been given by my colleagues on how to feel better when you're ill here and here, but I would like to add something to the canon:
1) Find a willing delegate to go to the store to purchase one large box of Kleenex (it MUST be the aloe-infused, triple-ply kind, the fanciest tissue that money can buy), and one bottle each of Pom, Odwalla tangerine juice, and seltzer.
2) Mix them (the juices, not the Kleenex) together in a glass, in roughly a 1:2:3 ratio.
3) Dive under a blanket, clutching your@#$%tail in one hand and your lotiony tissues in the other, and drink/blow your nose with abandon.
Now here is the crucial gilding-the-lily thing to do: If you're not yet sick and have the opportunity to preplan for a cold (something I've never been able to do, but still), place an order for the Heidi-ish, organic Huiles et Balmes Alpine SOS Balm-which is made with arnica and other like-minded plants that heal enthusiastically blown noses (and bruises, scratches, etc.) with uncanny speed and smells exactly like an herb garden (the scent is somewha
t irrelevant if you're stuffy, but you'll appreciate it when you're well again). By all means, proceed with real medicine too-saline solutions, bath soaks, Sudafed, whatever works-but I assure you: The pulpy citrus, the ruby-red Pom, and the tickle of the seltzer, experienced in tandem with the high-thread-count glamour-tissues and Alpine miracle ointment, will go a long way toward mending you psychologically. Not to mention you'll be full of antioxidants and won't have a red nose when all is said and done.
--Cristina Mueller, Senior Beauty Editor
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