Spa for the Sickly
I was out sick last week. As is my habit, I took hot baths and blasted the air conditioner, ordered tacos and orange juice from delivery services, called friends and family to proclaim my illness in a nasal, Bob Dylan-esque whine ("I just don't feeeel well!"), intermittently admired automaton parrots in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue, and passed out. The usual.
But the only thing that actually made me feel better was a beauty product: Kiss My Face Obsessively Natural Cold & Flu Room Spray. It's full of essential oils like menthol and eucalyptus that just smell curative—really clean and herbal-clinical, how you'd expect a holistic dentist's office to smell, if holistic dentists even exist (and perhaps they do). Call it psychosomatic: You spray it everywhere and breathe deep and immediately feel better. I even brought it back to work to spritz around my cubicle—the alcohol in the spray is a natural germ killer, so I'm doing everyone a favor.
—Cat Marnell, beauty assistant
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