Recently I wrote about some of the strangely-named — and downright strange — grocery items I found in my neighborhood organic health food store. Yesterday, I wandered through what traditional stores would call their HBC section (health, beauty and cosmetics) but this store would have to call their USB section (unguents, salves and balms). Here are some of the items I found:
Candex Yeast Management System – I know yeast are living creatures, however I doubt they really need a manager. If they do, I know several from my work that I can recommend.
Super Digestaway – I’d imagine this is for people who feel their food is staying in their gastrointestinal tract for too long, and would prefer to see it expelled only moments after it is eaten.
Colon Green – I can understand the importance of an environmentally correct colon, and I hope that’s what this product delivers. If instead it actually turns your colon green, that is something I would not want, no matter how many glaciers melt as a result.
Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice Root Extract – Whatever this product is, it single-handedly broke the spellcheck function in my word processing program. It now stops on every single word and instead of offering “suggestions,” that field is simply headlined “huh?”
Intestinal Bowel Support – I hope this isn’t what it sounds like: a contraption of harnesses and trusses.
Parasite Formula – Like several of the products listed here, I’m not sure if this formula fights the title character or is comprised of it.
Gigartina Red Marine Algae (5 strains) – For those situations where four strains aren’t enough.
Dr. Ohhira’s Essential Living Oils – I’m guessing these do NOT include gasoline, motor oil, heating oil, etc.
Fucothin (concentrated Fucoxanthin) – For consumers ready to say to society “screw your impossible body images and screw your xanthin as well.”
Show Me the Whey – It’s so clever, you have to buy it, regardless if your diet is whey-deficient or whey-cool.
Hemp Shake – Not yet available at Burger King, fortunately.
Goatein (goat’s milk protein) – Stimulates those follicle-producing glands on your chin and upper lip in a way that will produce a strong, healthy goatee.
Host Defense – Something you take before going to a party thrown by your pushy neighbor?
MucoStop – If mucus has already been produced in overabundance, I wouldn’t want it to stop; I’d want it to MucoGo, into a tissue, into the garbage and into the landfill.
Super Lysine+ FizzSticks – Imagine the disappointment of young children who instead were expecting fish sticks.
Organic Motherwort – Just because “organic” and “mother” are in the name does not make up for the fact that “wort” is there too.
Quai Dong – I wouldn’t buy this product simply because I’d be afraid that a mis-type dropped the “l” from “quail.”
IP-6 and Inositol Plus Maitake and Cat’s Claw – When IP-6 and Inositol and Maitake are simply not enough, it’s time to get out the nail clippers and call Harriet in from the other room.
Bone Up – Please, please, please, let this product be for sufferers of osteoporosis and not for middle-aged men.
Ultimate Eye Formula – Again, I’m not sure if this is something that purports to help your vision, or is simply made of eyes.
Holy Basil – St. Basil was one of the group of great oriental theologians to whom, under God, we owe our right belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation, and also the chief organizer of ascetic community life in the East. When he died in 329 A.D., he was freeze-dried, ground up and sold as a spice.
Inflatrol – Can be used both on your tires and on your gut.
Calming Kit for Kids – This is an organic collection of Benadryl, vodka and cough syrup with codeine.
Confidence and Daydream Remedy – These are two different products sold for use with children. I assume the former boosts confidence and the latter suppresses daydreaming, but I could have it backwards.
Gummy Omegalicious – Another product for kids, most of whom are smart enough to see past the “gummy” and the “licious” to find that key ingredient of fish oil hiding in the middle.
Ubiquinol – It’s the herbal treatment for everything!
Guggul and Red Yeast Rice – Guggul is the resin from a tree from India. Why you would want to ruin perfectly good red yeast rice with it is beyond me.
Ditch the Itch Bar – This label is pasted on the product sideways and I originally read it as “Ditch the Bitch Bar,” believing it to be some kind of soap that would repel an estranged loved one. That actually sounds like a more useful product than this anti-itching formula. You can relieve an itch by scratching it with your fingernails but you can’t … Wait a minute, I guess you could.
Superhazel – Sounds like a mash-up of two sitcoms from the 1960s, where the sassy maid and the suburban witch become one, and madcap antics ensue.
Licefreeee! Lice Killing Hair Gel – For those kids who want to be fashion-forward and parasite-free at the same time.
Bone, Flesh and Cartilage – Are these things enhanced if you take this product, or is that what it’s made of? We need to know.
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