I’ll admit it: non-prescription medication can be fun. Yet it’s a whole lot more fun when mixed with booze put in brightly coloured packaging and given an almost-too-cute makeover. Help Remedies is an ingenious meld of pharmaceuticals and clever marketing and design that makes the most mundane of maladies seem attractive. The creators “hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible”, and with their simple statements and solutions combined in a compostable container, they’re certainly on target.

One of the most appealing features is their remedy for boredom: a set of standard quandaries with humorous (and animated) answers that can be accessed from their website. Etiquette even gets a look in, addressing potential social faux pas such as which fork to use and a tool to assist if you’ve forgotten someone’s name. See, good things do come in small packages.

You can buy Help Remedies products here.

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