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Emu oil, according to Cithryn and Parker, is unique in the Omegas 3, 6 and 9 that it holds all at once.

Another calming topical is emu oil.

“It’s practically the only thing in me that still works,” she added — at least without Bengay, athletic creams or Emu oil.

Adherents to emu oil, which is applied to the skin, ascribe it near mystical powers.

Some suffer from inherent marketing limitations — viscous snail mucin, emu oil made from the fatty tissue of the flightless bird — while others at least “sound sexy,” Schueller says, and are destined to be featured in big print on labels, whether or not they “have any bearing on the functionality of the product.”