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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Caroline Brien

Best CBD body balms to help ease muscle aches and inflammation

Increasingly championed for its soothing, anti-inflammatory powers, balms based around CBD are becoming a go-to bathroom staple.

Although few detailed scientific studies are available as yet, CBD – short for cannabidiol - is popping up in a wealth of beauty and well-being products, from face cream for acne to ingestible drops to calm the mind. But where it seems most likely to prove beneficial is used as a body balm, helping with aches and pains - be it cramps, a sore back or a pulled muscle.

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