
If your medicine cabinet looks anything like mine, you open it to find half-empty boxes of adhesive bandages that are never the size you need, an abundance of cough drops, a dangerously low supply of pimple patches, an extra tube of toothpaste, and definitely not the one thing you’re actually looking for. You might not only be in need of a reorg, but a restock as well.
Not all health, grooming, and medical items are things you use on a daily basis, so it’s easy to overlook them when you’re making a trip to the drugstore. Here, we’ve rounded up some Wirecutter-approved medicine cabinet essentials that you’ll be happy to have on hand when you need them most.