Mini Chill Relaxation Natural Stress Relief

A Fair & Honest Energy Drink Review

Mini Chill Relaxation Natural Stress Relief Retail Package Description

The bottle looks like a brochure for Ambien or a magazine add for diet pills. Once I read what the product does though, that's not a bad thing. The colors are a calming blue/green combo with a hint of purple serenity. There is a graph paper sort of background, and a curve, which I assume graphically depicts a brain wave. The text on the front reads, "mini (in blue and turned vertically) CHILL (in all caps and faded blue to dark blue) relaxation (in purple)". Below the name, "Natural Stress Relief" in blue, and in a green circle, "Sugar Free" in white text. At the bottom, in white text, "Function: Mood and Focus [line break] Great Anything [middle dot] Non-Drowsy [middle dot] Caffeine Free. Then at the very bottom, in a band of green across the bottom, "2 fl oz (60ml) Dietary Supplement". On the back, one of the most thorough explanation of a shot (energy or otherwise) ever printed in tiny, hard-to-read text on a tiny 2 oz. shot bottle, "Finally, a healthy way to relax and feel good. Whether at home, on the town, or doing work. Mini Chill contain Relarian, an all natural patent pending blend of amino acids and herbs. Designed by doctors for fast-acting, long-lasting mood enhancement and focus." Since this isn't the same as every 2 oz. energy shot, I'll also include the directions, "Shake well then drink entire contents to enjoy fast-acting, long-lasting relaction and mental focus. Unused contents require no refrigeration. Discard after 72 hours. For best results drink on an empty stomach." Then there's a caution, "If you are on medication, consult with a physician before sonuming. Do not use if operating heavy machinery, pregnant, nursing or under 18 years of age. Limit use to 2 sergins/bottles per day."

Caffeine Addict's Mini Chill Relaxation Natural Stress Relief Review

How do I know Mini Chill Relaxation works? I just happened to enjoy one a few hours before a series of catastrophic events that would normally have sent me into a fit of mental rage and despair. Shortly after consuming mini chill relaxation, I was surfing the web for information about Rodney Mullen, the greatest skateboarder of all time. I hit a site which contained no relevant information, but in the top left corner of my screen and nearly unnoticeable pop-up came up, followed by an error (which to me appeared to be an error resulting from some exploit within early HTML 5 browser support). The error, like most, was cryptic, but some of the verbiage led me to believe HTML 5 might be involved. Within a few minutes a "virus scanner" popped up and started "scanning" my computer. Let me start by saying, in nearly 20 total years of computer use, this was the first known infection I've had on a computer I owned that was a result of my computer use. As a former "IT guy", I know to check systems administrator message boards about this, as they share information with one another openly, and they have a huge group of users to support. The exploit was described as installing the virus if: 1. You close the window. 2. You click anywhere on the window 3. (Unconfirmed by this admin, but speculated) if you change focus from the window. Normally, I would call this voodoo, because I've heard users say 1,000 times, "I didn't do anything, it just installed itself". So, as a seasoned "IT guy", I wanted to chastise myself for negligent computer use.

I don't remember the specific name of this scareware/ransomware, but it behaved like "Personal Antivirus". Let me say that fortunately, I keep all my data on my non-system drive and backup my OS with Acronis True Image regularly. Also, I run task manager at startup, and have it minimized to the tray.

Here's the course of events, fake scanner, which I'm assuming is the tiny firefox window that appeared to contain nothing and couldn't see pops up, error changes focus from that window, virus installs. The virus sets registry keys to make .exe a safe filetype and to install unsigned software. It also sets up a proxy so IE (the only app that will run) will only show their "buy our crap" page. Somewhere this virus intercepts any application start, terminates the app, and reports it's infected by a virus (which normally would make removing it an enormous pain). Fortunately, since task manager was already running on my computer, I just noted the .exe name that was eating my resources and stopped it. Now, I removed the virus for my edification, but immediately thereafter re-imaged. Many forums referenced Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, which I installed, but did not detect this virus. The virus installs itself with a random exe name, so it's pretty easy to see it's out of place...if you can find a way to stop it, since regedit reports it's infected by a virus. If you restart your computer (and don't have a second computer), you're pretty much hosed, IE is all that runs, and the proxy is set to them.

All this to say, I was working on a tight project deadline, and had no time for this nonsense. I'd normally be furious at this, but that wasn't the end of it all. After a reimage, and reinstalling some updates since the last image, the computer just restarts (unacceptable in my book, and has never otherwise happened in over a year of using this PC). I assume it's something I updated and forgot about, so I flashed the bios and installed some updated drivers. Restart, "RAID found no bootable device". Oh, things were not looking up, and again, normally the only thing going through my mind would be "Hulk smash!". After some prayer, Mini Chill working overtime, and some calm reasoning, I found a "Extra RAID controller" setting in the bios, set to "enabled". After disabling this, the original RAID controller functioned as expected, and the PC booted. I was standing in relief next to the desk where my computer is turned out toward the room (for max cooling, so it's not just blowing hot air into the wall and trapping it), and I see something moving periodically in the case...immediately, I assume it's a mouse or a small unicorn. Turns out, the power supply fan isn't working properly, it's only turning every now and again. "Oh bother", I thought to myself. A muted response compared to throwing the whole thing at the tardy pizza delivery man, like I'd normally do. Mini Chill gave me the relaxation (and perhaps anti-energy, since I'd normally misuse that energy for the destruction of computer peripherals) and piece of mind to walk away from this problem, knowing I had work to do, and get a restful night sleep, and attack the problem refreshed the following day. No small task for someone who would usually huff and puff my way through "fixing" the problem (meanwhile breaking 5 other costly things because I was angry and impatient).

Couple this frustration with Valentine's day, which for me, a month after a divorce I wanted no part of, was figuratively like being disemboweled with a padlock. Mini chill, and a great deal of prayer brought me through this difficult time, and with a minimum of mental duress.

The taste is mildly fruity and herbal. It's not offensive, but I wouldn't describe it as pleasant.

I would have happily paid $3 for this product's affects on the previously described day. Not sure I'd be inclined to do it every day, but it doesn't hurt I have a few more samples in the pantry, in case such another day is on the horizon.

*note: sodium was not listed on the product, so we are listing 0. This does not mean there's 0 mg, it means we don't know.

Energy Junkie's Mini Chill Relaxation Natural Stress Relief Review

First order of business, this isn't an energy drink. In fact, it's our first review of products from the new wave of "anti-energy drinks"/"anti-energy shots". Why are we reviewing it? Well, they sent it to us, and we like free stuff. Also, Jason puts a lot of focus on "energy drinks" that increase focus. Since Jason is a software developer, primarily, "spaz out and punch your mom in the face" energy drinks are of less importance than a product that can provide mental acuity after hours of grinding away at javascript code that will load a picture of an overflowed toilet in the background, while the user reads about some faux content, then replace all the browser content with vile fecal foul imagery. So, while this has some ingredients known to make you sleepy, I didn't experience sleepiness at all. What I experienced was a calm, stress-free afternoon, where I didn't feel like everything on my list of things to do was secretly conspiring against me. In addition, I felt like my brain wasn't handicapped by feeling like whatever I didn't do "right now" was going to be forgotten about and come back to haunt me in three months. While that may not seem particularly energizing, when your brain is weighted down by such nonsense all the time, it's a immense feeling of relief and almost energizing to not feel so stressed and overwhelmed. Again, this product didn't make me physically sleepy, tired or groggy at all, but I imagine it could affect everyone differently.

If you're a traditional energy shot drinker, you may initially find this drink bland. Since they aren't covering up inane amounts of caffeine, which is bitter like aspirin powder, the drink is neither bitter, or masked with tablespoons of artificial sweetener. The result, a very mild, albeit herbal, taste experience. Speaking of herbal, the aroma is certainly herbal, and smelling it before I tasted gave me an immediate negative (flashback to the Steven Seagal Energy Drink experience). Luckily, I sucked it up, because the flavor was mild, and didn't make me want to vomit at all, and the positive affects were noteworthy.

Then comes the bad news, Mini Chill Relaxation shot retails for $3/each. Their website speaks nondescriptly of getting discounts as much at 1/2 if you join their "chill club", but the signup page reads more like a run-of-the-mill newsletter with (likely scant) special offers and (probably frequent and irrelevant) events updates and press releases. At $1.50, these would be an exceptional value. If you are frequently "stressed", and live "high on the hog", $3 may be an just your price point for some afternoon piece of mind. For me, anything that cost more than ramen noodles, and has fewer calories and no caffeine is highway robbery.

Jason has decided that for this review "energy" in our rating will be "mental clarity/alertness", which he considers a form of energy, and I can see it, if I tilt my head just so.