We're Chica

Hi! Elise and Cassidy here, co-founders of Chica, and we get it that periods can be a real pain. Whether your period is a small nuisance or a major disruption to your life, we’re on a mission to make periods less of a pain, one menustrator, one month, one Chica at a time.

Before we started Chica, our periods were probably a lot like yours. Each month (or however frequently our period chose to show up) brought unpleasantries like bloating and cramping, nausea and digestive issues, heavy bleeding, clusters of chin pimples and big ugly zits (you know the kind). Ugh.

In some months things were so bad, we put things we had planned to do… fun things… on hold, just because we had our period. 

What we didn’t realize when we struggled with our periods as teenagers, was that a natural, time-tested, holistic solution was right under our noses.

Co-founder Cassidy’s father, Marco Lam, LAc, MSOM, had been using an ancient blend of Chinese herbs with great success in his acupuncture clinic, helping women balance their hormones and ease their periods. He suggested we try it, and Chica was born. 

So if you’ve been told, “that’s just how it is,” or “there’s nothing you can really do about it,” or “maybe you should just get on the pill,” we can promise you that that just isn’t true.  You CAN get your life back from your period, and Chica can help.