diff --git a/lib/cheerio.js b/lib/cheerio.js
index 809e0ac78bc01a98675b43a771140e9f35cd4c71..23c565ad94ec15dd2e7f8e605b1bb849ef6769bd 100644
--- a/lib/cheerio.js
+++ b/lib/cheerio.js
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@
 /**
  * Module dependencies.
  */
-var cheerio = require('cheerio');
+// Ghost patch: cheerio's main entry eagerly loads parse5, undici and the whatwg
+// encoding stack (~20MB RSS per process) none of which juice uses - the `xml`
+// option below sets _useHtmlParser2, so parsing goes through htmlparser2 either
+// way. cheerio/slim is that same htmlparser2 path without the unused baggage.
+var cheerio = require('cheerio/slim');
 var utils = require('./utils');
 
 var cheerioLoad = function(html, options, encodeEntities) {
diff --git a/lib/inline.js b/lib/inline.js
index 083b8c58eb90184d0190cd0e3361a39638e4981b..492d0230dd2a3ee179359e3027f73cc7257023fe 100644
--- a/lib/inline.js
+++ b/lib/inline.js
@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ module.exports = function makeJuiceClient(juiceClient) {
               ? decode(styleAttributeValue)
               : styleAttributeValue;
             var cssText = '* { ' + cssStyleAttributeValue + ' } ';
-            addProps(utils.parseCSS(cssText)[0][1], new utils.Selector('<style>', true));
+            // Ghost patch: parseCSS drops rules with no declarations, so a style
+            // attribute with none (e.g. `style=";"`) has no rule to read
+            var styleAttributeRule = utils.parseCSS(cssText)[0];
+            if (styleAttributeRule) {
+              addProps(styleAttributeRule[1], new utils.Selector('<style>', true));
+            }
           }
 
           // store reference to an element we need to compile style="" attr for
@@ -158,7 +163,9 @@ module.exports = function makeJuiceClient(juiceClient) {
         // go through the properties
         function addProps(style, selector) {
           for (var i = 0, l = style.length; i < l; i++) {
-            if (style[i].type == 'property') {
+            // Ghost patch: mensch parses input like `a{b}` into a property with no
+            // value, which would throw on value.match below
+            if (style[i].type == 'property' && typeof style[i].value === 'string') {
               var name = style[i].name;
               var value = style[i].value;