I was at Dischem this w/e and I'm still staggered by the sheer amount of BS on the shelves. As a male I don't end up browsing the skincare isles all that much, but Majin asked me for a kind of skin oil she's used in the past for blemishes. I was stunned.... I had to search high-and-low to find a couple of bottles that seemed to have any kind of real benefit at all. The recipe seems to be:
1. Take weird herb X.
2. Grind it into some moisturiser.
3. Market it with "Increases wellness".
4. Optionally slap on a "Homeopathic" label somewhere.
5. PROFIT!
Isle after isle of BS medicine, almost everything I found was marked as herbal, homeopathic, or both. With no way to discern the real from the fake. I came to a complete halt when I noticed the "Tea tree" section. Now Tea Tree is a potent anti-bacterial but the sheer crazyness of the products got me: Tea Tree chewing sticks, skin cream, tea, and .... TOOTHPASTE?! What kind of super-bacteria are we trying to create here?
Disinfectants have their place but I wouldn't DRINK the stuff! I certainly wouldn't brush my teeth with Dettol and much less would I brush it with Tea Tree. That stuff is VILE anyway! EWW!
"Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground, Silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they make a club and beat their brother down. How they survive, so misguided, is a mystery. Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here" - Tool