[embodiment] in which I appear to be nobody's target market

I have been slowly and suspiciously Learning About Skincare over the past few years. Special face soap the first did indeed seem to work quite well but I was Aggrieved when I realised it contained Microplastics. So I finished that bottle and then (... eventually) got around to asking for recommendations for non-plastic-containing Special Face Soap, and got pointed at the various CeraVe offerings, which have also been working well! And while I was at it I was recommended some non-my-suncream and non-E45 moisturisers.

I've now been using those for long enough to realise how much background sensory input I was getting from uncomfortably dry face skin, and how much better I feel when it's not that sad. I have also discovered that the trichotillomania (directed at my Rubbish Facial Hairs) is hugely reduced by Lots Of Moisturising, which I absolutely would not have predicted but which does make sense and which is very welcome.

BUT ALAS it was not until AFTER I had Bought Some Special Moisturisers that I thought to check their ingredients lists, which! contain! things like "polyacrylamide" and "miscellaneous crosspolymers" including "Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer"! Which I have failed to dig up data on the biodegradability of, but of which I am Suspicious (with some basis although I haven't actually yet dug through the ECHA and UNEP source reports). But!!! apparently the intersection of "I would prefer my various unguents to not contain poorly-biodegradable plastics" with "I'm not actually scared of chemical names in general" and "I'm fine with plastic bottles so long as I can recycle them" and "a minimum of added scent, please" is... not, as far as I can tell, particularly considered one it's commercially advantageous to exploit!

And so I am reduced, probably, to gritting my teeth and spending a lot of time reading ingredients lists while I attempt to get my head around what all the various unguents are even intended to do (current reading: LandysChemist and ejollify), grumbling all the while about exactly how niche my interests apparently are...