I have eczema, and it's especially bad in the winter in Colorado. Aveeno's Skin Relief Body Wash is what dermatologists are always recommending, and it works well enough, but I go through it like crazy, which is why this three-pack is appealing; it's maybe half the price of buying the equivalent volume at the drugstore. I try to avoid buying on Amazon when possible, but it's not as if Walgreen's — where I'd otherwise buy it — is a model corporate citizen; you can Google it, they agreed not to donate to politicians who contested the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory, and then they went ahead and did it anyway, $25,000 to members of the so-called Sedition Caucus. I could, I suppose, avoid Walgreen's and go to the locally owned drugstore, as long as I get there before they close, which is difficult to do, but then, I'd still be buying a product from Johnson & Johnson, which reportedly knew for decades that its baby powder caused cancer and sold it anyway. What is there to be done, by any one of the eight billion of us on our own? I looked up "homemade hypoallergenic soap" online, and the first result, though labeled "How to Make Bar Soap," linked to a blog post whose author acknowledged that she actually tends to just buy soap, melt it down, and mix it with some additional ingredients: "From what I understand, to make soap from scratch it requires a chemical reaction using lye," she wrote. "Now I don’t believe it’s actually all that hard, anything requiring me to wear safety goggles and rubber gloves is just not my jam."Johnson & Johnson gave to the Sedition Caucus, too — $22,500, I looked it up. Amazon gave $565,000. This is the world we live in — the world we've brought into existence. This is the world my child will inherit, and his descendants, and yours, too. I apologize. I'm as guilty as anyone, by the logic of my principled friend S., who believes it to be immoral to buy from Amazon — as guilty as the railroad barons of the twentieth century, or the media barons of the twenty-first — and if you’re reading this and considering buying the Aveeno three-pack here too, then, well, by the same logic, I guess you are, too.