“It’s a cosmetics store along the Shugou main road. Their stuff is expensive, but they give out a lot of free samples-” Yizhi almost picks up the horse oil lotion too, but Tamamori makes his decision known and he frowns as he sets the bottle back down.

“....I always assumed they’d just- rinse the oil off the horse?” Like, it’s oils from the skin, r-right? Where else is there oil in a horse? His biology classes never mentioned anything about there being oil in animals, but now that he actually thinks about it- he doesn’t want to think about it, actually. “That sounds silly now that I say it out loud. Yes, sure, there’re plenty of alternatives to that. I’m going to look up shea butter.”

He digs out his smartphone and search-engines it. “...shea butter is from the nut of the shea tree. So it’s a plant.” A relief to realise. Smooth skin is great, but… Zetian has taught him that not all beauty procedures are worth the cost of it. "What do you think?"