I've had to switch a medication I've taken for years. A compounded bioidentical HRT that was taken by mouth will via a lotion. This is so it doesn't mess up a bone-building medication taken for a while.

After a trial use I've figured out that the lotion base has a coconut ingredient (the pharmacist abbreviates a group of coconut ingredients to "SLS") resulting in scalp & hands breaking out. It sounds like it won't be possible to completely eliminate that coconut, so I'm removing it everywhere else to lessen the impact. My kitchen handsoap is a mix of Tincture of Greensoap and Dawn dish soap, where greensoap has vegetable glycerin from coconut. Instead, I'll be using a Middle Eastern bar soap from Laurel (a relative of bay laurel) grated into boiling water to dissolve it. I've grated half a bar into about 4 ounces of water to test, dispensing from a squirt bottle.

Today my handyman friend was here and we talked about the tree removal. Expen$ive, but it does need to be done before the tree falls and breaks something. That will happen soon. I might be able to tackle one of the trees and a couple of limbs before all of this happens to reduce the quote; I'll look at that over the weekend.