Chapter 48

  Origanum, Lavandula, Matricaria, with a base of Aloe Vera oil - high concentration single formula strong 'essence' oil.

  The above 'refined' oils were all mixed together in a small brown bottle of five milliliters, and then handed over to someone who was itching and painful. "Don't touch the good skin. The acne gel on your hand and this oil, either one is fine, you can use them alternately."

  "Uh, I think my acne cream has expired, so I threw it away..." Pang Hua confessed with embarrassment.

  Chen Huaizheng handed over the partially used one to him. "Use it up, three to five times a day, until it's all used up."

  "It seems like it's not the one you asked me to buy."

  "The effect is similar, but cheaper." Cheaper by half. At that time, writing that brand was purely to annoy his mother's nouveau riche attitude. "You can read a book, chat with someone, otherwise you'll always be thinking about it and feel uncomfortable."

  "He's already suffering so much!!"

  "By the way, how was your chemical engineering exam?"

  "I'm not allowed to repeat my student status, I can only take courses on the job. The tuition is a bit expensive, but I can choose my own direction, which is pretty good."

  "Fine chemicals?"

  "Uh-huh."

  "Have you thought of a topic for your graduation thesis?"

  "Of course, I've thought it through. I also plan to conduct a real experiment, and I found two classmates who are similar to me, using the oil you gave me. Now I'm watching what you use, and then I'll buy it for them too... One of them is also a graduate student in chemistry, with good German skills, so he can translate many original texts. With him around, I don't worry about not being able to get my degree in chemistry. By the way, that Swiss product you've been looking for was also found by him, and the instructions were translated by him too."

  It turns out that all the real academic tyrants are in the basic science majors! "I'll go adjust some more. Hmm, you can let them directly smear their whole face."

  "Can it be used on the whole face?" This is so effortless! It saves everything.

  "Won't die. At most grow more."

  “……”

  "Oh, by the way, I told you to buy that facial cleanser last time, divide it among them. Anyway, you also bought several tubes."

  "That...my classmate thinks your recommendation is too cheap." Actually, he doesn't care, as long as it's useful.

  "Let them buy Biotherm's professional men's products themselves then, it's only twenty or thirty dollars, shouldn't be more than forty."

  Dollars! "Alright, I'll go talk to them."

  Pang Hua's face floated with a rare 'sly' smile, but paired with a face full of colorful 'colors', and transparent somewhat reflective 'ointment'... very funny.

  "Drink tea." Chen Xuan pointed at the teacup.

  "Oh." He took a big gulp - the medicinal taste unique to Jin Yin 'Hua' left him speechless for a moment.

  "Jin Yin Hua clears heat and detoxifies, dispels fire, and can also enhance resistance to viruses." Chen Huai-sheng rattled off a whole bunch.

  "This taste is really——not good at all!"

  "Good medicine tastes bitter." Chen Xuan also poured himself a cup from the same teapot and drank, "Get used to it."

  She poured hot water again, "But I still think that your acne might be related to hormone levels, so you'd better not use some good men's products, I'm afraid there are natural hormones in them, which will aggravate your acne."

  "Well, washing your face shouldn't be a problem, right?"

  "Probably, facial cleansers don't stay on the face for long, so I guess it's no big deal."

  “……”

  “……”

  As we chatted, it was almost twelve o'clock. The KFC bag had long been cold, and the "meat" inside tasted slightly off; the acne stickers had also absorbed, forming dull marks one after another.

  "Does it still itch?"

  "It doesn't itch. It just feels a bit tight."

  "It's okay. You have to wash your hands clean before touching your face - did you buy the disinfectant hand sanitizer I told you to last time?"

  "…Wait, why don't we go to the supermarket?" Pang Hua now desperately hoped to find something else to shift his attention. The past few hours had been unbearably uncomfortable, and even though it didn't itch anymore, there was still a strange feeling.

  "Alright!" Chen Xuan thought for a moment and realized that he also needed to buy some things, so he found a shopping bag, brought his credit card and some cash.

  "Want to go restock?" Pang Hua asked in a flattering tone.

  Chen Hua looked at him and asked, "Have you used up all the mouthwash?"

  "Ah——it's all gone! It's all gone!" Even if there wasn't any, I'd still have some! Luckily, I brushed my teeth this morning and had eaten a few mouthfuls of breakfast before going out the door. I ran back to use mouthwash to clean up, afraid of being scolded! What a close call!

  Looking at Chen Huaisheng again, she dresses plainly, almost to the point of being shabby, never wears colorful makeup, but no matter if it's summer or winter, morning or afternoon, her body and breath are always fresh and clean. Her nose doesn't shine with oil, her hair is shiny and smooth, and there's even a faint fragrance.

  Oh, most importantly, her entire plain face only has a healthy rosy glow, without any blemishes or scars.

  "What about facial soap?"

  "Ah, it seems like it's almost gone." He not only washed his face and hands with that seemingly expensive soap, but also occasionally washed his socks and even his hair... um, isn't that a bit wasteful?

  "......I see. Not facial cleanser, right?"

  "Whatever!" He wasn't happy about spending thirty dollars on facial cream! Thirty yuan would have been just fine.

  Chen Huaisheng ignored him and ran back to find a 20-liter double-shoulder backpack. "You take it."

  Women's terrifying shopping skills!

  Pang Hua suddenly felt some regret.

  ……

  Chen Hua didn't let him carry too many heavy things. She picked out some not-too-cheap stuff, including two bottles of light perfume and a set of body lotion. Together with the two bags from the supermarket... it added up to 3,000! Although they paid separately this time, Pang Hua still admired Chen's habit of not checking the bill details when swiping her card - as a result, he himself also got used to not looking at the details later on, because that amount should be remembered in one's mind, rather than being clutched onto like a piece of paper when paying.

  "This taste is not bad." Pang Hua curiously sprayed a few times in the air, and as a result, he got a big white eye.

  "I was going to sell it anyway." Chen Huan walked back and forth in the misty air with a bad temper.

  "...don't you spray it on your wrist?" That's how it's supposed to be used, right?

  Chen Huaisheng was too lazy to care about it.

  The boss's wife packed bags while explaining the usage of several perfumes.

  "... actually wrists are more for testing fragrance."

  Chen Huaicheng added, "Only the most concentrated fragrance 'essence' is used on pulse points, such as the neck, waist, knee bends, and ankles. Light fragrances like these two I'm holding, and men's more commonly used lightest eau de cologne can be sprayed on clothes or hair." Of course, spraying it on a bra is an interesting method that shouldn't be shared with men.

  She demonstrated a spray technique again, leaving Pang Hua with his eyes wide open in shock.

  "Do you want to learn perfume manufacturing? It's all chemistry."

  "No! I've been working with several classmates on a research project about the 'refined' components of oil, enough to write several master's theses."

  "Alright, help me analyze the formula. In a few days I'll give you the sample. Only one milliliter, can't be more than that, because ten milliliters would cost over a hundred."

  "It's easy for women to make money." Pang Hua muttered under her breath.

  Chen Huaizheng turned his head and looked at him, forcing out a cold smile. "Excuse me, are you 'female'? Have you changed your sex?"

  “……”

  After checking her notes for half a minute, Chen Huaiying opened the two bottles of shampoo she had "wholesale" purchased and added some domestic lavender, rosemary, pine needle, ginger and peppermint essential oils.

  "Use this to wash your hair." She handed over a bottle. Alas, if I had known there was such a strong labor force, I would have bought more cheap ones. As long as you add 'refined' oil, it becomes good stuff. The cheaper the base is, the better.

  Pang Hua saw her hand movements with the oil and casually asked, "What's the effect of this?" Because they were obviously using the same formula, which was rare.

  "Exfoliate, nourish, and prevent hair loss. The price of ginseng 'essence' oil is almost as expensive as Bulgarian rose oil, I couldn't bear to buy it, will use it when the online store isn't losing money. But the 40-50 commonly used ones are all stocked up."

  “……”

  Chen Hua Sheng pressed Pang Hua to wash her face with new facial cleanser, and reapply the acne gel. Before that, take a photo as a base. "I want to record the process." If he wasn't so uncooperative, there should have been results already.

  "Will it be put online?"

  "Just release it locally. Apart from you and me, no one knows who this is."

  Pang Hua 'touched' 'touched' his nose, and as a result, Chen Huisheng discovered his poor nose.

  "Hehe, I've got a new trick, and it's just right for your nose."

  She pulled out a terrifying tool with one end being long and pointed, and the other end being flat and round, which made Pang Hua's eyes widen in shock; then came disinfection, first by fire roasting and then by wine 'refining', no matter how you looked at it, it was all making people feel uneasy.

  "It seems I should go buy an ultraviolet disinfection cabinet."

  "...She is already like a 'female' witch, must she also be a science-type 'female' witch?"

  Chen Huaixing didn't care about Pang Hua's thoughts. She used a cotton pad to apply hot water to his nasal wing area for a moment, then used the flat head of the tool to locate the 'hair' pore and pressed it down.

  Pain... but Pang Hua didn't dare cry out.

  "It's great, this pore needle is very useful." Chen Haochen didn't squeeze out a single blackhead or whitehead, and just wiped it with a cotton pad soaked in alcohol. "It's just that I couldn't let you take a good look at the results... Hmm, during this time you've been cleaning your face quite diligently, so it's not too serious."

  This is even more terrifying than a horror movie!

  "It's great, some things that stickers can't get out also come out."

  After finishing, Chen Huan poured the aloe vera juice that had been chilled for a while onto a cotton pad and applied it to his nose.

  Pang Hua was so startled that he almost cried out.

  Chen Huaicheng looked at the sharp long thorn on the other end and hesitated. "Try it."

  This time, first wine 'refine', then fire disinfection, but because did not consider the powder needle circle's good thermal conductivity, almost scalded her fingers.

  "Alright, I'm here to rescue you. Don't move!"

  She grabbed a bottle of cotton balls and picked up two more, poking through several yellow pus-filled pimples on Pang Hua's face.

  Does it hurt?

  "It's okay."

  After disinfecting cotton balls, it is pharmaceutical-grade tea tree oil, followed by erythromycin ointment.

  Alright, she is not a 'female' witch but a barefoot doctor!

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  Author's personal recommendation: After countless failed lessons, the author only found that za and Chirushi (Kao Yuan Shi) acne gel are effective. The former has the highest cost-effectiveness, but neither is suitable for closed comedones.