Walk through the aisles of Walgreens, Bath and Body Works, or Nordstrom. There is an entire area dedicated to skin care. Bottles and bottles of moisturizer, foot creams, make up remover, lip balms, face wash, zit prevention, zit treatment, suntan lotion, tanning oil, facial masks, hair remover, hair bleach and probably hundreds more I’ve never heard of.

One thing you’ll never find for girls is plain Skin Cream. It doesn’t exist. Apparently, skin is different depending on where it is on your body. God forbid you use foot creme as face cream. Don’t even try using your day moisturizer at night. Body lotion doubling as suntan lotion is just about as crazy as using shower gel as shampoo (I know, it’s weird). And then there’s lotions for dry skin, oily skin, acne-scarred skin. I haven’t even mentioned scents, SPFs, and brands.

To men, skin is skin. Moisturizer is moisturizer. The stuff I put on my hands is good enough for my face. And you girls may be thinking, “Noo!! You’ll clog up all your pores and you’ll break out!” But the irony is that you girls break out too. So either you’re being screwed by the Skin Care industry and overpaying for dozens of different creams, or humans are meant to have zits. I’ll stick to my one, $20 bottle of regular, unscented moisturizer.