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Brief: I believe this product stands as one of the top baby shampoo options available at a reasonable price. It has obtained the EWG's certification for safety compliance, containing only a single moderate hazard ingredient. While there are reports from the EWG associating Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice with potential carcinogenic risks, it's worth noting that most commercial aloe vera products, including skincare and topical applications, utilize the clear gel from within the aloe vera leaf, excluding the outer part containing aloin. Manufacturers typically employ processes that remove aloin to undetectable levels. However, parents who harbor concerns regarding the presence of Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice may opt for alternative products. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend this product.
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Ingredients: Water, Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate, Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate, Glycerin, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice*, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil*, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil*, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract*, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract*, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract*, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Sodium Chloride, 1,2-Hexanediol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Dehydroacetic Acid, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Citric Acid *Organic.
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Typical ingredients description and side effects

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• Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice
  • Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice is widely used in skincare products, including baby shampoos, due to its soothing, hydrating, and anti-inflammatory properties. It is generally considered safe for topical use.
  • However, it's worth noting that certain parts of the aloe vera plant contain a compound called aloin, which has been linked to potential carcinogenic effects when ingested in large amounts. Most commercial aloe vera products, including skincare products and topical applications, are made from the clear gel found inside the aloe vera leaf, not the outer part of the leaf where aloin is found. The process used to prepare aloe vera for commercial use generally removes aloin to non-detectable levels.
  • Potential Side Effects:
    • Skin Irritation: Aloe vera is usually soothing, but some individuals may experience skin irritation or allergic reactions, such as redness, rash, burning or itching sensations, especially with frequent use.
    • Allergic Reactions: Rarely, some individuals may have a more severe allergic reaction to aloe vera. This could result in symptoms like swelling, severe redness, or difficulty breathing.
  • EWG Skin Grade: 3

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The grading system used by EWG in the Skin Deep database is as follows:
1 to 2: Low hazard
3 to 6: Moderate hazard
7 to 10: High hazard

Back in the stone ages, a bad start in a game of tiles with bonuses, meant getting stuck on land that was of very poor quality and would greatly impede your empire development. The canonical example would be getting stuck on an ice floe around the arctic circle in Civ II. There's no food or resources on those tiles for the most part, so the growth potential of your first few cities, is just crippled compared to civs starting in more productive regions of the world.
Nowadays I think thanks to recent Civ games, a lot of bonuses are tied up in building similar classes of improvements adjacent to each other, to gain multiplicative effects on that class of improvement. The examples below are taken from Galactic Civilizations III. In this case the pictoral artwork and available tiles for a homeworld planet are constant, but the distribution of features on the planet is random. Not all features are equally worthwhile, and some are a hindrance. These are generally a consequence of tile adjacency bonus systems, and will apply to any such system in any game. Just remember that "ability to make something adjacent" is always the thing of precious value.
In GC3 these starts are typically so bad, due to the generator being so random, that I find myself starting games over and over and over again. To get a good start, much like we used to reroll characters for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons when I was a kid. Unlike AD&D, the consequence in a 4X game isn't just whether you feel stronger or think you'll do better. There's actual demonstrable wasted hours of real world game time, when one gets stuck with a bad start. This is because the earliest decisions of a 4X game are most impactful.
So I'd rather waste 15 minutes rerolling planets at the beginning of a game, than 2 to 3 hours or longer trying to recover from a poor start. Actually it can be quite a bit worse than that: I can look back at a 17 hour game that I'm bored to death of, and realize it had a lot to do with not getting a good homeword at the very beginning of the game. Was half of my play time, wasted time?
I found myself doing so many rerolls this morning, that I decided I'd finally write this up, as to why each of these rolls is bad. I'm in some kind of endgame with GC3 where I'm very close to being done with it, despite having never finished a game or beaten it. I'm tired of my life being wasted to the tune of 16 to 19 hours at a go on this stuff, before I get totally bored and quit. It's been really bad compared to most other 4X I've played, and this adjacency bonus system is the core of the tedium.
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an actually ok start
Wouldn't you know the 1st screenshot after I start writing the post, undermines my thesis. :-) I swear there was roll after roll after bad roll that prompted me to get started on this. This planet is ok because there are broad areas of empty space to build on. Notably, this homeworld has no farmland on it whatsoever. You'll see later why that's a good thing.
Remember, being able to put stuff adjacent to each other, is where all systemic profit comes from. The special features are not really in the way, and they are not terribly redundant or mutually conflicting. If a tile has bonuses for multiple categories you can't typically avail yourself of both bonuses, because improvements tend to be for 1 category only. So in case of a conflict in an adjacency system, you have to make a choice, and various starts can force you into a choice. This is, in essence, getting a lot less bonuses per tile than you might otherwise get.
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choked with farmland
This is the kind of planet that keeps me starting the game over and over and over again. Notice how much of the planet's surface is covered with farmland. Farmland isn't something you build other things on top of in this game; you only build farms on them. Yes, you could destroy the farms and build something else instead. But that also means you're sacrificing "bonuses given at the beginning", whatever budget of valuable stuff was allocated for your homeworld.
In an adjacency bonus system, unless an abundant resource like this is tremendously valuable at the beginning of the game, this would always be a bad roll, in any game. There isn't any room left on the planet for other stuff. Most of the planet has you considering and probably giving up "farm related bonuses". And farms, in this game, are not valuable to homeworld creation. Not in this quantity. You might need like 2 farms to build a city on your homeworld. You don't need to build a city immediately on your homeworld either, because all homeworlds start with the ability to support a reasonable amount of population. The main thing you need at the beginning are construction bonuses, and farms don't give you that.
Farms also don't need to be on your homeworld to provide food to your homeworld. That 1st screenshot, there's nothing stopping me from building cities on it. I just can't do it immediately, which isn't important. All I have to do is find some planet somewhere that's got 2 farms on it, and develop them. Then I'll have the food and be able to produce a city on my homeworld just fine. That's pretty much Colonialism 101.
In addition, the funky looking tree in the upper left corner, called an Artocarpus Fruit, gives exactly the same adjacency bonuses as the farmland. The green Floodplain icon in the middle, gives a similar bonus to farmland, just less valuable! So the sprawl of only 1 class of adjacency bonus, is even worse than it might obviously appear. The Random Number Generator just went to town on spewing waaaaaaay too much of 1 thing. And the whole point of class bonus systems, is having to make tradeoffs between the various classes. This is a roll that says, "you can develop any kind of homeworld you want, so long as it's based on farmland." As is typical for class tradeoff systems, lack of balance is totally unprofitable. You gotta build ships, you gotta research techs, you gotta make money... farmland does help you make money, but the bonus isn't all that much.
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incompatible adjacencies
At least this one isn't spammed with farmland, but it's still not a good homeworld.
First the features that give bonuses, are often blocking each other so you can't put much next to them. The chunk of rock in the lower right corner for instance, the Thulium, can't have anything built next to it right now, unless you tear up the farmland. It only gives a +2 Wealth bonus anyways. That peninsula lacks tiles, and experience with this particular homeworld over the course of the game shows, that you're never going to be able to get a lot more tiles available in that region. So there's really no basis for creating a wealth center in that region; it's pretty much a useless bonus, 8-Balled behind the farm.
Thulium is also not rare in the galaxy anyways. It's not a critical resource that allows you to build a special project, it's just something you mine around planets. I think this kind of bonus came from an earlier stage of GC3's development where maybe they were more important and difficult to come across. Nowadays, in version 4.52, it would probably be best if they got rid of these planetside "bonuses" entirely. They just take up valuable space.
Another case of "different classes blocking each other" is the maze looking thing at the upper middle, and the red stonehenge icon next to it. The maze is a Research bonus and the stonehenge is a Construction bonus. Most improvements will not allow you to take advantage of both simultaneously.
There is one improvement that gets a bonus from both, but you must have a special resource, Arnor Spice, in order to build it. Most games, you will not have Arnor Spice initially and you may go a very long time without being able to get it. You can' t count on it being available on some planet, as it's kinda like the spice melange from Dune and doesn't exist very many places. Even if you wanted to invade a planet to obtain it from someone else, it might be on the far side of the galaxy and unreachable for quite awhile.
If you try to trade with the AIs for it, they typically give you really bad deals. You can do trade missions at your shipyards, essentially using productivity and time to create the resources in a chain of transactions. But you must have spare shipyard output to do that, and that's generally not true early in the game. You also have to research certain techs to make the trades, and you won't have those techs at the beginning.
So for now, trying to gain a bonus from both Research and Construction simultaneously, is bottlenecked by Arnor Spice. Unless your homeworld came with Arnor Spice, this ain't happenin' for awhile. So that 1 adjacency next to the stonehenge, is of decidedly lower value.
Similarly, that colored lump in the upper left is a Research bonus. The blue crystal icon next to it is a Ship Construction and All Construction bonus. Incompatible. So, the 2 empty hexes adjacent to them both, have to sacrifice 1 or the other bonus. Additionally, adjacency bonuses promote the creation of regions of tiles, all getting bonuses from the same class, to reinforce each other. These 2 bonuses are going to create a boundary between incompatible regions, if it's even useful to develop them at all.
If you absolutely had to play this homeworld in some kind of tournament capacity, just dealing with whatever you were given, then you'd probably decide to go for either Construction or Research, and ignore the bonuses for the other category that you're not going to get. Consolidating a region of stuff that has the same class of bonus, is way too valuable to do otherwise. So this homeworld is bad because it didn't give you Construction and Research bonuses in different areas, where you could develop both separately. Worth a reroll, rather than wasting many game hours overcoming this.
The next 4 rolls in a row, I got spammed with farmland again. The 5th roll gave me not too much farmland, a valuable critical resource, pretty decent open areas, and a couple of bonuses crammed behind some stuff that I couldn't use. In AD&D terms that would be like rolling a "15" when 3..18 is the range. Pretty good, but, you could do better. Will you keep rolling to do better? If I wasn't doing this writeup, I probably would have settled at this point. Mainly because the valuable critical resource was Helios Ore, which lets you build the Strategic Command, which lets you chuck out ships a lot faster.
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useless capitol
I really hate that GC3 doesn't do the most basic of sanity checks, about whether a given homeworld generation is fair. Your capitol has adjacency bonuses for most classes of stuff, and can also receive a few bonuses as well, like for Construction. As such, it's quite valuable at the very beginning of the game, to be able to put stuff next to your capitol. In this roll you can't, and unless you chop down farmland, you never will be able to. Even if you do, you're not going to get many adjacent tiles out of it. Your capitol has been basically crippled / nerfed.
The only roll more insulting than this, is when the capitol gets put on the 1 tile island! That happens with colonial capitols plenty of times. On other planets at least you can often terraform a new tile into existence next to the capitol, and you don't expect all planets to be of equal quality anyways. But your homeworld, you're under enormous pressure to build all kinds of improvements everywhere. You don't have enough terraformable tiles for all the stuff you need to do, so if a region lacks for adjacency, there's a good chance it's gonna stay that way.
Most of the tiles available for terraforming on this particular planet, are in the upper middle. There's also no way to know that except by playing the game over and over again. If you play the same race, you'll get the same homeworld, and you'll do its various possible developments many many times. So I know where the "big regions of adjacency" can and can't be.
That's probably enough examples of the problems with adjacency bonus systems. I really think it's a bad game design trajectory, akin to shoe stores that offer "Buy One, Get One 50% Off". That's a slimebag way of saying you'll get a 25% discount when you buy more shoes than you wanted anyways. Shoe prices start off jacked up sky high, so getting 25% merely brings them out of the stratosphere. They've given you nothing. They've just played with your psychological expectations of what the baseline price is, tricking you into thinking you got "a deal".
Adjacency systems, that are crowded, with resources blocking each other from building stuff next to them, and classes being incompatible, are exactly the same thing. Why don't we just go back to "this tile gives you +3 on Construction," Period, The End, and be done with it? It would save players all this BS micromanagement about where exactly to put things. So they could get on with the game, and not have it take 16 to 20 hours before they're bored to death of micromanaging all this guff.
Adjacency systems convince players that they're "doing something", when nothing is being done. Psychologically they're a massive sunk cost fallacy. You micromanaged this homeworld, so it must have been worth bothering to do. You micromanaged all these planets in your empire, so....