Both companies sells scam products like CBD creams and 90% of cosmetics.

So I was idly browsing shelves at CVS one night, the CVS nearest the university, I should say.

I found a few vaginal suppositories up on a shelf, god what was I doing in that aisle?

One caught my eye, branded Loyalty, so I plucked it off the shelf and turned it around to find its main ingredient is boric acid.

> its main ingredient is boric acid

So? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

A few years ago, bugs were just finding me at home, and so I went to the hardware store and purchased some heavy-duty roach poison. It's a white powder; active ingredient: boric acid. I was informed of its toxicity and the need to avoid inhaling it, where it would, you know, damage my mucous membranes.

Wikipedia mentions that is one of the medical uses of boric acid.

First, I didn't say what the use is, and secondly, you're describing a much different preparation than the one in the box I found.

> First, I didn't say what the use is

You said it's a vaginal suppository at a CVS, so you're in the united states at a major retailer looking at a major product category that contains a common ingredient for that category. There isn't any serious ambiguity. Boric acid preparations have mild and mostly gentle antibiotic properties.

> god what was I doing in that aisle?

This plus the university betrays a kind of youthful naivety, so, if it helps any, the boric acid in the suppository was there to raise acidity by a not dangerously high amount when used in moderation.

> you're describing a much different preparation than the one I found

You said boric acid, they said boric acid. Boric acid is commonly used in products meant to reduce bacteria and fungi. It's common in eye drops too.

> branded Loyalty

Are you sure it wasn't just "Loyal"?

I've purchased the Similasan products before when I was dealing with dry eye/eye strain issues, and they are bunk. Mostly saline and some homeopathic BS. That said saline "helped" and they usually labeled it as "relief" not a cure or treatment so I knew it wasn't anything more at best than a symptom reliever. That said I never bought them again as they didn't do anything more than plain saline drops.

I was in a CVS a few years ago where they were selling a tincture which was supposed to help children stop wetting the bed. It contained mercury. I’m not sure how they could legally sell that.