I have sensitive skin and acne, so I use a special face wash. It’s not prescription, but it’s an expensive and hard-to-find brand.
Over the past few months, I noticed it seems like I’ve been using it up faster than normal. My roommates know about it, because when it was late to arrive I asked them to look for it in the mail and when it got here they were like hey your face wash got here.
Coincidentally, I noticed my roommate (the only one I share a bathroom with) hadn’t replaced her face wash for weeks, and I got suspicious she was using mine.
So when I left for a two-week vacation last month, I weighed the bottle before leaving (we have a food scale that my roommate has for her diet, and we’ve all explicitly been told we can use it whenever we want).
When I left the face wash weighed 235 grams. When I got back it was 195 grams.
I confronted my roommate and asked her nicely that it was my special face wash and to please avoid using it. She denied it vehemently. It’s an opaque bottle, so not really visually obvious how much is in it, so she probably thought she could get away with lying.
Then I revealed that I’d weighed it, and that 39 grams were missing, which means she must have been using it almost every day.
She turned beet red. Now she’s been avoiding me for days, but she told my roommates I’m a psycho, controlling a-hole for weighing it, and says normal people wouldn’t do that, and that using a little face wash is normal and isn’t a big deal.
I don’t know what to do. Should I apologize? Did I overstep my boundary?