What would you pay for castor oil?

because today I paid 21.50 euro. That's roughly $30 for 500 mL. That's 1/2 a litre. That's a 1-l. milk carton at Safeway--but half.

No, I'm not constipated. I use it in soapmaking. It has to be bought at a pharmacy, which is The Business to go into in Austria if you want to rake in money hand over fist. These "apotheke" don't really sell anything "OTC", or, over the counter. They also don't sell, without a fight, anyway, any generic drugs. So you must pay premium price for everything they sell. And you can't buy anything they sell, anywhere else. Like aspirin, for example. Instead of going to Superstore or Safeway or London Drugs or Shoppers and picking A.S.A. off the shelf and trotting it to the counter and paying generic price rather than Bayer's Aspirin price--you can ONLY get Bayer's and you can ONLY get it at the Apotheke at a grossly inflated, hey! check it out, we're a monopoly! price. Burns my butt. Ghastly expensive. And the Austrians pay up, as do the Canadians, because there's no other option. When will capitalism come to this democracy?