To simplify life. People used to just use soap to shave. I still do mostly.
A popular brand of ibuprofen in Australia recently came out with packaging that said “Back pain” or “Headaches”. I suppose they figured people with back pain or a headache would buy it since it was more specific and presumably more effective than ordinary ibuprofen sold by competitors. But it was just plain ol’ ibuprofen. The manufacturer got fined $6M dollars for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct.
I think the issue there was that they were selling the “targeted” product at a price premium compared to their own identical but non targeted product. So people were buying headache specific Nurofen at a higher price than they could get standard Nurofen because it was advertised as being specifically for headaches when it was the same product, chemically.
Pricing was certainly part of it but I don’t know enough about the case to say whether it was a critical part of the ACCC’s case.
Advertising works but my point more specifically is that there is a buck to be made by implying consumers need a specific product, even when that product isn’t actually significantly different to or better than existing (and probably cheaper) products.
I was on a trip, just had a disposable razor, and shaved “dry”. Worked fine!
I realized I’d spent decades buying shaving products needlessly, and stopped right there. NOTE: If I haven’t shaved in a week, I’ll shave after a shower (or just get my face wet for a few minutes, the hairs absorb water and get softer).
All you keg women, you better put on the wall,
‘Cause I’m gonna get drunk and do my dirty talk,
The monkey and the baboon playin’ in the grass,
Well the monkey got mad and whipped his yas, yas, yas,
Talkin’ 'bout shave 'em, mama’s gonna shave 'em dry
“Shave 'em Dry”, Lucille Bogan
(It means sex without foreplay. I’ve also heard “shave 'em dry” used to mean slit someone’s throat.
Language is endlessly mutable.)
(Note about above: I got those lyrics off Wikipedia. I should have checked before posting - never trust lyrics transcriptions off the internet. The line “All you keg women, you better put on the wall”: well I don’t know what a “keg woman” is, so I’m sure that part’s wrong, though I can’t say what she’s singing - sounds like “cack women”, which means nothing to me but might to someone versed in the idiom. The last word is definitley walk, not wall. I suppose “put on the walk” could mean to walk in a sexy way; but that’s just a guess.)
I was in a hurry a while back and needed to brush my teeth. I took a swig of mouthwash, jabbed in a toothbrush and brushed away. Spit it out and called it done.
Does the alcohol in mouthwash make hairs stand out more?
I’ve had a few episodes with zombie threads where I thought I should contribute a point, only to read the thread and run across the same point someone posted years ago, and then realize “Hey! That was me!”
I think a critical function is being able to dissolve the oil that is on hairs on the face.
And this is why it’s hard to shave with just water; it can’t dissolve the oil, so you have to press much harder to cut the hair and that leads to unevenness and irritation.
Interesting. That kind of strategy is commonplace here in the UK.
In China, there are even a couple of big companies that invented brands for this. E.g. there might be “mijin brand headache pills” and “princhester brand back ache pills” but it turns out that they are the same pills made by the same company (and princhester and mijin never existed as separate entities).
Of all the ways for companies to deceive consumers though, I’m probably least uncomfortable about this one.
