The Beautiful People Part Deux / Advertisements Gone Wild / It’s All Lies Folks

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This is the second instalment of my post, ‘The Beautiful People’, I know it’s been a long time since I posted that one but I have a few more things to say now.
What provoked this post was an ad for a major bathing soap, manufactured by a brand whose name rhymes with ‘fucks’ and believe me that’s exactly what they are doing to our minds.
Some time ago, they introduced a miracle soap (yet another one) that contains collagen and grape-seed oil. These two constituents of the soap allegedly help ‘firm’ up your skin against the ‘ravaging effects of ageing’. Yeah right, what complete and utter bullshit, grape-seed oil maybe but collagen, never.
Collagen is a pretty large protein with three polypeptide strands per molecule, each fibril of collagen has about a thousand amino acids. Now how does something that large get through your skin? Keep in mind the cells on the upper layer of the skin are dead so there’s no question of them taking up anything. If it were possible, then why would people with diabetes be sticking needles into their arms every time they needed their insulin, wouldn’t it be easier to use an insulin ‘patch’?
How do they allow this kind of advertising? Aren’t there any regulatory authorities whose job it is to keep this kind o crap under control? Apparently there aren’t because this kind of misleading advertising is everywhere.
Take for instance Manikchand, who manufacture chewing tobacco, banned by Indian law from advertising their main product; they began marketing mineral water under the same brand name. The main focus of their campaign was the fact that their water contained 300% more oxygen. More oxygen than what? The polluted air we breath? Anyway what is this oxygen going to accomplish? We aren’t fish so water is not exactly where we get our oxygen from and even if we did, we’d have to snort the stuff, not a pretty thought.
Then there was an air-conditioner manufacturer who claimed that their AC’s blew Vitamin C enriched air, a water filter that can filter viruses and soaps that can kill viruses. How does it make a difference, how do they manage that and right on is all I have to say.
Advertisements in India cross over from product endorsement to the realms of fiction and it sucks because nobody seems to care. There needs to be slightly more scrutiny of their wild claims, someone needs to put an end to their lying ways.
Even worse are the tele-shopping channels; somehow everything they peddle was discovered by scientists in the depths of the Amazon jungle, from pills for weight loss to those that make you grow taller. Those products not of Amazonian origin were discovered by sages meditating atop the lofty peaks of the Himalayas, for some reason they took time off from their spiritual aspirations to produce fairness creams and anti-acne lotions.
What’s dangerous about their products is that I doubt that they actually do anything apart from parting you from you money. They are not manufactured under the standards required of pharmaceutical products as is evident from studies which show that a lot of ayurvedic ‘medicines’ contain very high levels of heavy metals including arsenic and mercury.
Forget a clear, ‘fair’ complexion, you’ll probably get Minamoto’s disease and grow a lot of attractive holes in your face, but hey, holes in you face help reduce weight right?