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Snake Oil
Posted by Dan loves tea
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Snake Oil July 09, 2004 02:31AM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 237 |
<HTML>I have been looking at the high end waxes which cost between £40 and £5570.00 per jar. let me repeat that... £5570.00 per jar. Pounds not dollars!
I though I would list some of the ingredients which I googled because frankly, I had never heard of many of them. So I started taking notes in laymans chemistry. I includd ingredients from both waxs and cleaners.
Tallow soaps = fat from animal kidneys.
pure Tallow = pure animal fat
Cetyl Esters = organic wax of undifined origin
Chlorophyll = a green plant extract which absorbs sunlight
Propolis = tree sap collected by bees
Cetyl Cocoamide [sic] = made up name? (Cocamide (not Cocoamide) is a real chemical)
zymes = made up name?
Safflower Oil = a.k.a. bastard saffron, a cooking oil and salad dressing
FD&C blue = food dye (blue)
Glycerl Sterate [sic] = emulsifier made from vegi-oil, normally used in anti-wrinkle cream
Evergreen = ???
Honeydew = A sugary substance that is excreted by aphids and scale insects.
Cantaloupe = melon
Citric Acid (from rose hips) = yep...
Coconut Bark Soap
Coconut Essence Oil
coconut extracts
almond extracts
vanilla extracts
Titainium oxide
...and I like this one the best;
Banana Oil = solvent with a banana like smells. mixture of amyl acetate and nitrocellulose, also Slang for nonsensical exaggeration.
When searching for many of these ingredients, I often found myself on the web sites of new age herbalists and occult suppiers where it was claimed that some of these items have miricle healing properties!!! Quite frankly, I think their claims were no more fantastic than the prices of these wax companies.
feel free to add to the list or expand on the definitions I have given.</HTML>
I though I would list some of the ingredients which I googled because frankly, I had never heard of many of them. So I started taking notes in laymans chemistry. I includd ingredients from both waxs and cleaners.
Tallow soaps = fat from animal kidneys.
pure Tallow = pure animal fat
Cetyl Esters = organic wax of undifined origin
Chlorophyll = a green plant extract which absorbs sunlight
Propolis = tree sap collected by bees
Cetyl Cocoamide [sic] = made up name? (Cocamide (not Cocoamide) is a real chemical)
zymes = made up name?
Safflower Oil = a.k.a. bastard saffron, a cooking oil and salad dressing
FD&C blue = food dye (blue)
Glycerl Sterate [sic] = emulsifier made from vegi-oil, normally used in anti-wrinkle cream
Evergreen = ???
Honeydew = A sugary substance that is excreted by aphids and scale insects.
Cantaloupe = melon
Citric Acid (from rose hips) = yep...
Coconut Bark Soap
Coconut Essence Oil
coconut extracts
almond extracts
vanilla extracts
Titainium oxide
...and I like this one the best;
Banana Oil = solvent with a banana like smells. mixture of amyl acetate and nitrocellulose, also Slang for nonsensical exaggeration.
When searching for many of these ingredients, I often found myself on the web sites of new age herbalists and occult suppiers where it was claimed that some of these items have miricle healing properties!!! Quite frankly, I think their claims were no more fantastic than the prices of these wax companies.
feel free to add to the list or expand on the definitions I have given.</HTML>
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Re: Snake Oil July 09, 2004 02:56AM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 505 |
<HTML>Bud,
You, of all people, ask that?
It is called "marketing to a posistioned" market!
No reality, no facts, but lots of "smoke and mirrors", we both have enough years behind us to see who companies take what a small percentage of the market thinks they want, and if they don't, gee, let's convince them that the need it.
Cause, "X" company cares about them, "X" company loves them, "X" company has products that while the "john" may get it elsewhere for less, it is in a fancy package or " we stand behind it" sort of approach.
Don't we all wonder just how much of this " we do this, we say this, we are great, just ask us" sort approach produces in profits from companies that prey on the uninformed?
Don't ever tell them the truth, just tell em what they "want to hear" approach, since they are easy targets?
Ketch</HTML>
Do it right or don't do it all!
You, of all people, ask that?
It is called "marketing to a posistioned" market!
No reality, no facts, but lots of "smoke and mirrors", we both have enough years behind us to see who companies take what a small percentage of the market thinks they want, and if they don't, gee, let's convince them that the need it.
Cause, "X" company cares about them, "X" company loves them, "X" company has products that while the "john" may get it elsewhere for less, it is in a fancy package or " we stand behind it" sort of approach.
Don't we all wonder just how much of this " we do this, we say this, we are great, just ask us" sort approach produces in profits from companies that prey on the uninformed?
Don't ever tell them the truth, just tell em what they "want to hear" approach, since they are easy targets?
Ketch</HTML>
Do it right or don't do it all!
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Re: Snake Oil July 09, 2004 10:05AM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 237 |
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Re: Snake Oil July 09, 2004 01:42PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 866 |
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Re: Snake Oil July 10, 2004 02:53AM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 30 |
<HTML>Better yet can anybody tell me what glassplexin is and how it can be used as a component to protect a cars surface...cant find the info nowhere !Second I seen a bunch of PROLONG products at a flea market this weekend ...and I remember the TV ads...what ever happen to the products and the hype...Dont remember seeing the sealant and rubber protectant in stores!!!</HTML>
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Re: Snake Oil July 10, 2004 03:19PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 201 |
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