Home Cosmetic Science Talk Formulating Cosmetic Industry Starting a cosmetic line Win a Nobel prize then charge big bucks for a skin care line

  • belassi

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    December 5, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    I’m just about to release my own new line, actually. It’s a bit pricier, at 2 Bitcoins per 10mL. I spit on his “nanocubes”. OURS has FEMTOPOLYHEDRONS!
    You know, I would love to make a fake product announcement like that.

  • DAS

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    December 5, 2017 at 11:56 pm

    It’s OK to charge for the R&D, the knowledge and the effort, just don’t add an extra 0 to it!.

    A common mistake to think the customer has to pay every cost involved and more. This isn’t medicine.

  • sabahi

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    December 6, 2017 at 5:33 am

    This just motivates me more to create something similar to La Mer

  • em88

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    December 6, 2017 at 7:48 am

    I’m curious if they have any study about these Nobel products

    @sabahi, the Le Mer cream is going to be an obsession for you :)

    @Belassi, wouldn’t nano spheres be better :smiley:

  • OldPerry

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    December 6, 2017 at 2:04 pm

    I actually don’t find the pricing to be the main problem. If they can get people to pay >$500 for skin care, more power to them.

    What I find most troubling is that we have Nobel Prize winning chemists propagating junk science. I’m sure these are fine skin lotions but it’s highly unlikely they do anything more than your standard Olay skin moisturizer.

    Somehow I don’t mind it so much coming from marketers, but our brightest scientists?  sigh.

  • belassi

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    December 6, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    @em88, No, nano is too big. It’s only 10^-9. Consumers might be able to spot that. Femto is 10^-15. We were going to use picospheres but marketing thought that femto was better, because it’s so small that even the FDA won’t be able to find it.

  • em88

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    December 7, 2017 at 7:39 am

    They are using the Nobel prize for marketing and not for science.
    @Belassi, at that range those particles are going to be comparable or even smaller than the size of a proton lol. :)

  • Chemist77

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    December 7, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    A noble approach to encash Nobel felicitation

  • Doreen

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    December 9, 2017 at 11:43 am

    @Perry
    Somehow I don’t mind it so much coming from marketers, but our brightest scientists?  sigh.

    Word 
     :( 

  • Bill_Toge

    Member
    December 9, 2017 at 2:34 pm

    while it’s not ideal, it is at least better than having them fabricate scientific findings in order to justify political policies, which I suspect will become a common occurrence before any of us are much older

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