[Ice-cream]

hey guys, lately i brought a few anti-ageing creams and on one of the bottles, it says "Bio-Super Anti-ageing Eye Complex With Bio-Placenta, Collegen & Elastin 30gm"

now i noticed that collagen is not spelt as "collegen"...does this mean the cream is a fake?  i mean, how can they get the word "collagen" wrong? (or is that another way to spell collagen??) the brand is H & B Health and Beauty...i got told this is an australian brand...but i'm now worried it's a fake.

wat do u guys think?

[Froggirl]

Australian's spell it collagen as well....so I don't know what they are refering to.

Cosmetic companies are really good at coming up with random stuff, giving it a fancy name and convincing people it will make them look 50 years younger.

Just go for good old fashioned vitamin E cream....its usually just as good and 1/100th of the price  

[TakeItEasy]

Most of such cosmetics turn out to be fake...so keep your eyes open and think twice before buying any of such things...this is my advice

[momo4]

Most of such cosmetics turn out to be fake...so keep your eyes open and think twice before buying any of such things...this is my advice
I am curious about what cosmetic your talking about. I find that the best cosmetics are the ones that have all natural ingredients in them. Meri,
            Terra Firma Cosmetics

[lemonoman]

I LOVE seeing commercials for stuff like this, because we chemists can sit back and say, "What the **** are they trying to pull?" lol...

I'm trying to think of some examples...

Vitamins in shampoo...whats THAT about?  Hair is DEAD CELLS people it's not like they need nourishment.  They need moisturizing maybe because they can lose water but they're not taking in energy...

Oh, that new acne wash or whatever with 'microsrubbers'.  How about crushed up sand?  Doesn't that have the same sound to it?

Calcium in tums.  How about, "Now with 20% more chalk".  I'd buy it.

I'm sure there's marketing jobs for chemists  lol...

[Benzene265]

All any moisturizer does is glue your skin cells together.  This makes your skin smoother and healthier looking than it would if it were sloughing off.  It's not a ripoff.  I, for one, totally needed to glue my epithelium down after washing all those flasks after lab.  My hands can only take so much cleaning in one day.  But, I'll buy the generic Value-Rite stuff because I know that all I need is to smooth down my microscopic skin peels, not make myself look like a child.  Any old moisturizer can do that.

Putting vitamins and such in a cream or lotion isn't as farfetched as you might think.  Plenty of medicines such as cortizone or triclosan are delivered cutaneously in cream or lotion.  But, smearing vitamin E cream on your hands and face won't work as well as putting it on your underarms or other warm, moist areas.  Drugs soak through warm moist skin faster than dry skin.  Also, the skin on your hands is rather thick compared to most of your body.  If you really need more vitamins in your diet, take supplements.  It's much faster and your body is better equipped to process and distribute vitamins through the intestines than the skin.

Collagen is rather large.  I don't think it can be delivered cutaneously.  I've heard of plenty of subcu collagen injections for filling in wrinkles, though.  Relatively small wrinkles are usually filled in by makeup, kind of like grouting tile.

[GCT]

if you're asking on whether the ingredients have been falsified (they're just putting crap in their), it's probably not the case.  However, I would be careful about using unfamiliar products.

[Donaldson Tan]

this is hilarious