"For Men"/"For Women" products...

JC 2K3

Does anyone else think this is a bit ridiculous? I mean what's the difference between a deodorant/anti-perspirant for men and one for women? The smell? But what actually makes it a masculine/feminine smell? And what's the difference between moisturiser for men and moisturiser for women? It's not like we have different skin or anything...

It's all just a marketing scam to get men to buy products that traditionally only women use, it's kind of annoying that there's this unnecessary seperation of toiletries dependant on gender. I mean if all these products were made unisex would men(and women) be less willing to buy them because they aren't strongly marketed towards their gender?

AARRRGH

I know what you mean!

What bothers me more is the products for men which are clearly marketed at women (for example, Nivea for Men.)

Nightwish

my boyfriend is very strange like that. He refuses to use my shower gel when he's at mine because its pink
when I'm at his, I have no issues with using his stuff.

Tar.Aldarion

I think there is a difference as regards deodorant for men and wome because their chemistry or something is different and a mans deodorant would make a woman sweat more or something. I rember vaguely reading about this when I got curious....

el Bastardo

Yep. That's the marketeers at work again. And look at the price differences for what are essentially the same things. As for 'nivea for men', I refuse to pay for the stuff. There are plenty of cheaper unperfumed alternatives to be had from the pharmacies.

AARRRGH

My brother is a pharmacologist. He told me his friend who works for "Roc" (expensive French moisturisers etc.) told him that there is very little difference between a €2 moisturiser and a €55 moisturiser.

He also told me that when they add seaweed or flowers or semen or whatever to the moisturisers it is in such small qualtities that it cannot make a difference. In other words, it's just an excuse to add a fiver to the price.

iguana

Well I did see the results of some consumer watchdog test on razors which concluded that women's razors were not as good as men's razors. They didn't give as close a shave, and they tended to cause more cuts and nicks. Yet they are more expensive than men's razors because they are a pretty pastel colour!

My bf was given an extra Gillett shaving set for xmas one year so I appropriated it. I've never cut myself with it once, but I used to often get cut from the womens ones I used before. (I'm talking legs and underarms here, btw, not moustache.)

simu

Hmmm... actually I find women's razors are cheaper. (Well, the disposable ones anyway).

I must say that the silliest example of the topic at hand I've seen is tissues for men. Wtf?

seamus

Women's cosmetics smell like women. That's why I don't use them.

rubadub

JC 2K3 wrote:

I mean what's the difference between a deodorant/anti-perspirant for men and one for women? The smell? But what actually makes it a masculine/feminine smell?

The womens deodorant bottles are usually shaped really thin with very rounded ends so as to double up as a dildo, they pay the same amount for less product so they can have a good **** too. The company that makes a kunt shaped mans soap will make a fortune.

I usually just get whatever is cheapest, I wouldnt get those that have, what I would describe as, a "feminine smell" (no fish remarks please). I wouldnt be getting impluse or something but there are many unperfumed antiperspirants but they are always in the womens sections. Or pretty unisex names/smells like sea-fresh that are always in the womens and smell just like lynx or whatever. It is like the supermarket stackers just get told, white stuff here (womens), black cans there (mens).

Thing is women like the smell of their own perfume, you see them in shops smelling before buying (most men dont bother) and women often commenting on each others perfume smelling nice. So if you are a guy trying to attract a woman it sort of makes more sense to wear a "girly" scent, since they like it so much.

Usually they charge over the odds for stuff usually for the opposite sex, so mens moisturiser is more, and womens shaving foam is more. Making money off peoples embarrasment at checkouts (mens more than women). Or making money off guys like that other posters fella that is living in fear that he will turn gay or his prick will fall off if he washed with soap from a pink bottle.

rubadub

simu wrote:

I must say that the silliest example of the topic at hand I've seen is tissues for men. Wtf?

My sister got them but had to stop using them after she grew a beard.
I think the "man" in that case just means "big", should be called tarzan tissues

pickarooney

simu wrote:

Hmmm... actually I find women's razors are cheaper. (Well, the disposable ones anyway).

I must say that the silliest example of the topic at hand I've seen is tissues for men. Wtf?

Who wants to tell her?

JC 2K3

rubadub wrote:

The womens deodorant bottles are usually shaped really thin with very rounded ends so as to double up as a dildo, they pay the same amount for less product so they can have a good **** too. The company that makes a kunt shaped mans soap will make a fortune.

ROFL!

seamus

rubadub wrote:

Thing is women like the smell of their own perfume, you see them in shops smelling before buying (most men dont bother) and women often commenting on each others perfume smelling nice. So if you are a guy trying to attract a woman it sort of makes more sense to wear a "girly" scent, since they like it so much.

You'll also find women wandering around the men's section, smelling the men's aftershaves to see which ones they like. Of course they like the smell of their perfume, or they wouldn't wear it - but that doesn't mean they like their man to smell like a woman.

johnny_ultimate

pickarooney wrote:

Who wants to tell her?

Ive always wondered if THAT was the reason. But it's not really, is it?

rubadub

seamus wrote:

You'll also find women wandering around the men's section, smelling the men's aftershaves to see which ones they like. Of course they like the smell of their perfume, or they wouldn't wear it - but that doesn't mean they like their man to smell like a woman.

Fair enough but you also said

Women's cosmetics smell like women

but thats because the women you are smelling are using womens cosmetics. The perfume industry were the ones who picked what the different sexes "should smell like". If they were switched around at the very start you would be none the wiser. If some factory producing fragrance that had a a "pour homme" and "pour femme" version, and got the 2 recipies mixed up I wonder how many would know. You could have women in the mens section thinking it smelt nice and buying it for their boyfriend. I bet some women wear mens aftershave because they like the smell. I would also bet a far higher % of women users buy the unisex fragrances too, i.e. say 90% of women actually buy perfume and 45% of men, I would think there are far more than double the women buying unisex stuff than men. For fear of turning transexual