Engineering a ''Need''

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I do like having a nice lemon smelling spray for the kitchen counter though.

chillin117 wrote: »

Solutions for problems that don't exist, The latest...
Little girl ''Mum, This washing machine stinks''
Mum comes to the rescue with a smile and a bottle of Dettol Washing Machine Cleaner. !
I remember the likes of Armitage Shanks throwing millions at a ''Need'' The Bidet's never caught on
Same happened to the moist toilet paper people, Dead in the water (pardon the pun)
Anyone any more ?

Poochie05 wrote: »

Great post! I may have missed it in the list above, but moisturising deodorant! I've always wished my pits were smoother, softer and younger looking and at last I have found the answer!

Candie wrote: »

My guilty pleasure as a person with no style at all, is couture magazines. I don't want to see a size 12 modelling Dior in Harpers Bazaar, I want the whole aspirational, inspirational, idealized version of what I might look like if I had the clothes, the shape, the money, the life. Oh, and the height.

Candie wrote: »

The worst offenders for this is the beauty industry. You can buy specific creams for your hands, chest, neck, eyes, and feet. You can buy scrubs for your face, your body, your feet, and even your lips. You need several types of cream for your face alone, eyes, neck, and special serums to go with them. You need two kinds of cleansers, toners to remove the residue of the cleansers, then the battery of area creams, and the 'special treatments' of acids, peels, masks, extractions, massages, and even gadgets to clean your face.

Your hair needs shampoo, conditioner, bb cream, heat protection spray, extensions, hairspray, color and cut, and of course a battery of styling products and gadgets like dryers, straighteners, curlers, wands and tongs.

Nails are an industry too, you don't just file and polish, you need basecoats, color, topcoats, crystal files, emergy boards, cuticle trimmers, orange sticks, cuticle cream, nail oil, whiteners, special finishes, lately I've seen the introduction of the 'accent nail' and of course nail 'art'.

Makeup is serious business. The last bit of female facial real estate available for exploitation were the eyebrows, which were previously just styled, perhaps penciled and combed. Now you can buy waxes, powders, setting agents, extensions, pencils, growth enhancers and you're simply not groomed anymore until you look like Groucho Marx. This is besides the plethora of base coats, blushes, highlighters, contours, primers, eye primers, eye shadows, eye pencils, eye liners, lip liners, concealers, brighteners, mascaras, and setting sprays. And much, much, much more.

Then there's the feminine 'hygiene' industry. You need special products to wash the female genitalia, products to line your underwear, products to perfume your vulva, products to remove every hair possible, treatments to bleach your anus, and even bejewel your pudenda.

Your feet alone need special softeners, foot files, specific clippers, polishes, heel creams and scrubs.

Of course to sell all this, the awareness of those imperfections has to be spread first, and the whole empty spectacle is driven by manufactured insecurities.

It's hard to resist, I've my own fair share of oils, creams and conditioners, but the whole pore-closing, age-defying, scalp-detoxifying (I actually saw that on a product) industry is built on lies and insane expectations, and it's not healthy for little girls - and increasingly little boys - to be constantly exposed to the idea that everything about them needs to be improved with the purchase of a cream.

Candie wrote: »

The worst offenders for this is the beauty industry. You can buy specific creams for your hands, chest, neck, eyes, and feet. You can buy scrubs for your face, your body, your feet, and even your lips. You need several types of cream for your face alone, eyes, neck, and special serums to go with them. You need two kinds of cleansers, toners to remove the residue of the cleansers, then the battery of area creams, and the 'special treatments' of acids, peels, masks, extractions, massages, and even gadgets to clean your face.

Your hair needs shampoo, conditioner, bb cream, heat protection spray, extensions, hairspray, color and cut, and of course a battery of styling products and gadgets like dryers, straighteners, curlers, wands and tongs.

Nails are an industry too, you don't just file and polish, you need basecoats, color, topcoats, crystal files, emergy boards, cuticle trimmers, orange sticks, cuticle cream, nail oil, whiteners, special finishes, lately I've seen the introduction of the 'accent nail' and of course nail 'art'.

Makeup is serious business. The last bit of female facial real estate available for exploitation were the eyebrows, which were previously just styled, perhaps penciled and combed. Now you can buy waxes, powders, setting agents, extensions, pencils, growth enhancers and you're simply not groomed anymore until you look like Groucho Marx. This is besides the plethora of base coats, blushes, highlighters, contours, primers, eye primers, eye shadows, eye pencils, eye liners, lip liners, concealers, brighteners, mascaras, and setting sprays. And much, much, much more.

Then there's the feminine 'hygiene' industry. You need special products to wash the female genitalia, products to line your underwear, products to perfume your vulva, products to remove every hair possible, treatments to bleach your anus, and even bejewel your pudenda.

Your feet alone need special softeners, foot files, specific clippers, polishes, heel creams and scrubs.

Of course to sell all this, the awareness of those imperfections has to be spread first, and the whole empty spectacle is driven by manufactured insecurities.

It's hard to resist, I've my own fair share of oils, creams and conditioners, but the whole pore-closing, age-defying, scalp-detoxifying (I actually saw that on a product) industry is built on lies and insane expectations, and it's not healthy for little girls - and increasingly little boys - to be constantly exposed to the idea that everything about them needs to be improved with the purchase of a cream.