I'll check out that book. I like reading about what's out there, function wise, even though the stuff that I buy isn't for cosmetic purposes, but rather pharmacological ones.
It is nice to know there's someone out there looking out for the consumer! That I think is the one area where the supplement industry has an edge, in that there are *lots* of sources of fairly solid info, once you somehow dodge the hucksters of course.
I do believe that the better brands are, well, better, but I think they're kinda screwed by the marketplace. There are plenty of markets where you just can't sell a cheap product no matter how good it is. I hate that mentality because it hoses those of us who want good deals, or who want to set up a business offering good deals. I suppose I will do some math, though. If I get a minute I will try to work out the markup on some of the better cosmetics (which others have mentined) things and post it. At a wild guess I suspect they're priced at 50-100x the cost of materials, but that's just a wild guess.
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It is nice to know there's someone out there looking out for the consumer! That I think is the one area where the supplement industry has an edge, in that there are *lots* of sources of fairly solid info, once you somehow dodge the hucksters of course.
I do believe that the better brands are, well, better, but I think they're kinda screwed by the marketplace. There are plenty of markets where you just can't sell a cheap product no matter how good it is. I hate that mentality because it hoses those of us who want good deals, or who want to set up a business offering good deals. I suppose I will do some math, though. If I get a minute I will try to work out the markup on some of the better cosmetics (which others have mentined) things and post it. At a wild guess I suspect they're priced at 50-100x the cost of materials, but that's just a wild guess.