Those "fantastic" anti wrinkle cream ingredients..

[iandbeech]

You know the ones - very long and technical sounding so they must be very scientific!

It seems the latest one is called "Boswelox"

How apt - it certainly is a load of old Boswelox

[Superflid]

They crack me up.

Think of a new word, then put it in your ad as a major selling point.

"Contains Fuginox 27c"

[tubafun]

iandbeech said:

You know the ones - very long and technical sounding so they must be very scientific! It seems the latest one is called "Boswelox" How apt - it certainly is a load of old Boswelox

Bet it can't take the wrinkels out of my Boswelox!

[eric mc]

The assumption is - give it a vaguely scientific sounding name and the punters will assume it works. It just shows how much scientific and technological language has seeped into our minds as part of our culture - even if what they are saying is total nonsense.

I suppose if they had been marketing such creams in the 13th Century they would have been telling us that the ingredients had been blessed by Saints or Angels.

[Ace-T]

As someone who these concoctions are aimed at I find them hysterically funny! They advertise these anti-wrinkle creams using a 17 year old model who would think a wrinkle is some kind of shellfish. Or they use someone like Andi McDowell who looks as if she has had so many facelifts if she opens her mouth the top half of her head would fall off.

As you get older you get wrinkles. FACT. If you smile as much as possible they will get etched into the right places and you will be beautiful no matter how many you have.


Ace-T

[CarZee]

Now containing hyper-gimmerfram-IV, oxy-nutrahypogardenhose and osmo-retardylarse-beta.

The product of "shampoo scientists" - aka bollocks-speak advertising copywriters...

[wrinkly]

Personally, I think wrinkles are cool!

[iandbeech]

wrinkly said:

Personally, I think wrinkles are cool!

Yes - but if you use "Boswelox", you could change your name to Smoothly!!

[lightningghost]

www.numbersix.net/mt-archives/000300.html

[wrinkly]

Yes - but if you use "Boswelox", you could change your name to Smoothly!!


Can you buy it by the ton?

[Big_M]

You should worry - one of the ingredients of the contraceptive pill comes from horse wee.

[wedg1e]

Me Julie uses a cream that I recommended.... it comes in a tube a few inches long and can be applied anywhere... wrinkles, hair, tummy, teeth....

[Big_M]

wedg1e said:

Me Julie uses a cream that I recommended.... it comes in a tube a few inches long and can be applied anywhere... wrinkles, hair, tummy, teeth....

and full of protein no doubt

[wedg1e]

Big_M said:

wedg1e said: Me Julie uses a cream that I recommended.... it comes in a tube a few inches long and can be applied anywhere... wrinkles, hair, tummy, teeth.... and full of protein no doubt

That's the stuff!

[james_j]

All anti-wrinkle creams contain bullshiticus.

Water is just as good at adding moisture to your skin - in doing that it's just as important to drink enough water.

[sagalout]

I like the ad where they say it makes your wrinkles look 7 years younger......still there but younger

[Marshy]

wedg1e said:

a tube a few inches long

I assume, chap, that you're going by the old mantra of "under promise, over deliver" there?

[wedg1e]

Marshy said:

wedg1e said: a tube a few inches long I assume, chap, that you're going by the old mantra of "under promise, over deliver" there?

You wouldn't like it on your nose, as a wart, that's for sure....

[V8 Archie]

Big_M said:

You should worry - one of the ingredients of the contraceptive pill comes from horse wee.

I'm sure I heard that toothpaste contains bull semen (as a binding agent) .

[456mgt]

Big_M said:

You should worry - one of the ingredients of the contraceptive pill comes from horse wee.

That's probably HRT you're thinking about, not the contraceptive pill. Wyeth sell a product called Premarin (from Pregnant Mare Urine) which is a *very* comlex mix of oestrogens used to relieve some of the symptoms of menopause.

Not much better, I grant you.