Clarins new Magic Juice!

[jsiv]

Clarins' new thing. (http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-03/030207harpo.html#i8)

I saw this product at a mall here in Norway the other week. Apparently it's marketed all over the place and selling pretty well!

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/410/070223115615zj3.jpg

Imagine indeed. Should we be buying this stuff in bulk and spraying it on our walls?
(http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=4437)

[Psiload]

Ummm...

X-rays can penetrate walls too... so they must be good for your skin. Right?

[jsiv]

Ummm...

X-rays can penetrate walls too... so they must be good for your skin. Right?
I think you may have it backwards. It's not a bottle full of electromagnetic waves, but rather a spray to keep them out!

Isn't this someone you could theoretically measure, and possibly have them prosecuted for false advertising if it doesn't actually block "electromagnetic waves?"

[Blight]

Spray on Faraday Cage, how didn't I think of it sooner!

Next, we'll have an anti-gravity spray.

[Orangutan]

Our Magnetic Defense Complex has Thermus Thermophillus and Rhodiola Rosea, two powerful plant extracts which reinforce the skin’s natural barrier and provide biological protection against electromagnetic waves.

A) Thermus Thermophillus are heat tolerant bacteria not exactly plant material.
B) Rhodiola Rosea Is a cold climate plant.

Is the magical thinking that they help protect against hot and cold?

I sent them this enquiry:


Hi,

I work with computer monitors all day and so am interested in the EM radiation protection properties of your Expertise 3p.

From your website I see: "Our Magnetic Defense Complex has Thermus Thermophillus and Rhodiola Rosea, two powerful plant extracts which reinforce the skin’s natural barrier and provide biological protection against electromagnetic waves."

R.E. Thermus Thermophillus Is this a bacteria? Is it live, if so is this product safe to use around pregnant women and those with depressed immune systems?

Can you provide more information as to what parts of the electromagnetic spectrum it protects against. I don't want to mess up dental x-rays I am due to have. Also if it can block the near visible spectrum do I still have to use sun-screen?


Edit,

Having read the website carefully, they don't actually claim to block this radiation, just help repair skin cell damaged caused by it. I will still be interested to read their answer though.

[Slimething]

So, what do EM waves do to walls that's so terrible? :confused:

[Smidge]

I've read about this recenlty. It's on sale her (Ireland) too.

I'm a TOTAL skeptic when it comes to putting/rubbing/applying something on your skin that apparently will improve it's long term appearance, density, elasticity, quality etc. I'm not saying that I'm a fan of injecting anything into your skin either but can a topical treatment actually penetrate and positively effect the skin?

As far as I remember the price for this product is not too prohibitive so I expect it will 'work' that way, ie, sell very well.

Cosmetics companies use such small test groups (as it's so expensive to conduct such trials) that it's nigh impossible as a consumer to work out if the product does produce the results it claims. Whatever the science claims is one thing, I want to see the actual results on HUMANS.

[Orangutan]

Well as I thought I got a reply that basically says, they repair the damage, they don't stop EM radiation, "nothing can".

I thought about writing back asking if nothing can stop it how does your skin get damaged by it but I can't be bothered with these people.

[LeCynthia]

I have a spray that prevents anti-gravity! Oh boy, does it work!

[jsiv]

British authorities order Clarins not to make unsubstantiated claims in their advertising. (http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_43024.htm)

Woo-hoo.

[jeffq]

If electromagnetic waves can penetrate walls, imagine what they can do to your skin.

This reminds me of a hilarious observation about the "dangers" of water that the late comedian Pat Paulsen made during one of his endless Presidential campaigns:

Look what it did to the Grand Canyon. It could do the same to your stomach.

False analogy seems to be one of the favorite tools of the self-deluded and the alternative-medicine scam artists. They need to be mocked Paulsen-style whenever they open their collective mouths.

[AgeGap]

So, what do EM waves do to walls that's so terrible? :confused:
In the UK, Wall's is a company that sells ice cream and bacon. EM waves would have a terrible effect on either if you stuck them in the microwave.

[tracer]

Oh, I dunno, microwave-cooked bacon ain't too bad.

[The_Fire]

'BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I'm currently watching Clarins getting shredded on national television here in Denmark in a consumer protection program.
It's bloody, I'm tellling you....I ALMOST feel sorry for the idiots behind it.....



(to the danes; "Basta", TV2)