Cosmetics, over-priced, over-hyped chemical creams or cheap and cheerful

I dont know if it is still around but my grandmother always had her pot of "Ponds Cold Cream" it wasn't expensive and she had the most beautiful skin and hardly a wrinkle.

Interesting. That's the same reason I decided to start my own website offering make up and skin care products that I have tried and find effective. I got sick of looking at ingredients and figuring out what was actually active ...and noticing that ingredient was about 15th in the list on the fancy bottle that was the biggest part of the price! I hope to branch out after things get going, and do real time gatherings to practice mixing our own skincare products. That way ladies can learn what is active, what isn't how to mix their own for cheaper and exercise control over what goes on their skin. It is nice to see that the media is talking about the big cosmetic company scams. These places have everyone believing that they have some secrets when in reality, anyone who can follow a recipe and mix their own items. Too cool!

For myself I prefer the cheaper brands. I actually buy one from the dollar store that is great. It's their Personal Care brand, it's a face cream with alpha hydroxy and it works great. I love it. I buy it for a dollar and it lasts forever. Why should I pay $5 or more for something that won't last as long and more then likely doesn't work as good?

Those smile lines that the heavy-duty wrinkle creams are supposed to eliminate actually make smiles look good.

Very occassionally if I really , really like a product I will pay a bit more for it but on the whole I go the cheap and cheerful route! We wear our lives on our faces - why try and get rid of it? lol xxx

Yes even in the Philippines that Cosmetics including those other beauty products were over-priced.My wife used to deal these beauty products but since the prices of these products goes high she had noticed that her costumers were not buying anymore and it made her decide to stop on dealings those products.

I remember I read a research somewhere that cheaper moisturizers might actually be more effective than those expensive ones. The people were given two products (one is expensive and one is ordinary brand), they asked the people to use both products on half of their faces each night. Of course the people didn't know which one is more expensive one and after a month, they were asked to guess which one is the more expensive ones and they were all mistaken that the cheaper one should be the expensive brand because it worked better on their faces and they actually feel it's more effective. I used to use expensive brands of skincare or cosmetics. But now I switch to ordinary brands and am pretty happy with them. I think most of the money of the expensive products go to the celebrities, too and I don't think I'd want to invest that much on a celebrity LOL.