Comments on: How Can You Conduct a Beauty Product Experiment? http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/02/05/how-can-you-conduct-a-beauty-product-experiment/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:10:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Left Brain http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/02/05/how-can-you-conduct-a-beauty-product-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-35565 Left Brain Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:09:05 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=4170#comment-35565 Brilliant idea! We'll have to get Mid Brain to work on that one. Brilliant idea! We’ll have to get Mid Brain to work on that one.

]]> By: Janis http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/02/05/how-can-you-conduct-a-beauty-product-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-35551 Janis Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:43:57 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=4170#comment-35551 I don't see how it would -- only if the stuff came back positive would it be a problem, and I doubt that any of those lead scares are for real. I'd love to hear the complaints about the Evil Megacorps deliberately making their lipstick so that it comes up clear in the tests, though. How dare they -- making their products safe on purpose so we can't sue them! :-) I just love the idea of the brains making little apprentice cosmetic scientists out of people. :-) For the cost of a pack of litmus strips, a bottle of stain with an eyedropper, and a glossy printed insert with directions for use, they could plant the seeds of little girl chemists everywhere, and improve the hell out of their branding with little makeup bags with Brain logos on them. I don’t see how it would — only if the stuff came back positive would it be a problem, and I doubt that any of those lead scares are for real.

I’d love to hear the complaints about the Evil Megacorps deliberately making their lipstick so that it comes up clear in the tests, though. How dare they — making their products safe on purpose so we can’t sue them! :-)

I just love the idea of the brains making little apprentice cosmetic scientists out of people. :-) For the cost of a pack of litmus strips, a bottle of stain with an eyedropper, and a glossy printed insert with directions for use, they could plant the seeds of little girl chemists everywhere, and improve the hell out of their branding with little makeup bags with Brain logos on them.

]]> By: tsunamino http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/02/05/how-can-you-conduct-a-beauty-product-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-35550 tsunamino Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:58:25 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=4170#comment-35550 Or "Pretty Science" :) I dunno about testing your lipstick for lead. That might lead to some lawsuits and more fear mongering. Or “Pretty Science” :) I dunno about testing your lipstick for lead. That might lead to some lawsuits and more fear mongering.

]]> By: Janis http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/02/05/how-can-you-conduct-a-beauty-product-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-35546 Janis Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:25:09 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=4170#comment-35546 BTW, you can call it "Be A Brain!" BTW, you can call it “Be A Brain!”

]]> By: Janis http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/02/05/how-can-you-conduct-a-beauty-product-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-35545 Janis Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:01:28 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=4170#comment-35545 You know, I wonder if simple experiments like this can't be put together by the Brains, and you guys can sell not only books but little cosmetic testing kits with litmus strips and protein stains, and whatnot. Nothing involved, just a little kit in a pink zippered bag with some easy testing tools in it and step-by-step instructions on how to test your lipstick for lead, and how to test your conditioner's pH, that sort of thing. Shouldn't be too expensive; manu on the zippered bags would be the biggest expense. And people would be encouraged to keep and carry around the little bags and use them for makeup bags after the kit ran out -- with your nice brainy logo on them. Been in marketing for a long, long time ... You know, I wonder if simple experiments like this can’t be put together by the Brains, and you guys can sell not only books but little cosmetic testing kits with litmus strips and protein stains, and whatnot. Nothing involved, just a little kit in a pink zippered bag with some easy testing tools in it and step-by-step instructions on how to test your lipstick for lead, and how to test your conditioner’s pH, that sort of thing. Shouldn’t be too expensive; manu on the zippered bags would be the biggest expense. And people would be encouraged to keep and carry around the little bags and use them for makeup bags after the kit ran out — with your nice brainy logo on them.

Been in marketing for a long, long time …

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