Tears Formula
Many entries ago I posted about using Sunsilk's For Men range, and discussed how good it was. Apart from the occasional hiatus when I stay at a hotel and steal all the mini-toiletries bottles - after four and a half years - I still use that shampoo. And it's still good.
The one thing that bothers me, though, is that Sunsilk cannot seem to decide how to design the bottle. By activating my tightarse powers I tend to only buy shampoo once a year, I wait for it to go on special and I buy a handful of bottles. When it finally comes to restock I have to spend minutes scanning the shampoo aisle because the colour and shape and logo on the bottle have changed.
This isn't much of an annoyance really. Not worth journalling about anyway. Today I finally started using their most recently designed packaging. I had a shower between losing the C Grade Basketball semi final, and being disappointed that the Ped Egg was not as fun as it looked on television. Anyway, as I showered I read the back of the new bottle and discovered that this time not only did Sunsilk change the exterior but they also retooled their shampoo itself, with the expert guidance of Thomas Taw. Imagine my discontent when I learnt that Thomas Taw was not a world renown chemistry genius, or pharmaceutical scientist. He was a hairdresser! What kind of input is a hairdresser going to have to the ingredients of my shampoo? "You should make it easier to massage into the scalp."
Yeah...
And also, on the subject, can you imagine being a shampoo scientist? Like if that was your job and someone asks you what you do at a party do you tell them or do you lie? Does shampoo technology have a ceiling? Do you come home from that job at the end of the week and feel like you made a difference? At least at my job I feel like I make a difference. I keep servers up, reports running, applications in the green. Also today I won a RedHat Polo shirt at a seminar for answering a question, even though I answered the question wrong and mainly went to the seminar for the free breakfast.
Comments
Hey if a chef like George Foreman can design a grill I don't see how a "hair care expert" can't "co-create Sunsilk's most advanced Detox For Men formulation". I use it because I care about my hair. I use it because I believe in Thomas Taw. Also I use it because the bottle was blue and that means it's a boys shampoo.
I am having a sunsulk because they don't make anything for curly haired people. It is descrimination. Thomas Taw is Hairist.
My biggest issue with toiletry products is razors. Not only do you now have to (almost) sell a kidney to buy a 5 pack of blades that come in a an anti-theft locked CD stlye case, but everytime you go to get new ones they've added a blade, or a vibrator, or a new handle or some self suddsing rim around the outside. Why can't Gilette just release a thousand blade verson, blow schick out of the watr and be done with it. Life would be a lot easier.