Pure Nuff Stuff

Guilt's a terrible thing isn't it?  I've done exactly the same to be honest, what's the point of wasting the products altogether?  And if someone gets something they think is nice, then you've done a good thing I reckon, don't beat yourself up about it.

You may or may not be surprised (I still am) to learn that I get a fair few bottles of smelly stuff every year too.  But what else can you do but smile, put on your very best "pleased" look and thank the person who's been kind enough to give you a nice present?  So, with the very same heavy heart you talk about,  I take it to a charity shop unused and pass it on.

Falls apart?! How did THAT ever get through the research phase then I wonder?  Tee hee...

It really does seem that these natural additions are just a bit of a smokescreen doesn't it?  And like you say, it gives people the feeling that they're doing something good - or that the product is somehow better for them because of the ingredient. *sigh*

I thought of another kind of ingredient last night that makes me shout at the telly - the pseudo-scientific ones.  You know, all these new things ending in the suffix "ox" making them sound a tiny bit like Botox, so they must do you lots of good, eh?  Oh I tell you, it's a riot round at ours when the adverts are on, I sound like a mad old tramp shouting at invisible aliens so I do :)

That's another one isn't it, what's the point of having 95% natural ingredients if you then suspend them in noxious nasties?  Surely it would de-nature them and make them pointless anyway? That might not always be the case I guess, but it does make the leap into natural products a bit pointless in my humble opinion...

I'm delighted to hear I'm not the only one shouting at the telly though - thanks for that Karen :)