It's gone too far. Officially.
It's the Sunday of a vacation weekend and I'm due an excellent Sunday morning rant. Here goes.
Save your money. It's genuine that pores and skin can dry out in a dry weather, and the nice substances on the earth to remedy this are mineral oil, petrolatum and glycerin. Mineral oil and petrolatum are byproducts of oil refining and glycerin and its derivatives are a byproduct of the breakdown of plant or animal fat. Not truly very glamorous sounding, are they? Glamorous or no longer, they are the inspiration of every cosmetic moisturizer available and that they price pennies a pound. The relaxation is marketing. Period. Things like lavender extract, elderberry extract, sage extract and my favored; olive fruit oil (spare me) make skin arrangements smell better and that's about it. Using these vegetation' Latin names does not lead them to any greater powerful; and unluckily, too many people stop asking questions after they see terms they do not apprehend.
I love how the good folks at Pepsico slapped an Rx to their logo to make the whole thing seem scientific and medical but it's a lie --a marketing ploy. Rx is medical shorthand for the the Latin recipe, the singular imperative of the verb recipare. Recipe means take and it carries with it the weight of a doctor's orders. "Here, take this." No doctor not in the employ of Pepsico is ordering you to take this or any other overpriced reformulation of mineral oil, petrolatum and glycerin.
Save your money oldsters. Drink faucet water and purchase a bath of Vaseline to soften up your dry spots. And please, for the sake of humanity Pepsi, persist with making soda.