Skin Care Tips: Online Product Shopping
Check List
ByJoel Walsh
Skin Care Tips on Product Price
Don't fall for the typical website trick
of providing a low purchase price and then
tacking on a substantial shipping and handling
fee--or offering free shipping but then charging
a "handling" or "processing"
fee.
Skin Product Size Any product listing
has to say, at bare minimum, how many
grams, ounces, or CCs the product contains.
However, it should also give you some
idea of how many uses you will get out
of the product. Ten ounces of one product
might last 30 days, while ten ounces of
another might barely last the week.
If the product listing doesn't provide
this information, it should at least say
how much is a recommended dose, and how
much to use per day or week. Then simply
divide the total size of the product by
the usage size to get an idea. For instance,
if you need to use half an ounce of product
per day, a 16-ounce container will likely
last a month.
Skin Care Products' Ingredients
At bare minimum, the product listing
should show all the ingredients listed
on the actual product label, both active
ingredients (the ingredient that actually
performs whatever treatment the product
is supposed to provide), as well as inactive
ingredients (ingredients used for filler,
textures, scents, and other materials
that are only there to help sell the product
rather than fulfill its mission).
The site should also explain in plain
English what each ingredient does. You
should do a quick web search on one or
two of the ingredients you don't recognize,
to see if the product listing's explanation
of what the ingredient is accurate or
if it's distorted.
For instance, companies sometimes try
to give the impression that ingredients
that are really only used as colorants
or preservatives provide some skin care
benefit. They do this to mask the fact
that the essential active ingredient in
the product may be the same as dozens
of other products on the market.
Guarantees
Don't take any guarantees at face value
until you've checked them out. A money-back
guarantee may hide the fact that it would
simply be too much expense or trouble
to return the product. For instance, if
the price of the product is ten dollars
plus five dollars shipping and handling,
and the money-back guarantee requires
you to ship back the unused portion to
get it, you will have spent five dollars
on shipping, meaning you are only really
getting five dollars back. Then of course
there's the original shipping and handling
fee, which is often not included in the
money-back guarantee.
Faced with putting the gunk back in the
jar, repacking it, mailing it back, and
waiting for a meager refund, many people
will simply give up--the money-back guarantees
of many sub-par products depend on this
phenomenon.
In short, if the money-back guarantee
requires you to return the unused product
and/or does not cover the original shipping
and handling fee, it's not much of a guarantee.
Joel Walsh is a contributing author to
Skin Care Tips:http://www.skin-care--tips.com
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