Over the past several years I have done media interviews and speaking engagements to women’s groups around the world. I have done presentations for thousands of women from places as far-flung as Jakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, Korea; Stockholm, Sweden; Mexico City, Mexico; Singapore; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and almost every major city in the United States.
From Toronto to Dallas, and everyplace in between, no matter where I’ve gone, I’ve never had to change my topic of discussion. I don’t even have to do extra research, because the cosmetics industry is so universally crazy. Everywhere I go, the advertisements are so entirely
deceptive and the claims so utterly bogus that women ask me the same questions. They want to know why a product they bought didn’t work. Why didn’t their wrinkles go away? Why didn’t their scar fade? Why didn’t their skin discolorations change? Why are they still breaking out or just starting to break out? Why do they still have dry, flaky skin after buying so many products promising to make things better? What is the best skin-care ingredient? Do I know about a recent product launched with some miracle ingredient currently being advertised or in an infomercial? I get the exact same questions all over the world.
What almost always happens during my presentation is I see a look of understanding come over women’s faces as they grasp how they have been duped time and time again by the cosmetics industry. There isn’t a part of the world where the cosmetics industry works any differently, or where the products are any better (not in India, Japan, or even France), or the claims are any less far-fetched. What women everywhere want is to take the best care of their skin, and what most women fall into is the trap of believing the falsehoods propagated by a vast part of the cosmetics industry.