Safe miracles with no prescription or useless shit?

Few months ago, having promised my Mum, I took her to Cosmoprof in Bologna, probably the biggest Trade exhibition of its kind on the planet. Mum was after some free samples, I was after some gratuitous nudity and a laugh, we both got disappointed. Hundreds of companies within the Wellness & Spa sector were showing off their innovative products and services; we spent hours looking for something actually useful on display only to realise that we had wasted our fucking time.

See, you get out from a place like that and wonder what the hell is wrong with some people, how can they really believe that those treatments and products could actually transform someone into something better? People spend shit lots of money on a promise just like in the middle age they would do in the name of salvation… a good-looking man or an annoying screaming lady would step on to a stage promising “I’m going to make you a better person” and a massive bunch of losers pick up their wallet like there’s no tomorrow… c’mon now, aren’t we better than that??

It’s beyond me!

What makes it worse (because it gets worst!) is that most of these products, creams, treatments are dispensed without any serious scrutiny or info in terms of possible medical symptoms or side effects… When buying a cream in a beauty parlour, how do we really know what is good to our skin? Do they ask you for any convincing info before helping you making an informed decision? Is the pretty lady serving you competent and well trained on what can really do you good?

Even more, would we ever know if… say Mrs Perkins the next day wakes up with, for example, redness of the eyes, itching, irritation, skin rashes… no, we wouldn’t know! And the pretty lady serving you, wouldn’t know either, and would carry on charging someone’s credit card as this is what she’s paid for.

I don’t buy it! Either someone is selling us “safe miracles with no prescription” or they’re selling us useless shit that does absolutely nothing other than emptying our pockets…

Sure, there must be something out there genuinely good for our specific needs, but how do we find out, and do we separates merciless robbers from professional expertise and competence, how can we know more about what we need, what’s available, where to find it… and expose the bastards that are simply taking the piss taking our money?

I’d love to find a way… maybe I will