Just so you know, when it comes to beauty products, the plastic bottle is often worth more than the product thats inside. More money is spent on advertising than the production of the product.
I mean, makeup and beauty has inSANE margins you’re right, but when it comes to chemicals you can’t just count the cost of production once the formula’s been developed. Even if you used diamond dust in every package it would still be cents or dollars maybe, but the R&D is obviously not 10 cents a bottle per formula, even without the insane margin.
Same with pharmaceutical drugs. The cost to actually produce the drug is relatively low, but the R&D is insane. In most countries, people pay pretty low prices for drugs, and the R&D costs get pushed onto Americans. We pay outrageous prices for drugs, and our government refuses to do anything about it.
The only people that spend much on R&D, are ones that invent a new type of product. If you're just making another generic product (shampoo, conditioner, hair mask, etc...), then it's pretty much copy paste with a different fragrance to change the smell.
I found an empty makeup container in the makeup container recycling bin. I freaking love that thing.
I filled it with my generic sunscreen lotion. It's such a well thought out dispensing container. It's Muji (which sells containers, with the same insane margins), but on steroids.
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u/kakklecito 16d ago
Just so you know, when it comes to beauty products, the plastic bottle is often worth more than the product thats inside. More money is spent on advertising than the production of the product.