Thread: Maca Root - The Body Shop SALE !

I've been using the Maca Root since it was first introduced. Fantastic cream. Smells good, lathers well. Before they introduced it I used their Hemp shave cream. I was gutted when they stopped it and replaced it with the Maca, but love the Maca too.

I believe Santa will be bringing me some new Truefitt and Hill creams. Looking forward to trying those.

Maca Root doesn't get mentioned too often around here but I too find it as good as any shave cream I have tried. It is a good solid performer imho.

Bob

Maca Root and MWF are the solid base to my uberlathers. A little of each, or only one of them, each day with an alternating third soap/cream for subjective joy. I will, on occasion, use just one for the lather of the day.

Off topic note: Ran into an inexpensive Mexican shaving soap recently ($3.99) that, while water thirsty, produces a very nice lather similar to MWF. Have used it singly to good advantage. It's called Noble

OK Ed now I can see the reason for the boycott on the Nestle products
that's a pretty low business strategy by anyone's standards

something our pollies would try do, if thought they had a chance of getting away with it

Originally Posted by Substance

OK Ed now I can see the reason for the boycott on the Nestle products
that's a pretty low business strategy by anyone's standards

something our pollies would try do, if thought they had a chance of getting away with it

yes, quite true, isnt that how capitalism works?

Originally Posted by edhewitt

yes, quite true, isnt that how capitalism works?

I've never read that Nestle encourages women to not breastfeed.

What I understand one of the issue's to be with Nestle is the advertising, tying affluence and healthy children to the baby formula product. In addition, the formula requires clean water, and in India, much of the time that means being required to boil it, which requires resources that are not necessarily available to many - so unsafe water is used, and the babies end up terribly sick from using the formula. If the children were breastfed, this obviously wouldn't be an issue, but mothers, especially poor and under-educated ones, think that the formula is better for their children from all the posters and the highly targeted ad campaigns, hence, they believe they are doing the best thing for their babies, and Nestle's knows this, yet continues this type of advertising.

Nestle's position is that many use the product in India safely, which is of course correct, that the instructions clearly indicate how and in what manner the product is to be used, and that if the product is used incorrectly or negligently, sickness may result.

It's a complicated story, and as always, there are many viewpoints.

indeed andrew,
i will not say anymore, as i dont want to turn this thread into anything more than that which it is (about discounted products), and that is not to say i dont enjoy the banter with you, or indeed that this comment is directed at you, but i rather sillily got involved in another thread which could well go south and i dont want to do that to this one.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

indeed andrew,
i will not say anymore, as i dont want to turn this thread into anything more than that which it is (about discounted products), and that is not to say i dont enjoy the banter with you, or indeed that this comment is directed at you, but i rather sillily got involved in another thread which could well go south and i dont want to do that to this one.

Agreed - I'm looking forward to trying the mythical, "Maca" root, something that simply does not exist in Nature in this here Hinterland...can't wait to give it a go....

Better get all the Nestle's out of your system now before Tom finds this thread,,, Lord knows where this thread will go when he gets here,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Better get all the Nestle's out of your system now before Tom finds this thread,,, Lord knows where this thread will go when he gets here,,,,

Hot chocolate and shaving? Sounds like a winning combination to me.....