Wednesday, 11 June 2008

A friend of mine asked me the other day about the benefits of herbal skin care products. He seemed to have been influenced by media-based indoctrination that anything with origins outside of the medical fraternity must be nothing but ineffective, mumbo-jumbo voodoo. It's very easy to play the victim, or to overreact in defence of one's art/beliefs when one is under constant scrutiny. However I remained calm (for once) and laid out a reasoned argument for why he shouldn't allow the opinions of journalists to dictate his thinking and that if he was really interested in herbal skin care products then he should investigate and draw his own conclusions.

This is a problem with much of our society these days. We pay other people to make up our minds for us. The quick fix is what we're all about. The short cut. We'd rather spend our time being spoon-fed biased information so long as we don't have to think for ourselves. Newspapers, online magazines and even our trusted television news corporations are paid to present facts to us, but I'm afraid this is rarely the case. As a result subjects such as herbal skin care products become a play-thing of the media.

It's a rarity when a writer actually attempts an informed, unprejudiced opinion and then dares to present it to the world; exposed to the likely derision of other critics. This point is probably the most pertinent one. We see this happening time and time again in the music industry. DJ's are quick to promote those bands who are perceived to be popular, so as not to damage their own reputation as a purveyor of all things tasteful/popular. I could go into more detail about the virtues of herbal skin care products but I'd prefer to let you make your own mind up. Feel free to check out the product ranges presented here on the MCS Wellbeing web site, including other natural skin care ranges, nutritional and other wellbeing products, as well the Herbalife products. That's all for now!

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