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I've never seen labeling like this before. Interesting.

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[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I hate to rain on a parade, but it's marketing bullshit. Aqua comes from water, isn't it? Purified one at that? "Vegetable"? Calcium fluoride is a source? "Natural ore" as opposed to an artificial lab grown ore?
It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean. And if you do it's obvious ploy to capture very ignorant people.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

I think you're reading it too pessimistically. There are so many people out there saying, "If you can't pronounce it or know where it's from, then it's straight POISON!"

There are artificial ores. There are people who will want to know the water they used was clean (the purified water). This looks like a great way to educate people on what they're using and to learn not to be afraid of big, complicated words.

[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

What, you don’t feel more informed to know that your glycerin comes from a miscellaneous vegetable?

Natural ore made me laugh. I mean, asbestos and beryllium are naturally occurring ores too…

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I bet asbestos would make for a killer toothpaste, actually.

It's homeopathic nonsense. None of those are accepted names for the substances they are talking about, and they don't specify a quantity so it could be essentially zero for some of them.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean.

Teaching children is pointless because it might look nice, but if you already know the stuff then you would recognize that it's all fairly trivial, well-known stuff. No reason to point it out.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You just demonstrated that you actually don't know what words mean.

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