Do you feel like a chain store? Practically floored.

[venta]

Funniest thing on the news today: M&S anti-cellulite knicker claims 'misleading'

...contains the wonderful paragraph:

"The £29.50 Anti-Cellulite Firm Control Waist and Thigh Clincher pants contain vitamin E, aloe vera and caffeine."

Caffeinated pants?

I appreciate that cellulite blights some people's lives but really... who thought caffeinated pants would help?

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Also, what happens when you wash them? Doesn't all the caffeine etc get washed out? Are these actually incredibly expensive single-wear disposable pants?

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I would like to point out that I bought a pair of M&S 'Outstanding Value' jeans yesterday for less than half the cost of said pants.

[venta.livejournal.com]

According to the website (http://www.marksandspencer.com/Anti-Cellulite-Control-Waist-Cincher-Knickers/dp/B0031ARAKY?ie=UTF8&qid=1272538972&categoryNodeID=&ref=sr_1_2&page=&node=42966030&sr=1-2&mnSBrand=core&rh=), they're both machine washable and tumble-dryable. I guess the millions of micro-bubbles which hold the caffeine in place are waterproof :)

I also note that M&S sell the pants as "cinchers", not "clinchers" as the BBC called them. Which makes slightly more sense.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link - I was wondering what they looked like. That's more than a pair of knickers, really, and I can understand the price a bit better now. I'd still say they look more like they should cost £10-15, though, rather than nearly £30.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that if one is to wear them everyday one needs (one hopes!) more than one pair!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I guess the millions of micro-bubbles which hold the caffeine in place are waterproof :)

Oh yeah, then how do they get the active ingredients to our skin then? :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oy, you, keep your spirit of scientific enquiry to yourself, we're trying to sell pants here!

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Obviously you are forgetting about the memory effect of knicker elastic, variant transit caffeine osmosis and the quantum entanglement of vitamin E.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

In that case, I completely retract my statement :-).

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*nods* I wondered about that.

Mind you, the 'miracle results' of most anti-cellulite creams are largely the effect of massaging your legs twice a day. You'd get the same results with baby oil.

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Yeah....but pressing the babies to get the oil is generaly considered bad and wrong =;-)