hmm interesting reading about a BH promoted brand

Hi beauties,

just jumping in here to let you know we asked Skin Physics about this issue and they’ve come back to us with a response for you – here it is if you’re interested!

“The brand Skin Physics was acquired by Biophysics in Sept 2014. All our current products and advertising are fully compliant and we are unaware of any issues IGEA, the previous brand owner, may have had.”

xx

Further information for people interested in the Australian regulation of cosmetic products:

https://www.tga.gov.au/cosmetics

The document keeps closing on me, but I get the gist of it. I had Dragon’s Blood on my list of stuff to try, so I guess I can cross it off now.

Interesting read.

My understanding is that because the advertiser has made claims that make the products sound like they have some sort of therapeutic use, the products attract the sanction of the therapeutic legislation and the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code, which imposes a much higher standard on the products to meet compared to the usual “cosmetics” products which do not have therapeutic use.

The advertiser tried to argue that they did not represent the product has those therapeutic uses (which is interesting to see because the advertiser essentially was saying that the products are not in fact at that standard that they have represented to be) but the panel rules that they have been represented as therapeutic goods and therefore the Code applies. On inspection the claims were not verified and could not be justified scientifically.

I am glad that someone has bother to make complaint on false or misleading advertising. The industry is so full of BS and it’s really time that people take some action against this practice.

yeah it’s a bit of a messy read – but if you skip to the findings on the last few pages it says that yes they are making false therapeutic claims, using altered images/fake images of before/after, using testimonals/endorsements from famous doctors making it look like they are promoting their product but actually they were not, the list goes on. Just curious as I notice all of their products are in the bargain bins now on lots of websites which kinda made me wonder why.

I’m confused, are they being accused of false advertising and making false claims about their products?