So, I suppose I'm amongst the 10 / 💯of people watching I'm a grown woman and all I think if a guy says he's manscaping or has shaved his legs and arms is okay I guess you're gay Or maybe training for the olympics. Or trying to get me in the sack ASAP. I do appreciate a dude not letting a forest grow, yet if you have no hair in places that are supposed to have some??! One psycho told me he was getting his chest waxed. WTF I said that is a turn OFF. So GROSS.
My wife bought women's razors for years and I always thought it was kind of dumb since disposable razors are really bad for tons of reasons. One year for Christmas I bought her a proper safety razor since I had recently switched to using one and loved it. Both of ours are simple shiny silver razors with no frills or gender skew to them and she LOVES hers. She gets a better shave, pays basically nothing for the blades, and hasn't had to replace the handle or anything because it's just solid stainless steel. It just blows my mind that these companies have gotten so effective at convincing people inferior products work better, and that they can get away with charging more by changing the color.
my favorite so far is mouth care. especially teeth whitening. first convince everyone they need teeth whiter then white. sell them a product that does it. then everyone gets sensitive gums from that. sell them a new product to deal with sensitive gums. i've gotten to the point that i'm wondering if the whole hygiene thing is just a giant conspiracy to make not just a sale. but a service that you can never escape from once you're subscribed into it
My significant others just always used my razors which was so annoying, because I would buy the ones they asked for. They were more expensive too like WTF? I will share the last of my food. Give you my hoody or jacket in the freezing rain. Hell I will become a living donor... Just don't touch my razor whore!
@@MaxContagionwell they did literally create the “disease” halitosis (bad breath) in order to sell mouth wash by making people feel insecure about their regular breath smell.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug There are deeper issues in this video than a specific brand name. I use Wahl, serves no other purpose but trimming hair, and most are made in USA.
@@michaelsoutherland3023 Conair - very well made and lasts forever. Repairable. I had a clipper for nearly 30 years. Replaced the hard wired battery myself a couple times before I got sick of holding it together with duct tape and got a new one with li-ion battery. So over the last 40 years or so, I've spent $50 on trimmers. Yep.
A big issue with the 'Pink Tax' is that it does not address the R&D that goes into the product. Not just marketing, because marketing wank is what marketing wank is, but production. I.E. It costs more for pink dye for the plastics to make the razors than it does blue dye. Womens razors generally have more padding on the lubrication strip because men and women generally shave different areas of skin. Just look at the products you picked, Gillette Fusion 5 vs Gillette Venus model. VERY different appearance, and in function, not just 'different color, but same manufacturer, must mean same product'. Drycleaning is a different creature altogether. Men's shirts are generally the same tubular shape, and a machine can be used to press/steam them much easier than women's clothing, because women's clothing is more contoured. Don't just look at the price and product and go "Oh, it's exactly the same" because there are key differences that are NOT just color or the 'for men/women' labels to consider. Please, do feel free to fact check that, walk into whatever store sells a good amount of hygiene products and REALLY look at those ingredient lists for men's products and compare them to women's products. You'll find notable differences between them. This is not to say that there isn't a markup there, it's the REASON for the markup that 90% of people seem to get totally wrong.
It's almost as is the channel has a ideological bent on that topic. As anyone with functinoal eyes can see women's razors are build better for their typical use and arguably last longer.
What annoyed me most about their commercials was that they try to make you feel insecure about the most trivial thing like the hair on your knuckles. Shaving your knuckles (or taint for that matter) has nothing to do with hygiene and everything to do with being suckered into thinking that your very normal body hair is keeping you from getting laid.
I’m sorry to break it to you lil bro, but women don’t like bushes. I have never in my 20+ years of macking on hoes, had one say “can you grow your bush out” but I have had a few ask me to trim it down. Your giant bush will absolutely (potentially) prevent you from getting laid. Do your lady friends and yourself a favor and invest in an electric trimmer, lawnmower or not.
They already roped women into shaving all kinds of stuff, now they're going for men. The ancient Egyptians shaved their entire body, including eyebrows - shaving companies had taken over their society.
As a single mom for 18 years, I must say that I was very unhappy when they started focusing on men’s stuff. I had, up to that point, saved a goodly amount each year by purchasing male-oriented “beauty” or “grooming” products instead of the pink kind.
Why use razors? You only damage and dry out your skin. Waxing lasts for weeks and destroys the follicels of unwanted hairs over time. I started waxing at 17 and now at 23 I already have thinner hair on my venus zone, legs, arms and armpits. I pay 3,65€ for 20 waxing strips at the drugstore.
@@CordeliaWagner Wax is irritating skin even more (you can't get rid of this very short, thin hairs without damaging your skin), sugar wax\paste a little bit less, but it's also less effective (so it's no working on very short and thin hairs). Razor or electric shaver is still go to for people who's skin is prone to irritation and ingrown hairs. From personal pov: I tried wax on small part of leg and endup with painfull rush for a month (my skin is generally fu*kedup). Sugar wax on face worked quite nice, but my hair regrow quite fast, so I still had to do this every week or two.
I remember seeing a professional trimmer user (aka a barber?) reviewing ManScape and it was hilarious how bad it was and every super special technologies they claim are just cheap versions of what trimmers had for decades.
Electric clippers like the ones used by barbers are definitely more powerful, especially the corded ones. What makes these trimmers like Manscaped or Meridian special is that the moving blade is ceramic and that they have a larger gap between the blades. This makes them much safer to use them directly on the skin without a guard. However, you still can use the corded Wahl "Peanut" clippers with the shortest guard (1-2 mm) for body grooming. I think this is the best value for money you can get.
@@DellaStreet123 my 36 dollar hair trimmer set came with a trimmer with ceramic blades, a poncho, a comb, 5 different attachments for the trimmer, a box. i used it for 7 years now. once it got weak, then i had to open some screws and clean the mechanics, put it together, and it works again. i never had an issue with it cutting me, and i stopped beeing cautiously with it like 6 years ago. and stop wasting your time, health and money with body grooming... not a single woman complained to me about body hair, when in bed, and i have hair from my feet to my head. if you come perfectly groomed and perfumed/oiled, youll never experience womans lying on you shoulder, smelling your armpits like a junky. :D
@@DellaStreet123 Safer?! It almost ate my sack. I’ve never bled so much from just skin. Their product is a poor imitation of a . All it does is catch skin. Unless of course you are just trimming hair. If you are trying to get a clean shave or a close shave, this ain’t it. If you’re trying bleed all over your bath mat, this is the product for you.
@@certaindeath7776 Have you ever asked specifically about it? Honesty is key. Don't use negative leaning opening question like. "You don't think...", etc. Most women keep their opinions to themselves very closely on sensitive subjects and you have to tease it out.
I feel like something as simple as shaving shouldn't even be this complicated in the first place, and the "problems" that Manscaped supposedly solves isn't even that big of a deal if you're not lazy or something idk
One thing I’d be interested in knowing that the video doesn’t address is from a pure cleanliness, sanitation and comfort perspective is there any value with shaving the area around the penis.
this happens more often than not, proving that RUclips's targeted advertising system is totally broken. for example, you could not pick a worse audience for a leftist YT viewer than a De Santis, Trump, or Daily Wire ad, and yet that's all most people ever see. I'm sure advertisers love their money going directly to the people least likely to click through!
And women especially care about their looks and are willing to pay a lot more for beauty care than men do. I had a boomer teacher who told me that "If a man is one degree prettier than the devil, that is good enough to find a wife." and he wasn't a woman hating incel either. He was married and had 4 children.
i feel like even that shouldn't work. While i don't buy into the concept necesarily if i wanted to "Feel special and manly" what's more manly than shaving with a 150 year old single hunk of sharpened steel? i have a straight razor i use that i found for a few bucks and cleaned it up and it not only shaves better than anything else ever, costs a LOT less longterm, i feel like a special badass when i use it FR. It's older than the constitution of the united states.
The biggest problem with manscape is how they trick you into buying a SUBSCRIPTION to their products without telling you. I forget how they did it to me (I bought the nose trimmer from a RUclipsr's affiliate link because it was ridiculously cheap). Basically if you don't uncheck a box when you add a product to the cart and check out, you will enter a subscription where they were literally replacing a big chunk of the trimmer very often. It was wasteful and expensive and you have to jump through hoops to unsubscribe. It was ridiculous. That is something I thought this video was going to address.
it's not really a "trick", and I never fell for it, despite having ordered 3 separate products from them over 5 years. You just need to have your eyeballs opened, and uncheck the box, or cancel the subscription after you buy. It's actually VERY easy to cancel, not even remotely difficult. My mom would have been able to do it, and she struggles to figure out what batteries a normal USB mouse uses. This is a "skill issue", not a "they're a dishonest, scummy, scammy company and they need to get sued" issue.
I would tell you to "read the fine print" but you found a tickbox so you have even fewer excuses to accuse them of trickery. I don't know how old you are, but this tactic in this form has existed since the early 2000s. Neither old nor young people have an excuse for falling for it. As for "jumping through hoops", just talk to your bank. They'll guide you through the minimum steps to give the offending biller a chance stop charging you before allowing you a chargeback. Your bank will literally just take your money away from Manscaped and punish them for it.
@@bobthebuilder609No, it is dishonest. Your consent shouldn't be assumed with you needing to opt out, it should be something you manually opt into by checking the checkbox instead of unchecking it.
They never sent me a notification about razor replacements that were about to ship. I had forgotten to cancel it and got a notification about it being shipped. Luckily, their customer service worked with me to get it cancelled and they gave a full refund.
I remember looking into manscaped and seeing that their trimmer was something like 100 canadian dollars, so I just went to walmart and got a trimmer that works just as well for 20 bucks lol
I had a similar experience. I usually just use safety scissors but I wanted something better after I once nicked myself. Looked at Manscaped and seeing it was like 90 bucks while a regular body trimmer that was 35 was rated better and had less customer complaints for using it in sensitive areas, less nicking, and so just got the cheaper option. Has worked great. Sucks that people charge more for a product that works the same or worse and get away with it.
You did not market it as such, but your own sponsored razor is incredibly visually attractive from a male perspective. It looks strong, minimalistic and almost handcrafted out of brass. It really speaks to the desire and admiration a typical man has for quality tools.
Seriously, the blouse example? Maybe go ask about how they are dry cleaned. There is a specific machine (a shirt buck) that is used on the vast majority of men's shirts whereas blouses tend to be more fragile and have a wild variety rendering them incompatible with a machine. Maybe choose an example you actually understand?
The vast majority of the time the "pink tax" is exactly this - people will compare products and say "see the women's is more expensive!" but they're not the same product.
Women’s razors are also more expensive to produce. The moisturizer pads are larger, more plentiful, with a higher quality moisturizer inside them. Their pink and yellow dyes are also more expensive and make plastic more brittle than black and green dyes, increasing R&D costs. Since women use razors on body hair, which is finer, blades on women’s razors tend to be thinner, which makes manufacture parameters stricter, therefore more expensive. Male athletes who need to shave off body hair, such as swimmers and cyclists, tend to buy women’s razors and electric trimmers for the blade profile and flexibility.
Not that I am totally immune to advertising or marketing or anything but it does constantly amaze me how easily people are influenced to buy into things they dont need! I love the fact, that at the end a man with a beard is trying to sell a razor! I love your work, another great video. Thanks!
@@kellymae2421 same, though admittedly, I've gotten manscaped ads long before this video. maybe the algorithm thinks i'm male so i'd have to check if I truly count in the 10%
As a gay guy, I do want to point out that I have been getting manscaped ads with drag queens in them for years. The ads you get might feel straight, but manscaped as a company definitely knows how to target and is actively targeting the gays. And we are basically the cornerstone of the male groom and especially the manscaping market.
Aside from back hair, I really wish guys wouldn't fuck around with their body hair. There is NOTHING sexy about a guy with shaved legs, or arms, and a prickly chest is absolutely yuk. Stop doing it, FFS!!
As someone who has to use wet wipes due to certain medical issues, I have to push back a little on the "don't use" tip. The thing is, I'm very aware that they are not "flushable", so I wrap and put them in the trash. Yeah, I know this is "gross", but it's responsible. I know that the plumbing folks have been trying to push back against companies putting "flushable" on these products. We need more public education on this front.
Great show. When I did my shaver research, it turns out manscape had tons of unhappy customers. Everyone recommend the Philips Multi-groomer, which is what I got and it's amazing.
I was trying to find one that was rechargeable and could be used while plugged in. My last Phillips had such a crappy battery that some mornings I just wanted to trim up, not wait 2 hours for a 20 min charge.
@@nslouka90 it sounds like you use it a lot and maybe that is why you had your experience. I'm not sure. It is certainly a valid concern. I use mine 2-3 month and the battery life is very good after 1 year.
Something also worth thinking about is that Manscaped has mostly been a direct to consumer company - they've cut out the middle man of high-street shops to ship the products straight from the OEM in China and get a lot more profit in doing so
That’s a good point! We normally talk about DTC businesses and I guess we got sort of used to saying it but it’s a big part of their success for sure 👍🏼
10:44 I'm buying for tech that specifically tells me it won't hurt my balls. I don't want body hair trimmer, i want private-protected trimmers. It's not the same thing AT ALL
I 100% agree that buying things just because they’re “for dudes” is dumb. I will say though a ball trimmer is a lovely addition to my medicine cabinet. I’ve always used electric trimmers and I got so so tired of constantly nicking myself. The difference is I went and found an alternative that cost me like $15 which does the exact same thing as the lawn mower. For me at least, if a product says it’s for women but does what I need it to do, why does it matter? Guys being so insecure that they can only buy things that are made for men specifically is so ridiculous to me.
I didn't know ball trimmers were a thing until they started being advertised. So it's not even insecurity most if the time, it's that by branding themselves as For Men products and advertising themselves they get to be seen before the neutral looking products do. And that way they become the "default" even though others may have come first.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I got the Lawnmower 4.0 on a promotional discount last year through one of the sponsor ads, and nicked myself the very first time, lol. We South Asian males are a harrier than average race; we also tend to struggle in the online dating scene thanks to American media desexualizing us. Manscaped seemed to pick up on this shit and came after me like I wish a hot girl on Bumble would, lol. Fortunately I've had the dumb luck of finding my special lady since then, and she never makes a big deal about my forest down under.
@@nahor88 Contrary to what advertising executives want you to believe, there's plenty of women who don't mind male body hair at all. That's what a man naturally comes with.
Just wanted to add that manscaped has sponsored drag queens on RUclips and a RPDR internet series. That’s how I first heard of them, and all of the “manly” grooming products.
Thanks for sharing this! We didn't see these sponsorships (to be fair it's kind of hard to search for this kind of thing) and the vast majority of their marketing is pretty much the opposite.
I have nothing against trans folk. Nothing wrong with that. But I don’t know why straight men want to take on ways of being effeminate. I started dating a woman awhile back. She asked me why I manscaped. She said, “I like my man to look like a man.” So I stopped the foolish behavior.
Came down here to reiterate the same thing! Never would have known about the product if it weren't for queer creators. I didn't even know they marketed so hard to the masculine aspect of manhood until this video
I've always been so annoyed with "for men" products. Sometimes they're just worse to use for the sake of being "manly." For example, I once opted for the Dove Men+ Care equivalent of their Beauty Bars because they happened to be cheaper. The only differences were some perfume in them (which I didn't like) and the fact that, despite being the same size as their Beauty Bars, they were made a lot more chunky and uncomfortable to hold. Because that's MANLY. I think the most perplexing "for men" product I've seen has been Head & Shoulder's for Men. WHAT MAN IS SO INSECURE THAT THEY FEEL EMASCULATED BUYING HEAD & SHOULDERS?!?
I will say I do prefer using Dove Men deodorant, soap, and conditioner just because regular Dove dries my skin out A LOT, to the point where my skin is cracking all over. Some things are formulated for men's body and skin, but that's very rare nowadays. A lot of it is bullcrap unfortunately.
@@ShirmaAkayaku Just to be clear, the Dove Beauty Bars were drying your skin out? They're literally designed to not do that, so that's really weird, but everyone's skin is different so yours must just respond differently than mine. Anyways, I am male and I do use them because on my skin they don't dry it out like regular soap does. Technically Beauty Bars aren't even soap. I definitely feel you on cracked skin, that's never fun. Mine does the same, especially on my hands, during the winter or often when the AC is running. ): EDIT: My selective reading missed the deodorant and conditioner part xD I definitely don't have experience with either their regular or men's lines for that, so I won't comment there.
@@weird-guy Here in the US where I am, I don't think H&S's advertising is specifically targeted at men, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of their customers are men. It's basically the default shampoo here. Which is what makes it so absurd that they made a men's specific version separate from the regular version.
@@AgentOrange96i still remember all the old head and shoulders ads featuring NFL players during sports games, as well as ads showing guys having a bad date bc a girl notices dandruff on his shoulder.
As a woman on the internet who happens to run in circles that are mainly dude focused (gaming content mostly), I honestly couldn't believe it when I heard none of the female writers had seen a manscaped ad before. I practically can't get away from them!
I will hear no hate for the dawn soap in the shower. If you look at the ingredients of dove "body wash" you'll see it doesn't actually consist of the same ingredients that soap does. Mostly it has ingredients that leave a film that makes your body feel smooth, but does not necessarily clean you. Add the extra ingredients for fragrance and they are essentially lying to you about your cleanliness. Studies have shown with certain body washes you actually come out of the shower with more bacteria on your body than you went in with. Dawn dish soap (the standard blue liquid one at least) has very standard soap ingredients and actually cleans what it is scrubbed onto. Yes it removes more oils, but if you are moisturizing (which you should be doing anyways) it shouldn't really be a problem. If you are finding your skin more dry than you'd like it's as easy as diluting the soap a bit with some water. I think both the men and women "soap" market is a huge scam designed to make women think if they don't smell like coconuts and feel greased up, they are ugly and for men if they don't smell like pine tar and glisten in the sun, no one will love them. To assume that just regular soap is, for whatever reason, bad or embarrassing is just feeding the problem.
@@AmericanBusinessman422 I said you should moisturize your skin because it's good for your skin. You'll notice I mentioned that you should probably being moisturizing regardless of what soap you are using to clean yourself with. I don't quite understand how that undermines what else I said in my comment.
The problem is that not all bacteria are evil. That's another marketing scheme from the "cleanliness industry" as I like to call it. And from that point of view, dishwashing soap is actually not as good as normal bodywash because it is usually way more aggressive and disrupts the natural bacteria on the skin which are supposed to be there and required to keep it healthy.
So you want me to wash with dish soap, which dries my skin, and then moisturize (which I absolutely don't need to do otherwise) to make up for it. OR I could not be an idiot, wash with regular body soap (simple and cheap stuff like Ivory works fine), not have dried out skin, not have to waste extra time and money moisturizing to undo the damage dish soap did to my skin. Seriously, the entire "you should moisturize anyway" thing is entirely wrong. If you don't use soap that dries out your skin, you don't have to moisturize it to stop it from being dry. It won't dry out and you don't need to moisturize, you will be fine. You've been scammed into using the wrong soap and been scammed again into using moisturizer to fix the damage you did to yourself with the wrong soap. Use the right soap without moisturizer and once your skin adjusts and corrects itself to this, you will be fine.
Thank you! As a man, who currently doesn’t even really shave or trim any of his body hair and has had no issues with it, these ads always made me crazy! Lmao
Few months late, but I’m a straight 27 year old guy who has shaved since 13. Balls and all pubic hair first, then the under arm 🤮 at 15, and of course the patchy as all get out “beard” I’m still cursed with. Joked about that one with my dad yesterday. All that said, I used whatever I could get my hands on. My two favorites are the one with aloe in the handle, and the double sided straight razor blade in a nice metal handle. You of course only replace the blades on that one. Extremely recently, I’ve purchased beard soap. I still nick myself near my lip, and when I shave too deep. I do it for me, the moment I see hair growing. 12/12 women didn’t care, and I think 11/12 were clean shaven too. I’m super grossed out by most men, but hey, live your best life.
Why though? Like, until recently I also never really shaved or trimmed anything, but I just didn't really mind the ads. Cause, like, I had already made up my mind that I was just not gonna bother with doing any of that, so I simply ignored those types of ads like I do with any others. Now recently I did start shaving but that was just because I started getting into the whole femboy-thing and, like, you know, I can't be a cute little femboy when I've got so much body hair that I might as well go shirtless during winter and a beard so long that I could literally wear it as a scarf XD
I have been shaving my head with a trimmer for over 2 decades now. I tried shaving my balls a few times when i was younger but now i do it more regularly with the same trimmer that i already have. FYI the trimmer i have i bought on sale for around $20 and its probably 10 years old at this point.
For equipment I bought a commercial grade Andis clipper with a #50 ceramic blade thirty years ago that works fine today. Blades last at least six years used on people and the quality crushes consumer clippers. I use it to shave my head too so it gets many operating hours. Commercial grade clippers are definitely worth buying because they save much more over time than they cost and ceramic blades save even more thanks to low replacement rates. Blade sharpening services exist (or if you own a surface or tool and cutter grinder you can do it yourself but I don't bother).
Thank you for this video. I love your channel and this video in particular. A was one of those 15 in 1 body wash guys until I started looking at the ingredients. I now use hand made Amish soap from a local farmer’s market and that is my entire “skin care routine”
When women complained about the «pink-tax» we meant «please stop charging more for the same product just because a woman uses it» not «make men’s products more expensive too» 😅 I guess now we are ALL (men&women) being shamed into taking care of ourselves 🤷♀️ Women: If you don’t use a nice deodorant,shave your armpits and legs you will never be attractive or feminin. Men: If you don’t use a nice (manly smelling) deodorant, bodywash and shave your downstairs you will never get a lady or be manly. Yay...equality 😑😑😑
The pink tax isn’t a real thing in terms of “the patriarchy”. It’s just because women’s products usually have more ingredients or they’re picking a fancier color. Same as how a red car is gonna sell for a lot more than a tan car.
@@acog_quarks8753 Absolutely. Pink plastic is more expensive than blue plastic, for instance, due to a more expensive pigment and that the plastic has to be heated to a higher temperature to color it pink
I've stuck with the PhilNo BoGro for 14yrs. No need to switch up because you can't fix what's not broken. A trimmer is a trimmer. All that matters is finding one that works for you.
Women’s clothes are made of more delicate fabrics and are usually more intricate, cleaning them requires more care. The difference between men’s and women’s razors are usually in the moisturizer pads, in which women’s typically contain more vitamins and minerals for skin care while men’s razor pads are more there for lubricant and spacing. Same thing with women’s soaps and shampoos. Men’s are mostly for just for cleaning and women’s have twice as many ingredients or more to provide additional care. For each of these besides dry cleaning, there are comparable bare-bones products that are comparable in price for both genders. Women either dell for the marketing OR just have higher standards for comfort and quality then men do and those luxury features are worth more to them than the money they’d save just using men’s razors and shampoo. Same thing with the clothing, simpler clothes would incur lower dry cleaning costs, but women’s average bar for fashion is high than average men’s. Aside from very specific items (menstrual care products), the pink tax is one of the few taxes you can by and large opt out of. The answer is not telling men not to buy in and properly groom themselves though. The answer is to starve those luxury products buy roughing it for a little bit until the price falls.
@@ungabungus01you could leave your basement once in awhile and go see the products for yourself instead of believing ideologues whose job should have stopped existing 40 years ago at the latest and would have if people like you didn't believe them without question.
@@RunicSigils Your reluctance to accept that the OP very likely made up their post either from thin air or based on some old wives tale and instead attack the one questioning you is a problem. Don't be so emotional and try to take an objective approach to things.
How is the OP controversial? You can look at the labels yourself next time you go for groceries. The underlying reason is probably a combination of societal norms, marketing, and capitalism. But the plain fact is clear: products marketed to women contain more and/or more complex ingredients. The more comparable products get, the more comparable the price gets.
I sorta fell for it about four years ago, but I actually did need a trimmer anyway (not for down under, particularly). I’d been through half a dozen crap trimmers in a couple years that were cheap, but barely held a charge, rapidly lost charge capacity, got dull easily, requiring an expensive blade change, and the list goes on. Right about that time Manscaped was marketing hard around UFC events, right when I was thinking I needed something better. While it seems almost certain I could have found something equivalent for cheaper, I must say it’s a quality beard trimmer. It holds a charge for weeks, hasn’t lost charge capacity, I get 6-9 months between blade changes, and has done this for years now. I use a Henson safety razor to shave, but, due to laziness I inevitably end up with a beard that has to be trimmed down before the razor shave can happen, so that’s where the “Hedge Trimmer” (I never call it that) comes in. While admittedly, the gimmicky nature of it makes me feel a little bit like a mark, I can’t say I particularly regret the purchase.
Don't feel bad about it, I like this channel, but I get a superiority complex vibe in some ways. If you find joy from it, why should you feel guilty about it? It's ironic, Future Proof is accusing Manscape for making men feel inferior so in turn they make the men who buy their products feel inferior. I was hoping to find a REAL problem from this video about this product and all I got from it is the same spiel we've heard before: "Marketing bad because it makes me feel bad". Groundbreaking 😂
Personally I just jump in the washing machine, with dishes too. me clean, dishes clean, clothes clean, perfect. Though I do set it to eco, I'm not a monster
Yeah but this is specifically for wet-wiping one's bumhole. You'd really want to flush those to get rid of them. It's cleaner to give one's browneye a little wash, but you can just put a bit of soap and water on normal toilet paper if you want to. Then again with just water to rinse. Then one to dry. The pre-bought wet wipes are some polymer stuff that will "flush" as far as going down a toilet, but end up causing huge problems for sewage infrastructure. It doesn't dissolve like paper does.
To be honest, the product is good and one blade can last you a long time! And it is easy to use :) And yes, you can buy any trimmer, but if it doesn't work it would be hard for you to get your money back
Women's blouses cost more to dry clean because their shape and size is much more varied, requiring hand washing vs the men's shirts, which went through a machine. The dry cleaning shop from that infamous "pink tax" study explained it when journalists actually bothered to interview them about it. Women's razors are not "exactly the same" as men's. They Have larger surface area and different metallurgy for the blades because they're adapted for use on different parts of the body and softer skin.
A safety razor of any kind would save you so much money and can do all kinds of shaving needs! These marketing gimmicks are targeting those who do not know. Thanks for sharing these videos to prevent companies from preying on the mass's weaknesses/ inferiority complex.
I have been using one for years, but not going to lie, I wouldn't be shaving my balls with it 😅 Not to say I haven't, but it is a bit of a high risk game especially if you have a fresh blade 😂
@@skartimus I think the key with nut shaving with a manual razor is just to do a little bit at a time. Stretch a bit of skin over a finger so it doesn't move about. Also most nutbags tend not to have a large number of hairs.
@@greenaum If you have to chose between walking a tightrope between cutting on flab of nutsack or another or using a electric grooming tool, just use the electric grooming tool.
@@UnknownGamer40464 Definitely not advocating that, just saying for the 'Manscaped' selling point, a safety razor does have a gap in its game there 😂 I've done it and regretted it, I stick to trimming now.
I am a female who bought a Manscaped Lawn Mower to use on my pubic hair. After watching this video, I realized it was just the first nice body shaver like this this that I had seen advertised. I had one from target before but it was not built to last and did not have replaceable parts. I have had mine for a few years and it has worked great for me! But now I’m seeing female targeted ads for similar shavers and wishing I had gotten one of those!
The use of Chat GPT in this video felt really out of place. There didn’t seem to be any point to it, and it didn't really serve a purpose. Citing Chat GPT in what is intended to be an informative video makes the points you are trying to make seem less credible, at least to me personally. It's not a search engine, it just makes things up and nothing it says should be trusted. You did go on to say that you did some amount of research to verify its claims, but I still think it isn't a good look and you would have been better off omitting it entirely.
Pretty sure he was using it because it’s a consolidation of the information you would find if you spent researching everything on your own! I like to think he did it as sarcasm or because everyone else uses it for the videos! Or the possibility because everybody uses it and thinks that GPT model is like an all knowing genius, the credibility of that section of the video may be like “ oh, it was chat, GPT that said that, makes sense”!
3:45 The difference between men and women's razors isn't just the color. Also the reason women's blouses cost more to dry clean than men's shirts is because women's blouses tend to be made of more delicate materials.
Honestly at this point I never trust endorsements or affiliates after all the bad ones and ones where they are in conflict with another company selling a similar product. Especially the homelander one 😂
As a gay man, I feel very conflicted about this new marketing strategy. On one hand the marketing is really cringy and exploitative. But on the other hand, it's teaching straight men How to be more hygienic.
Oh please (serious eye roll) There’s NOTHING hygienic about manscaping. That is a total myth used to justify something done for transitory fashion reasons only. I’m a 66-year-old guy with a hairy body. My hygiene has never suffered because of it.
There's nothing hygienic about excessive grooming. The guy who never washed his ass isn't going to magically use this, and the average guy that didn't trim used a basic soap. Having specialized items seems pretentious, not hygienic
Yeah straight man are so non hygienic that STD is common in our community. Oh wait nvm. I was mean on purpose there's no difference in hygienic between straight or homosexual, it's just stereotype. Shaving balls isn't for hygiene but for look. Self-care is not related o hygiene. Hygiene is taking a shower and shampoo, bushing your teeth, cleaning your ears (not to often its self cleaning). Shaving balls, shaving around the dick is for look. I've seen/smell/taste vagina/dick dirty but still shave.
@@Nicksonian to clarify. I was not trying to make any statements on manscape as a product and manscaping as a routine. I was talking generally about how it markets itself. And if you think I was trying to say that manscaping was important to hygiene, that was not the intention. Wow! This video does cover manscape as a product. It covers more than just that it covers body wash, wiping your butt, having a skin care routine.
I'm really thankful women spend thousands of years trying to get different skincare and grooming techniques to work for them so most men could just now grab 1-3 products and become dewy and sharp-lined
On wet wipes, the UK has a certification mark for wet wipes which actually require them to pass a water industry test which is called "fine to flush" and the products that use it are much more like paper and pulls apart easily and even disolves sitting in water
I can't recall from where, but I'm sure that mark is only for single wipes being flushed at a time. If you put multiple "fine to flush" in the loo and flush then apparently it's just as bad as regular ones.
We did a huge project with the local waste water treatment company, let me tell you, that fine to flush certification means nothing, under IDEAL laboratory testing with nothing else, sure they disintegrate but in real life, when you have tons of them clumped together along with all the other shit that goes to the waste treatment plant and our woefully overburdened sewage systems, they do not disintegrate, and they definitely do not dissolve. That certification basically leaves 0 room for error and they are definitely not OK to use if you have a septic tank (my family found this out the hard way)
The Fine to Flush ‘wet wipe’ certification will come to an end in March 2024. The Government, in their Plan for Water, also committed to supporting Water UK’s behaviour change campaign ‘Bin the Wipe’ and to consulting on a ban on wet wipes containing plastic. The water industry will continue to work with Government and other stakeholders to encourage customers to dispose of wet wipes appropriately through the Bin The Wipe campaign.
Just so people are aware "flushable" wipes doesn't mean you should flush them down the toilet. In a legal setting it just means you CAN flush them down a toilet, not that you should. The laws haven't caught up yet since I don't think a single case came up to change the meaning of flushable that you can flush them without blocking a toilet. Instead it just means that you literally can flush them, even if it would be unwise to.
I have one of the silicone soap sleeve things. While it does help with grip, I really like it because it makes the soap last a lot longer. It doesn't really exfoliate, more so spread the soap. The one I use is the Sud Stud. If you use bar soap, I'd actually recommend it.
@@prerecordedresponse9884how do you shave in the shower? do you apply shaving gel and when you're done you just wash it all away or do you use just the water as lubricant?
I’m probably more high maintenance than most guys. It’s partially due to having acne most my life and partially from being a bit ocd. However no one likes to be around someone who stinks or is kinda nasty. I take a lot of pride in having clean clothes each day, smelling good, and having good breath. I’ve definitely used manscaped and tried a lot of “men’s brands”, most are just okay and you can find less expensive alternatives. Edit: dude wipes smell better than baby wipes lol
Men tend to buy things for their utility, and not solely because something is marketed well. In the case of the Manscaped trimmer, i bought the Lawn Mower 5.0 trimmer over the Philips trimmer, even though it was double the price simply because it had USB-C for charging rather than the proprietary charger that all the other trimmers use. Because their company is less than a decade old, they're able to provide products with more utility and iterate quickly; it's not all marketing.
You compared the individually wrapped Dude Wipes to the bulk pack Cottonelle wipes which is why the cost was so different. The individually wrapped ones are designed to carry a few around with you but they are way more expensive than the regular packs. Dude Wipes are still more expensive but no where near to this degree. Coming from someone who has tried pretty much every brand the Dude Wipes really are the best.
9 years ago I spent bought two $15 corded trimmers, one for my private parts, and one for my public parts. The only two downsides I can see when compared to these $90 personal trimmers are mine are not water proof, and I have to be near a power outlet. I’ll keep my $60 for that trade off….
Funny enough, many products like the Manscaped products are only water resistant and not water proof. So your corded trimmers are as good if not better for the fact that trim speeds remain the same as you have no batteries going dead everyday😂 so way less pulling and jammed blades.
I brought a professional hair cutter that cost $90. It is vastly superior to these cheap, plastic toys. I don’t care if it has to be plugged in because I only use it in my head and goatee. Why would I use it anywhere else…
I will say I used the Manscaped Lawn Mower and I love it. I was also nervous to shave down there with a regular razor, and it does do a good job at protecting you from cuts 99% of the time. I also have a Leaf Razor for my face, but wouldn’t want to shave my business with the same thing I use for my face, and I’d be very worried to cut myself (as I have done with my face lol).
2:55 Not sure if you're saying using Dish Soap to shower isn't a problem or not, but I just want to clarify that it indeed is. Dish soap is designed to clean dishes and remove grease and grime, it is not intended for use on your skin when taking a bath. Dish soap can be harsh and may strip your skin of its natural oils, leading to dryness, irritation, and potential allergic reactions.
I will say though... The "Pink Tax" is a bit more complicated than you are saying here... For instance, the dry cleaning thing. Men's shirts tend to be very standard and simple, so you can easily throw it on a inflating thing and boom done. Women's shirts though often require much more time and and effort as they are made of many materials, have things on them, and are generally far less uniform so they are dry cleaned differently. Same with "men's haircuts vs women's haircuts." Men's haircuts tend to be cheaper because they tend to be far simpler, where as women tend to have far more styled hair with more complex cuts. So it is a far more complex issue than you are saying.. Heck even things like lotions are not like for like as men's products tend to lack any perfumes where as women's products are scented.
Even the razors aren't "literally the same thing but pink". I wound up getting a men's razor during COVID since the carts for my particular brand (Flamingo, the ladies' version of Harry's) is carried by fewer stores locally, so adding in crazy supply chain problems, I went with the men's option temporarily. The result was me constantly getting shaving cuts until supply chains normalized and I could get the Flamingo ones again. Also, if you look at the websites for Harry's and Flamingo, a new handle plus one cart runs $8 or $10, with the ladies' option actually being the cheaper option here. It's almost like product design is a lot more complicated than some middle class internet "activists" who suck at shopping and make all their money complaining about things would lead us to believe.
@@MissRoraYou really ought to try out a safety razor, they are super cheap so worst case you're out like $12. It's miles better than any other type of razor I ever tried, then again maybe my problem was always using men's razors.
you see, the only reason why I bought my 4.0, even tough I already had a Phillips trimmer, and a really good one, is because I cutted myself like 4 times down there. I was aware of the product since 2.0 but didn’t justify the price for the trimmer, until this happened to my wife too, and I was like “Let’s get a skin safe trimmer for both of us” and it worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m happy with the product.
I have a Persian cat who gets fur-matts in his armpits sometimes , I find the lawnmower 4.0 works reasonably well for light amounts of cat shaving as well to help get the mattes out.
I read somewhere years ago, that marketers couldn't get men to buy more underwear no matter what they did, so their solution's was to gussy up men's underwear & charge more for it.
I agree with everything you said, and I will add that the ethics become even more questionable when the ads are targeted at teens and pre-teens, whose bodies and brains are going through a lot of changes. I first learned about Manscaped as a brand years ago from a barely pubescent teenager who was led to believe he had to remove all body hair to be considered not gross. Manscaped knows that they make money off of making children hate their natural bodies. But they’re okay with it. Also, for those out there still wondering, the suggestion that a reduction in hair (or complete lack of hair) makes someone more desirable is wrong. You groom for you. Or don’t. It’s your preference.
I will say this. I bought into the marketing and got one of their electric razors, largely because I hate my ultra hairy legs, and any time I tried to shave with normal razors, my (apparently) sensitive skin would be destroyed for weeks and it just wasn't worth it. But since my legs give me dysmorphia, hey, Manscaped. The reason I went with them, is because it was sold as "expensive but worth the price." And frankly... yeah, it's been worth it. I have a trusty electric razor, for any shaving needs I have. I can use it wet or dry, and it is simple and easy to clean, and the only part that needs replacing is the actual razor, which I never have replaced, and it's still working fine (I don't have a lot of hair, so results may very). So, frankly, I paid a lot for quality and I got it. So I can't be too mad, even if their marketing is a bit silly. I frankly don't mind it. Because let's be frank, the memes about men not cleaning are there for a reason; most men are nasty AF, and if Manscaped's marketing is trying to pull to "Overton Window of Men's Grooming" slightly more to the "at least he wipes his butt" side of the spectrum, I can only kind of support that.
Oh man, hairy legs on a guy are sooooooo hot. Definitely not on a woman, though, lol. Yeah, double standards...sue me! Shaved, or trimmed, male body hair is a major turn-off for me. Just looks wrong. And feels horrible & prickly. I wish I could change your mind about your hairy legs! 😉
I’m glad I read this, it validates my purchase of this year’s Amazon Prime Day sale and upon glancing the title, I felt frustration and buyers remorse. It’s not like I can sell it used or give it away to someone as a gift! I suppose I may as well stick to it. At least it’s waterproof.
@@ezyglide0909 Yeah, definitely not worth buyer's remorse. Are there better razors out there? Maybe. Is this the best one on the planet? No. But it's a solid 7/10, and if that's all you were looking for, that's a passing grade in school, so it's a passing grade for me!
ah so that's why I've heard of them before! I was finding it weird that none of the women in the writing team had seen their ads, I've seen them quite a lot - I guess I confused the gendered algorithm 😆
I've known from the get-go that it was all marketing. Go into any appliance store and there are 100 different trimmers for men, all pretty much the same if the price is similar. Why would Manscaped be different? It's a trimmer, not a superconductor. And super good, high-quality trimmers exist. Barbers have had them for decades. They probably cost 20x what a regular one does and can run forever but if you're trimming your beard alone a few times a week most of the things you can get for like 50$ will do.
First off, taking care of your downstairs parts has less to do with appearances and all to do with comfort. It’s unfair to claim we suddenly care how we look. Second, wet wipes are so much better and everyone should be using them. Don’t tell people to stop using them, tell people to stop FLUSHING them. Why would anyone ever think wiping with a dry paper would work better in any way than a slightly moisturized fabric? If it’s good enough to keep babies butts clean then it’s good enough to keep my butt clean. Third, the “pink tax” has been largely blown out of proportion. The way it’s referred to these days is basically a myth. There are plenty of instances where one product is more expensive than another, but the market doesn’t rely on TWO products. There are even more products that COST LESS. But nobody ever talks about that because it’s inconvenient for their argument. The fact is we’re all getting screwed and it’s time to stop dividing the genders.
In regard to their marketing showing an exaggerated version of traditional masculinity: We have a direct example of what would happen if they suddenly did a u-turn from that with the bud light fiasco. They are pigeonholed into doing that exact strategy, as that is what serves their core audience
@@hatless_spider Back sometime in the 2000’s they came out with an ad campaign. Complete with orgasmic behaviour (ala You Got Mail). Not sure what woman they were marketing. I didn’t like it. Was an awkward commercial. Tasteless. As a woman I was their audience, I didn’t like the commercial. What type of dumbass thinks a woman will appreciate seeing another woman having an orgasm shampooing their hair? Anyway, I haven’t bought since. I don’t know, maybe it wasn’t the best example, but it was relevant to me.
I've been critical of some of your older videos, but this time I completely agree. And in general, apart from the problematic gendered aspects of marketing nowadays, I think consumers should be extra suspicious of aggressive marketing of products that suddenly everybody seems to be recommending in social media like RUclips. Most of the time it is fundamentally disingenuous. Best example I can think of was those MVMT "premium" watches that created a huge buzz a few years ago. They were cheap quartz mechanisms surrounded by pretty low grade materials like plain painted metal faces, swede straps and awful reflective acrylic bezels instead of glass. But the company approached many youtubers who had a large following of young men and had them "review" them. Amazingly, they were all saying the exact same things, claiming these watches were precisely what they were not: Minimalist (not because they were too cheaply made to feature anything intricate at any level), with nicer materials for their price (again, like suede and acrylic), well designed (cause nothing says class more than thick, oversized watches with a powder-coated plain metal face) and above all, cleverly and tastefully conceived in order to offer quality and style at a very affordable price (especially if you fail to realize that they should be priced 30 dollars instead of 90). For a while it seemed like everybody in their early 20's was bamboozled into thinking they were something special, just because everybody at RUclips was saying so. Oh, they were supposedly able to sell such a nice product so "cheaply" because of their innovative business model of selling only online, which they pretty soon proved was bullshit by opening physical stores and replacing their range with models that were closer to 300 dollars. To me, every time I see a product being suddenly hyped by lots of people at RUclips, it automatically raises suspicions that it's just a like others that already existed and its only point of distinction lies in aggressive and disingenuous online marketing.
@@Nicksonian I used to dislike some of his videos in the past because from my perspective, they seemed to be advocating for some lifestyle that claims some form of sustainability, but is not affordable to many people out there. I think this sustainability-as-personal-responsibility thing that does not focus on holding corporations accountable appeals mostly to people who might have become affluent under this economic system that destroys the environment, so now they can buy better and more expensive stuff and claim to be following a less harmful personal lifestyle as a bonus, so it must be other people's fault for not doing the same. I don't mind his more recent videos that present some brands and products, trying to separate facts from hype in a somehow objective and informative manner. They seem to be doing what the author is claiming, more or less. Also, I've got nothing in particular against original hipsters, fight me 😛
@@PinkAsAPistol I completely agree. Have you seen the kitchen countertop composter that costs $500? A perfect example of what you say. Where I often disagree with this channel is that they are frequently poorly researched, seem to offer way more opinion than fact by criticizing by speculation. As a retired journalist, I find many of their presentations very weak. Kramer was the original hipster-doofus. He was great. The problem with the breed is that they live on a knife edge of either being hugely magnetic and original, or just annoying. This guy is falling towards the annoying side of the fence, partly because he almost always comes around to pushing an alternate product which feels like a hidden agenda…or a way to boost advertising income.
@@Nicksonian Oh I can imagine, even though I'm a place in the EU where we haven't got round to using composters. I equally love it when this kind of brands realize that most can't buy these things, so they invite you to go big with small stuff. Like the 25-dollar sustainable toothbrush, with the rationale being that surely you can pay 25 dollars for an item, cause even if you're poor, you're not that poor, are you? Even though if you paid 25 dollars instead of 3 and generally multiplied by 8 the price of each and every one of your essential items for the purposes of quality and sustainability, you'd have to be rich, and then the question would have to be by what fair and sustainable way you became one. Surely I'm living a non-sustainable life by using plastic toothbrushes that I then keep and reuse to clean stuff like devices, shoes etc that other people don't tend to take care of so they throw them away much sooner. To the rest of your points, it's not my primary field of knowledge to be able to tell if there are inaccuracies to some of his videos, and it might take quite a bit of specific research to fact check some of them, but the ones I've seen seemed reasonably ok to me as far as I could tell. There's only so much you can do in an easily digestible part-informative part-entertaining video as well. And the vested interests of having to play the game of the influencer are ever-present for everybody who creates content for a living, so being completely objective while playing that game is a rarity obviously. I've probably been one of the first antrhopotypes that would be labeled a hipster in the start of '10s. You know, musician, listening to underground bands, liking flannel and beards, but it didn't seem like a particular breed then. The crucial thing is that being broke all the time, you might also be looking for alternative ways to do some nice things for yourself, like search for vintage clothing to find something that floated your boat and that you could not buy otherwise, or restore an old steel road bicycle because new carbon bikes where upwards 2000 euros, or want to take up photography and buy an old film camera because a good DSLR was out of your budget. Suddenly that thing seemed to have a name, everybody aspired to be a hipster but dreaded being called as such and I wouldn't see why I should be offended, at least until it became a new consumerist trend pushed by corporations who wanted us to buy new cool stuff that would make us show our individuality by being all the same lol.
If I see lots of ads for a product, I would never buy that. Not necessarily because it's a bad product or a bad idea, but because I don't like ads, especially targeted ads that try to manipulate
Manscaped is telling you you must do something that you don’t need to do. Manscaping has nothing to do with hygiene. It’s about market share and the modern woke trend the makes men effeminate.
Same with me. I'm getting ads for hair removal products and devices by the dozen, and the more I get, the less I want to start shaving again. Every once in a while, I drop a comment. Sometimes it's quickly deleted, but frequently, I actually get an answer. A cocky answer that certainly will not persuade me to give those people my money. -- As a kid, I would read the Country Gentleman's gazette cover to cover each month, and the final pages were always dedicated to ads for studs. Small ones, larger ones, with and without a picture. Singular ads, recurring ads. I couldn't help but noticing the large ads for a particular stud. Look, Daddy, I said, Sailing Swan is in it again, large ad, with a picture. Must have cost them a plenty. My father's reaction: They must be desperate for customers.
I always wondered why anyone in their right mind would pay that much money for a cheap plastic trimmer when you can buy a good quality metal trimmer for half the price, I bought my stainless steel Phillips norelco trimmer like 3 years ago and it never disappoints.
The leafshave is super expensive for what it is. Atleast in Europe you can get very similar quality for literally a third of the price, while still being very robust, all metal safety razor shaver
How many blades do you need in a razor anyway? One used to be plenty for every man in the world up until the mid '80s when Gilette and Wilkinson took turns "inventing" revolutionary new razors with one more blade than the other. I'm happy enough with a twin-blade cheap supermarket thing. It's not a space station, it cuts little hairs.
The part he didn't tell you is that leaf shaver starts at 84 Dollars. They also appear to be based heavily on aesthetics which tells me they probably don't shave all that well.
Eh, I got one and I like it. I'm a woman and I use it on my legs but I got my bf to try it when I first bought it and he said it was a good shave just needed to adjust to the different weight/balance of it compared to his usual razors.
I have and still occasionally will use DAWN in the shower, it's GREAT at removing grease and dirt off skin without drying it out, and it's cheap compared to some of the specialty cleaners used by mechanics etc and works just as good.
It's more just that you can get the same thing for as fraction of the price elsewhere. Their markups are insane, especially when they're already saving money buying common designs strait from China and advertising for cheap through places like RUclips.
As a 50yr old woman, I was use to my boyfriends and then my husband using generic trimmers. They all had a set of blades and used them for whatever needed trimming based on hair length. I have the same trimmer set as hubby because the pink tax is real. Hubby bought us both the same trimmer set for Valentine’s Day 😂❤
@@lifebarier my man all you have to do is leave your mom's basement, visit a grocery/convenient store, and compare trimmers of similar performance. one from the lady's category, and another one that's neutral. ironic you ask people to "do research" when you can't even do that.
@@卛 Follow your own advice. Compare them. They are not same - different blades, different plastic (yes, pink pigment is more expensive than blue you dimwit). Hell, one company even had mini documentary on how they are different. Same with shampoo, same with antiperspirants (different formulations). But why am I explaining this to someone who just listens what propagandists say.
@@卛 Okey the pink tax is real, cause pink plastic costs more overall than most other plastics such as blue or black. And even then it's not the same products, the ingredients and the amount of each, heck even when it comes to razors the shape and sometimes even the type of steel the razor is made up off is different cause men and women overall have different skin structure and men's razors are rougher overall. So you are right there is a pink tax per se, but you are delusional to think that its' literally just a tax cause it's a female products that is "just the same". Bet you go into a car dealer and see a Ferrari and a Volkswagen Golf and say they are just the same as well then I guess. --- Just to add another one, he mentioned clothing costing more at dry cleaner. Yeah they cost more cause women's clothing are less standard shaped, and there are a lot more curves and cuts at varied proportions with something like a blouse, as well as the material can be thinner and less robust, so there is a way higher need for doing manual work there that can't done with a dryer dummy or the something more automated cause it will not do the job good enough or can damage it. There is a lot more to it all than fooling women to pay more for the same or nothing extra. That isn't to say that companies won't do that as well and at least try to do it, but they do that for every product. It just happens to be that men are seemingly caring more about the price for the direct value of use than women are to just get the better perceived value even if it costs more than they would like, and you see this in all of marketing.
@@TheAsgardRaven all of that just to say you don't know shit about economics. what you fail to understand is this: nobody's saying the pink tax exists due to some anti-women agenda. it does exist but the reason is simply supply and demand. women have more demand for certain items. they're priced higher. the demand doesnt diminish regardless of the price. so companies can afford to jank things up further. that's all there is to it, and it's real. it exists. again, why the mountain of text when you can just go outside to see it in grocery stores?
My mom likes the more fruity, feminine type Dr. Squatch soaps. I prefer the wood and booze scented ones. And yes, she has the soap gripper. I can’t help but wonder how much soap that contraption wastes. 😅 It smells great and I can be glad I’m not absorbing the crap that companies like Dove put in their products. I always just felt . . . off after using it. And the smell? My nostril hairs were always on fire.
About 3 years ago I bought a highly rated hair trimmer from Amazon. It is made of metal and has the weight and balance of a well made piece of equipment. I've never done any maintenance to it other than brush off hair debris and yet it works just as well today, as it did the first time I used it. It still looks brand new. I imagine one day when I'm gone (hopefully in 20+ years) one of my kids will find it and say "Oh this is dad's beard trimmer" and they will turn it on and it will still be running perfectly. Spend a little more up front and buy a quality product.........you save money in the long run.
The problem with the video is it was written by a woman who has never used the product and has no familiarity with it. Delivered by a man whose never used said product. I guess I'll just ask an ai next time.
lol i literally used blue dawn in the shower yesterday. i was being a grease monkey and it worked better than the orange stuff. but really, i just use a local bar soap for everything. I'll also note, the trimmer is great. i don't use anything with alcohol or chemicals on my skin tho, 99% of the time.
@@Nos2113 keep in mind osmosis. you shouldn't willingly apply things to your skin that you wouldn't eat, as a general rule. i mean if you get motor oil on you, you wash it off. also, most products dry your skin and cause a hydration imbalance. you should really treat skin care products like you do your pantry.
I've never understood women complaining about the pink tax. If men's and women's razors are the same, except for the colour, then just buy the men's razor
That's what many of us do. Unfortunately, we still have to buy period products. However, there's still a stigma surrounding women buying men's products, which of course, is the nature of the beast, which is gendered marketing.
Do period products count as a pink tax item as there is no equivalent for men? I'm sorry but I stand by what I said. If anyone is buying anything that's more expensive than an identical item, purely because of "the stigma", that's on them, just don't buy it.
@@shanemjnperiod products ARE the pink tax. so are makeup products, etc. since without them, women look “unprofessional” and are far less likely to be deemed professional and employable since they aren’t “presentable” in todays societal standards. i understand what you are trying to get at, but stigma is a surprisingly strong force, i mean, just look at how many men have mental health problems since it’s so stigmatized for men to be tough and not get therapy
Period products aren't pink tax. You don't need a disposable razor, you can buy a handle or whatever it is called and use safety razorblades. Women have periods, but there are no cheaper options for men. Thare is no evil marketing strategy behind period products.
Make Up is maybe the norm in professional high paid settings but most women I see in real life don't wear Make Up. Does your job require wearing Make Up? Have you tried not wearing Make Up and talk to your Boss? Or is it customer expectations?
Same applies to “kid” products. Some lady in the store told me: “it is expensive, but it is your kid, you won’t be saving on kid, yes?” 🤯🤯🤯 It’s good that I was buying to my friends kid, and 1 time purchase is not that bad for my wallet 😂
Fun Fact: I actually showered with dish soap a few times back when I was still in school. I'd always commute 3 miles back to my folks place, since living on campus was like 11k. Yet my friends stayed on campus and went to the gym a lot, so since it was convenient, harmless, and pretty easy I threw in a bottle of dish soap. (Wasn't gonna spend enormous amounts of money on body wash, just for a quick one a day or week gym shower.)
After trail and error, I found you can use one of the Gillette 5 blade razors on your junk and you’ll be fine. Just go in the right direction and don’t go nuts (no pun intended) Follow up: You can use it in the shower and just be careful and not rough. Also make sure it’s clean. I’ve even bought barber spray for that reason to make sure things are sanitized. And if you want to you can use some lotion/after shave or something afterward. Don’t be lazy about it if you care about that part of your body
They sponsor a lot of RUclips videos, and some people haven't learned the role that if they sponsor lots of RUclipsrs, it's because they're selling low quality for a high price. Landscape, raycon, Ridge, they all do the same thing. Cheap product branded well and advertised by "trendy" RUclips's, sold for multiple times the price of identical or even better quality products.
The only marketing for these I've seen have been sponsored segments on youtube vids. Though some reviews I've read say they nick just as much as any other trimmer does. Side note: wet wipes are fine, just don't flush em. use a trash can
No joke, the pre-roll ad for this video was a Manscaped ad. I'm dying 😂😂😂
Same for me 😂😂
3 minutes in, bam, manscaped ad
So, I suppose I'm amongst the 10 / 💯of people watching I'm a grown woman and all I think if a guy says he's manscaping or has shaved his legs and arms is okay I guess you're gay Or maybe training for the olympics. Or trying to get me in the sack ASAP. I do appreciate a dude not letting a forest grow, yet if you have no hair in places that are supposed to have some??! One psycho told me he was getting his chest waxed. WTF I said that is a turn OFF. So GROSS.
TranScaped
was just about to write a comment when i saw you took the words outta my mouth a whole 3 weeks ago lmfao
My wife bought women's razors for years and I always thought it was kind of dumb since disposable razors are really bad for tons of reasons. One year for Christmas I bought her a proper safety razor since I had recently switched to using one and loved it. Both of ours are simple shiny silver razors with no frills or gender skew to them and she LOVES hers. She gets a better shave, pays basically nothing for the blades, and hasn't had to replace the handle or anything because it's just solid stainless steel.
It just blows my mind that these companies have gotten so effective at convincing people inferior products work better, and that they can get away with charging more by changing the color.
That's it! Glad you found a better alternative!
my favorite so far is mouth care. especially teeth whitening. first convince everyone they need teeth whiter then white. sell them a product that does it. then everyone gets sensitive gums from that. sell them a new product to deal with sensitive gums. i've gotten to the point that i'm wondering if the whole hygiene thing is just a giant conspiracy to make not just a sale. but a service that you can never escape from once you're subscribed into it
My significant others just always used my razors which was so annoying, because I would buy the ones they asked for. They were more expensive too like WTF?
I will share the last of my food. Give you my hoody or jacket in the freezing rain. Hell I will become a living donor...
Just don't touch my razor whore!
My man, what’s the brand?
@@MaxContagionwell they did literally create the “disease” halitosis (bad breath) in order to sell mouth wash by making people feel insecure about their regular breath smell.
3:47 Actually that says "women's products cost MORE 42% of the time", not that they cost "42% MORE". Big difference!
Glad someone else pointed this out
Masculinity hurts the guy's feelings.
@@michaelsoutherland3023Manscaped doesn't sell masculinity, just a cheap imitation of it.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug There are deeper issues in this video than a specific brand name.
I use Wahl, serves no other purpose but trimming hair, and most are made in USA.
@@michaelsoutherland3023 Conair - very well made and lasts forever. Repairable. I had a clipper for nearly 30 years. Replaced the hard wired battery myself a couple times before I got sick of holding it together with duct tape and got a new one with li-ion battery. So over the last 40 years or so, I've spent $50 on trimmers. Yep.
A big issue with the 'Pink Tax' is that it does not address the R&D that goes into the product. Not just marketing, because marketing wank is what marketing wank is, but production. I.E. It costs more for pink dye for the plastics to make the razors than it does blue dye. Womens razors generally have more padding on the lubrication strip because men and women generally shave different areas of skin. Just look at the products you picked, Gillette Fusion 5 vs Gillette Venus model. VERY different appearance, and in function, not just 'different color, but same manufacturer, must mean same product'.
Drycleaning is a different creature altogether. Men's shirts are generally the same tubular shape, and a machine can be used to press/steam them much easier than women's clothing, because women's clothing is more contoured. Don't just look at the price and product and go "Oh, it's exactly the same" because there are key differences that are NOT just color or the 'for men/women' labels to consider. Please, do feel free to fact check that, walk into whatever store sells a good amount of hygiene products and REALLY look at those ingredient lists for men's products and compare them to women's products. You'll find notable differences between them.
This is not to say that there isn't a markup there, it's the REASON for the markup that 90% of people seem to get totally wrong.
It's almost as is the channel has a ideological bent on that topic. As anyone with functinoal eyes can see women's razors are build better for their typical use and arguably last longer.
I didn't even get why he included the pink tax. Not just stup*d, but he was basically saying marketing is a tax against the target audience.
What annoyed me most about their commercials was that they try to make you feel insecure about the most trivial thing like the hair on your knuckles. Shaving your knuckles (or taint for that matter) has nothing to do with hygiene and everything to do with being suckered into thinking that your very normal body hair is keeping you from getting laid.
Are they advertising about hair on knuckles? lmao
It's like they are using the usual women body shaming tactics to the men now.
I’m sorry to break it to you lil bro, but women don’t like bushes. I have never in my 20+ years of macking on hoes, had one say “can you grow your bush out” but I have had a few ask me to trim it down. Your giant bush will absolutely (potentially) prevent you from getting laid. Do your lady friends and yourself a favor and invest in an electric trimmer, lawnmower or not.
They already roped women into shaving all kinds of stuff, now they're going for men.
The ancient Egyptians shaved their entire body, including eyebrows - shaving companies had taken over their society.
whats ironic is that shaving actually makes you prone to infections, like how removing your nose hair introduces dust in your lungs kinda things
As a single mom for 18 years, I must say that I was very unhappy when they started focusing on men’s stuff. I had, up to that point, saved a goodly amount each year by purchasing male-oriented “beauty” or “grooming” products instead of the pink kind.
Yeah sadly the days of cheap razors for "dudes" is behind us...
They still have the regular stuff so just keep with the old packaging.
@@FutureProofTV safety razors are the way...
Why use razors?
You only damage and dry out your skin.
Waxing lasts for weeks and destroys the follicels of unwanted hairs over time.
I started waxing at 17 and now at 23 I already have thinner hair on my venus zone, legs, arms and armpits.
I pay 3,65€ for 20 waxing strips at the drugstore.
@@CordeliaWagner Wax is irritating skin even more (you can't get rid of this very short, thin hairs without damaging your skin), sugar wax\paste a little bit less, but it's also less effective (so it's no working on very short and thin hairs). Razor or electric shaver is still go to for people who's skin is prone to irritation and ingrown hairs.
From personal pov: I tried wax on small part of leg and endup with painfull rush for a month (my skin is generally fu*kedup). Sugar wax on face worked quite nice, but my hair regrow quite fast, so I still had to do this every week or two.
I remember seeing a professional trimmer user (aka a barber?) reviewing ManScape and it was hilarious how bad it was and every super special technologies they claim are just cheap versions of what trimmers had for decades.
Electric clippers like the ones used by barbers are definitely more powerful, especially the corded ones. What makes these trimmers like Manscaped or Meridian special is that the moving blade is ceramic and that they have a larger gap between the blades. This makes them much safer to use them directly on the skin without a guard. However, you still can use the corded Wahl "Peanut" clippers with the shortest guard (1-2 mm) for body grooming. I think this is the best value for money you can get.
@@DellaStreet123 my 36 dollar hair trimmer set came with a trimmer with ceramic blades, a poncho, a comb, 5 different attachments for the trimmer, a box.
i used it for 7 years now. once it got weak, then i had to open some screws and clean the mechanics, put it together, and it works again. i never had an issue with it cutting me, and i stopped beeing cautiously with it like 6 years ago.
and stop wasting your time, health and money with body grooming...
not a single woman complained to me about body hair, when in bed, and i have hair from my feet to my head. if you come perfectly groomed and perfumed/oiled, youll never experience womans lying on you shoulder, smelling your armpits like a junky. :D
@@DellaStreet123
Safer?!
It almost ate my sack. I’ve never bled so much from just skin. Their product is a poor imitation of a . All it does is catch skin. Unless of course you are just trimming hair.
If you are trying to get a clean shave or a close shave, this ain’t it. If you’re trying bleed all over your bath mat, this is the product for you.
@@certaindeath7776 Have you ever asked specifically about it? Honesty is key. Don't use negative leaning opening question like. "You don't think...", etc. Most women keep their opinions to themselves very closely on sensitive subjects and you have to tease it out.
@@NightFlight1973 there is no need to ask insecure questions, while they crawl their fingers through your breast and shoulder hair^^
I feel like something as simple as shaving shouldn't even be this complicated in the first place, and the "problems" that Manscaped supposedly solves isn't even that big of a deal if you're not lazy or something idk
One thing I’d be interested in knowing that the video doesn’t address is from a pure cleanliness, sanitation and comfort perspective is there any value with shaving the area around the penis.
@@U1TR4F0RCE No just cosmetic. The asshole? Maybe (just use a bidet) but not the balls and dick
Big agree. ✊🏻
None whatsoever. If you prefer looking like a boy instead of a man, I guess manscaping is a thing, but there isn’t any good reason for it.
Cushion for the pushing.
I was literally interrupted by a manscaped ad while watching this. Exactly in the part about messed up targeted ads. Could NOT have been more perfect.
this happens more often than not, proving that RUclips's targeted advertising system is totally broken. for example, you could not pick a worse audience for a leftist YT viewer than a De Santis, Trump, or Daily Wire ad, and yet that's all most people ever see. I'm sure advertisers love their money going directly to the people least likely to click through!
TLDR: This works because people like to feel special. They aren't buying a better product, they're buying a product that makes them feel special. :P
Their ads suck tho I dont' know how people can put up with it.
That's just how marketing worked for decades
And women especially care about their looks and are willing to pay a lot more for beauty care than men do. I had a boomer teacher who told me that "If a man is one degree prettier than the devil, that is good enough to find a wife." and he wasn't a woman hating incel either. He was married and had 4 children.
@@istvankovacs4154 And that is probably the cause of the pink tax
i feel like even that shouldn't work. While i don't buy into the concept necesarily if i wanted to "Feel special and manly" what's more manly than shaving with a 150 year old single hunk of sharpened steel? i have a straight razor i use that i found for a few bucks and cleaned it up and it not only shaves better than anything else ever, costs a LOT less longterm, i feel like a special badass when i use it FR. It's older than the constitution of the united states.
The biggest problem with manscape is how they trick you into buying a SUBSCRIPTION to their products without telling you. I forget how they did it to me (I bought the nose trimmer from a RUclipsr's affiliate link because it was ridiculously cheap). Basically if you don't uncheck a box when you add a product to the cart and check out, you will enter a subscription where they were literally replacing a big chunk of the trimmer very often. It was wasteful and expensive and you have to jump through hoops to unsubscribe. It was ridiculous. That is something I thought this video was going to address.
it's not really a "trick", and I never fell for it, despite having ordered 3 separate products from them over 5 years. You just need to have your eyeballs opened, and uncheck the box, or cancel the subscription after you buy. It's actually VERY easy to cancel, not even remotely difficult. My mom would have been able to do it, and she struggles to figure out what batteries a normal USB mouse uses.
This is a "skill issue", not a "they're a dishonest, scummy, scammy company and they need to get sued" issue.
I would tell you to "read the fine print" but you found a tickbox so you have even fewer excuses to accuse them of trickery. I don't know how old you are, but this tactic in this form has existed since the early 2000s. Neither old nor young people have an excuse for falling for it.
As for "jumping through hoops", just talk to your bank. They'll guide you through the minimum steps to give the offending biller a chance stop charging you before allowing you a chargeback. Your bank will literally just take your money away from Manscaped and punish them for it.
@@bobthebuilder609No, it is dishonest. Your consent shouldn't be assumed with you needing to opt out, it should be something you manually opt into by checking the checkbox instead of unchecking it.
They never sent me a notification about razor replacements that were about to ship. I had forgotten to cancel it and got a notification about it being shipped. Luckily, their customer service worked with me to get it cancelled and they gave a full refund.
they DO tell you. You have to use your eyeballs. If you're making that mistake in the last decade, that's totally on you
I remember looking into manscaped and seeing that their trimmer was something like 100 canadian dollars, so I just went to walmart and got a trimmer that works just as well for 20 bucks lol
exactly, people are so dumb
I had a similar experience. I usually just use safety scissors but I wanted something better after I once nicked myself. Looked at Manscaped and seeing it was like 90 bucks while a regular body trimmer that was 35 was rated better and had less customer complaints for using it in sensitive areas, less nicking, and so just got the cheaper option. Has worked great. Sucks that people charge more for a product that works the same or worse and get away with it.
Yeah, i took the time and looked at some comparison reviews and mostly the sentiment is that you can get a way better product for much cheaper.
I use BALL WASH before my 12 hour shift at the BALL CRUSHING FACTORY.
So hard to work there only to come back home and have the missus tell you she wants to crush them too.
@@protocetid That's why I'm eternally grateful to my son.
Cuz he crushed the shit out of HER balls coming out of her!
@@protocetidGot me dying!
@@Waffles4903 thanks
@@protocetid ...and yet, she's always a little teste whenever I wanna crush HERS, too!
You did not market it as such, but your own sponsored razor is incredibly visually attractive from a male perspective. It looks strong, minimalistic and almost handcrafted out of brass. It really speaks to the desire and admiration a typical man has for quality tools.
Mens stuff have form follow function, womens stuff have function follow form.
Seriously, the blouse example? Maybe go ask about how they are dry cleaned. There is a specific machine (a shirt buck) that is used on the vast majority of men's shirts whereas blouses tend to be more fragile and have a wild variety rendering them incompatible with a machine.
Maybe choose an example you actually understand?
The vast majority of the time the "pink tax" is exactly this - people will compare products and say "see the women's is more expensive!" but they're not the same product.
What more do u expect from a hipster looking guy.
Women’s razors are also more expensive to produce. The moisturizer pads are larger, more plentiful, with a higher quality moisturizer inside them. Their pink and yellow dyes are also more expensive and make plastic more brittle than black and green dyes, increasing R&D costs. Since women use razors on body hair, which is finer, blades on women’s razors tend to be thinner, which makes manufacture parameters stricter, therefore more expensive. Male athletes who need to shave off body hair, such as swimmers and cyclists, tend to buy women’s razors and electric trimmers for the blade profile and flexibility.
Not that I am totally immune to advertising or marketing or anything but it does constantly amaze me how easily people are influenced to buy into things they dont need!
I love the fact, that at the end a man with a beard is trying to sell a razor! I love your work, another great video. Thanks!
Looking at all the men with horrible facial skin:
Trust me, they NEED moisturizer!
@@CordeliaWagner That's mostly bad diet and sun exposure.
@@CordeliaWagnerthey don’t need to impress you
@@jokerpilled2535brother, it helps them too, no one likes to feel aged
@@jokerpilled2535 ah yes, people only groom themselves to impress other people. infallible logic from the joker pepe pfp
Proud to be a part of the 10% of female viewership. I've watched every video...on both channels 💪🏽
I was surprised to hear that stat. Doesn't seem to be man-centric topics. Odd. Add me to that 10% as well. :)
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Heck yeah ❤🙏🏻
@@kellymae2421 same, though admittedly, I've gotten manscaped ads long before this video. maybe the algorithm thinks i'm male so i'd have to check if I truly count in the 10%
me too!
As a gay guy, I do want to point out that I have been getting manscaped ads with drag queens in them for years. The ads you get might feel straight, but manscaped as a company definitely knows how to target and is actively targeting the gays. And we are basically the cornerstone of the male groom and especially the manscaping market.
I've also seen the pit crew on drag race coming out in manscape boxers all season 15
Came here to say all this too
Basically the whole video is wrong. They should correct it.
Aside from back hair, I really wish guys wouldn't fuck around with their body hair. There is NOTHING sexy about a guy with shaved legs, or arms, and a prickly chest is absolutely yuk. Stop doing it, FFS!!
@@joko23662this channel is going down the toilet. This and the sunscreen video are just full of lies and half truths.
An ad for Manscaped played immediately after this and I couldn't help but laugh... and weep a little
One played right in the middle of the video for me 😂
As someone who has to use wet wipes due to certain medical issues, I have to push back a little on the "don't use" tip. The thing is, I'm very aware that they are not "flushable", so I wrap and put them in the trash. Yeah, I know this is "gross", but it's responsible. I know that the plumbing folks have been trying to push back against companies putting "flushable" on these products. We need more public education on this front.
Great show. When I did my shaver research, it turns out manscape had tons of unhappy customers. Everyone recommend the Philips Multi-groomer, which is what I got and it's amazing.
Or, be a real man and don’t manscape.
I was trying to find one that was rechargeable and could be used while plugged in. My last Phillips had such a crappy battery that some mornings I just wanted to trim up, not wait 2 hours for a 20 min charge.
@@nslouka90 it sounds like you use it a lot and maybe that is why you had your experience. I'm not sure. It is certainly a valid concern. I use mine 2-3 month and the battery life is very good after 1 year.
Mine had the part where the charger go in corode in like two years and it no longer works.
This has always been a problem with products marketed towards a specific target audience. Like every "gaming" product.
gamer toilet
@@UnknownGamer40464 Mobile gamers deserve their own chairs, you know
Something also worth thinking about is that Manscaped has mostly been a direct to consumer company - they've cut out the middle man of high-street shops to ship the products straight from the OEM in China and get a lot more profit in doing so
That’s a good point! We normally talk about DTC businesses and I guess we got sort of used to saying it but it’s a big part of their success for sure 👍🏼
10:44 I'm buying for tech that specifically tells me it won't hurt my balls. I don't want body hair trimmer, i want private-protected trimmers. It's not the same thing AT ALL
I have a simple rule. If something sponsors a RUclips video, it's probably either not a very good product or just a scam.
I 100% agree that buying things just because they’re “for dudes” is dumb. I will say though a ball trimmer is a lovely addition to my medicine cabinet. I’ve always used electric trimmers and I got so so tired of constantly nicking myself. The difference is I went and found an alternative that cost me like $15 which does the exact same thing as the lawn mower. For me at least, if a product says it’s for women but does what I need it to do, why does it matter? Guys being so insecure that they can only buy things that are made for men specifically is so ridiculous to me.
I didn't know ball trimmers were a thing until they started being advertised. So it's not even insecurity most if the time, it's that by branding themselves as For Men products and advertising themselves they get to be seen before the neutral looking products do. And that way they become the "default" even though others may have come first.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I got the Lawnmower 4.0 on a promotional discount last year through one of the sponsor ads, and nicked myself the very first time, lol.
We South Asian males are a harrier than average race; we also tend to struggle in the online dating scene thanks to American media desexualizing us. Manscaped seemed to pick up on this shit and came after me like I wish a hot girl on Bumble would, lol.
Fortunately I've had the dumb luck of finding my special lady since then, and she never makes a big deal about my forest down under.
Having a ball shaver doesn't mean that you're insecure, f_king emotional ahh men with femsh!t choice 0f words
@@nahor88 Contrary to what advertising executives want you to believe, there's plenty of women who don't mind male body hair at all. That's what a man naturally comes with.
@@DellaStreet123 I get really long body hair, so I use a trimmer with a guard on it for my pits and stuff because it's just kinda uncomfortable.
Just wanted to add that manscaped has sponsored drag queens on RUclips and a RPDR internet series. That’s how I first heard of them, and all of the “manly” grooming products.
Good to know. Didn't like the implied 'oh they're so 'phobic' implications
Thanks for sharing this! We didn't see these sponsorships (to be fair it's kind of hard to search for this kind of thing) and the vast majority of their marketing is pretty much the opposite.
That was my first thought too! Been hearing about Manscape through queer content for a while.
I have nothing against trans folk. Nothing wrong with that. But I don’t know why straight men want to take on ways of being effeminate. I started dating a woman awhile back. She asked me why I manscaped. She said, “I like my man to look like a man.” So I stopped the foolish behavior.
Came down here to reiterate the same thing! Never would have known about the product if it weren't for queer creators. I didn't even know they marketed so hard to the masculine aspect of manhood until this video
I've always been so annoyed with "for men" products. Sometimes they're just worse to use for the sake of being "manly." For example, I once opted for the Dove Men+ Care equivalent of their Beauty Bars because they happened to be cheaper. The only differences were some perfume in them (which I didn't like) and the fact that, despite being the same size as their Beauty Bars, they were made a lot more chunky and uncomfortable to hold. Because that's MANLY. I think the most perplexing "for men" product I've seen has been Head & Shoulder's for Men. WHAT MAN IS SO INSECURE THAT THEY FEEL EMASCULATED BUYING HEAD & SHOULDERS?!?
I will say I do prefer using Dove Men deodorant, soap, and conditioner just because regular Dove dries my skin out A LOT, to the point where my skin is cracking all over. Some things are formulated for men's body and skin, but that's very rare nowadays. A lot of it is bullcrap unfortunately.
Dundruff are target at men , at least in my country, both H&S and Linic
@@ShirmaAkayaku Just to be clear, the Dove Beauty Bars were drying your skin out? They're literally designed to not do that, so that's really weird, but everyone's skin is different so yours must just respond differently than mine. Anyways, I am male and I do use them because on my skin they don't dry it out like regular soap does. Technically Beauty Bars aren't even soap. I definitely feel you on cracked skin, that's never fun. Mine does the same, especially on my hands, during the winter or often when the AC is running. ):
EDIT: My selective reading missed the deodorant and conditioner part xD I definitely don't have experience with either their regular or men's lines for that, so I won't comment there.
@@weird-guy Here in the US where I am, I don't think H&S's advertising is specifically targeted at men, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of their customers are men. It's basically the default shampoo here. Which is what makes it so absurd that they made a men's specific version separate from the regular version.
@@AgentOrange96i still remember all the old head and shoulders ads featuring NFL players during sports games, as well as ads showing guys having a bad date bc a girl notices dandruff on his shoulder.
As a woman on the internet who happens to run in circles that are mainly dude focused (gaming content mostly), I honestly couldn't believe it when I heard none of the female writers had seen a manscaped ad before. I practically can't get away from them!
I will hear no hate for the dawn soap in the shower. If you look at the ingredients of dove "body wash" you'll see it doesn't actually consist of the same ingredients that soap does. Mostly it has ingredients that leave a film that makes your body feel smooth, but does not necessarily clean you. Add the extra ingredients for fragrance and they are essentially lying to you about your cleanliness. Studies have shown with certain body washes you actually come out of the shower with more bacteria on your body than you went in with. Dawn dish soap (the standard blue liquid one at least) has very standard soap ingredients and actually cleans what it is scrubbed onto. Yes it removes more oils, but if you are moisturizing (which you should be doing anyways) it shouldn't really be a problem. If you are finding your skin more dry than you'd like it's as easy as diluting the soap a bit with some water. I think both the men and women "soap" market is a huge scam designed to make women think if they don't smell like coconuts and feel greased up, they are ugly and for men if they don't smell like pine tar and glisten in the sun, no one will love them. To assume that just regular soap is, for whatever reason, bad or embarrassing is just feeding the problem.
I love your comment
Your whole comment got wrecked when you said you have to then lotion yourself...
@@AmericanBusinessman422 I said you should moisturize your skin because it's good for your skin. You'll notice I mentioned that you should probably being moisturizing regardless of what soap you are using to clean yourself with. I don't quite understand how that undermines what else I said in my comment.
The problem is that not all bacteria are evil. That's another marketing scheme from the "cleanliness industry" as I like to call it. And from that point of view, dishwashing soap is actually not as good as normal bodywash because it is usually way more aggressive and disrupts the natural bacteria on the skin which are supposed to be there and required to keep it healthy.
So you want me to wash with dish soap, which dries my skin, and then moisturize (which I absolutely don't need to do otherwise) to make up for it.
OR I could not be an idiot, wash with regular body soap (simple and cheap stuff like Ivory works fine), not have dried out skin, not have to waste extra time and money moisturizing to undo the damage dish soap did to my skin.
Seriously, the entire "you should moisturize anyway" thing is entirely wrong. If you don't use soap that dries out your skin, you don't have to moisturize it to stop it from being dry. It won't dry out and you don't need to moisturize, you will be fine. You've been scammed into using the wrong soap and been scammed again into using moisturizer to fix the damage you did to yourself with the wrong soap. Use the right soap without moisturizer and once your skin adjusts and corrects itself to this, you will be fine.
Thank you! As a man, who currently doesn’t even really shave or trim any of his body hair and has had no issues with it, these ads always made me crazy! Lmao
Same, and I don't have a problem with men and women who also choose to stay fuzzy. Each of us is just a fat brained, two legged monke, after all.
Few months late, but I’m a straight 27 year old guy who has shaved since 13. Balls and all pubic hair first, then the under arm 🤮 at 15, and of course the patchy as all get out “beard” I’m still cursed with. Joked about that one with my dad yesterday.
All that said, I used whatever I could get my hands on. My two favorites are the one with aloe in the handle, and the double sided straight razor blade in a nice metal handle. You of course only replace the blades on that one.
Extremely recently, I’ve purchased beard soap.
I still nick myself near my lip, and when I shave too deep.
I do it for me, the moment I see hair growing.
12/12 women didn’t care, and I think 11/12 were clean shaven too.
I’m super grossed out by most men, but hey, live your best life.
Why though? Like, until recently I also never really shaved or trimmed anything, but I just didn't really mind the ads. Cause, like, I had already made up my mind that I was just not gonna bother with doing any of that, so I simply ignored those types of ads like I do with any others. Now recently I did start shaving but that was just because I started getting into the whole femboy-thing and, like, you know, I can't be a cute little femboy when I've got so much body hair that I might as well go shirtless during winter and a beard so long that I could literally wear it as a scarf XD
I have been shaving my head with a trimmer for over 2 decades now. I tried shaving my balls a few times when i was younger but now i do it more regularly with the same trimmer that i already have. FYI the trimmer i have i bought on sale for around $20 and its probably 10 years old at this point.
"Droping the soap is just a part of the fun"💀
For equipment I bought a commercial grade Andis clipper with a #50 ceramic blade thirty years ago that works fine today. Blades last at least six years used on people and the quality crushes
consumer clippers. I use it to shave my head too so it gets many operating hours. Commercial grade clippers are definitely worth buying because they save much more over time than they cost and ceramic blades save even more thanks to low replacement rates. Blade sharpening services exist (or if you own a surface or tool and cutter grinder you can do it yourself but I don't bother).
Thank you for this video. I love your channel and this video in particular. A was one of those 15 in 1 body wash guys until I started looking at the ingredients. I now use hand made Amish soap from a local farmer’s market and that is my entire “skin care routine”
When women complained about the «pink-tax» we meant «please stop charging more for the same product just because a woman uses it» not «make men’s products more expensive too» 😅
I guess now we are ALL (men&women) being shamed into taking care of ourselves 🤷♀️ Women: If you don’t use a nice deodorant,shave your armpits and legs you will never be attractive or feminin.
Men: If you don’t use a nice (manly smelling) deodorant, bodywash and shave your downstairs you will never get a lady or be manly.
Yay...equality 😑😑😑
Taking care of ourselves, in terms of makeup not men telling women to put on makeup, we hate it, in general its women expecting it, waste of money.
The pink tax isn’t a real thing in terms of “the patriarchy”. It’s just because women’s products usually have more ingredients or they’re picking a fancier color. Same as how a red car is gonna sell for a lot more than a tan car.
@@acog_quarks8753 Absolutely. Pink plastic is more expensive than blue plastic, for instance, due to a more expensive pigment and that the plastic has to be heated to a higher temperature to color it pink
I've stuck with the PhilNo BoGro for 14yrs. No need to switch up because you can't fix what's not broken.
A trimmer is a trimmer.
All that matters is finding one that works for you.
I've been using a Remington for 20 years.
very reliable.
Women’s clothes are made of more delicate fabrics and are usually more intricate, cleaning them requires more care.
The difference between men’s and women’s razors are usually in the moisturizer pads, in which women’s typically contain more vitamins and minerals for skin care while men’s razor pads are more there for lubricant and spacing.
Same thing with women’s soaps and shampoos. Men’s are mostly for just for cleaning and women’s have twice as many ingredients or more to provide additional care.
For each of these besides dry cleaning, there are comparable bare-bones products that are comparable in price for both genders. Women either dell for the marketing OR just have higher standards for comfort and quality then men do and those luxury features are worth more to them than the money they’d save just using men’s razors and shampoo. Same thing with the clothing, simpler clothes would incur lower dry cleaning costs, but women’s average bar for fashion is high than average men’s.
Aside from very specific items (menstrual care products), the pink tax is one of the few taxes you can by and large opt out of.
The answer is not telling men not to buy in and properly groom themselves though. The answer is to starve those luxury products buy roughing it for a little bit until the price falls.
Citation needed on the actual differences between the products
@@ungabungus01you could leave your basement once in awhile and go see the products for yourself instead of believing ideologues whose job should have stopped existing 40 years ago at the latest and would have if people like you didn't believe them without question.
@@RunicSigils lmao 3 strawmans in 1 post
@@RunicSigils Your reluctance to accept that the OP very likely made up their post either from thin air or based on some old wives tale and instead attack the one questioning you is a problem. Don't be so emotional and try to take an objective approach to things.
How is the OP controversial? You can look at the labels yourself next time you go for groceries. The underlying reason is probably a combination of societal norms, marketing, and capitalism. But the plain fact is clear: products marketed to women contain more and/or more complex ingredients. The more comparable products get, the more comparable the price gets.
No problem here.
The products are excellent & it’s encouraging men to invest in personal care.
Finally a channel about not crappy paid-fake products, but discussing real problems, keep goin'! We need more of this!
I sorta fell for it about four years ago, but I actually did need a trimmer anyway (not for down under, particularly). I’d been through half a dozen crap trimmers in a couple years that were cheap, but barely held a charge, rapidly lost charge capacity, got dull easily, requiring an expensive blade change, and the list goes on. Right about that time Manscaped was marketing hard around UFC events, right when I was thinking I needed something better. While it seems almost certain I could have found something equivalent for cheaper, I must say it’s a quality beard trimmer. It holds a charge for weeks, hasn’t lost charge capacity, I get 6-9 months between blade changes, and has done this for years now.
I use a Henson safety razor to shave, but, due to laziness I inevitably end up with a beard that has to be trimmed down before the razor shave can happen, so that’s where the “Hedge Trimmer” (I never call it that) comes in. While admittedly, the gimmicky nature of it makes me feel a little bit like a mark, I can’t say I particularly regret the purchase.
Don't feel bad about it, I like this channel, but I get a superiority complex vibe in some ways. If you find joy from it, why should you feel guilty about it? It's ironic, Future Proof is accusing Manscape for making men feel inferior so in turn they make the men who buy their products feel inferior. I was hoping to find a REAL problem from this video about this product and all I got from it is the same spiel we've heard before: "Marketing bad because it makes me feel bad". Groundbreaking 😂
@@Un0rthodox475 😂
This video is a complete joke... not to mention the retarded clickbait.
Personally I just jump in the washing machine, with dishes too. me clean, dishes clean, clothes clean, perfect. Though I do set it to eco, I'm not a monster
I prefer the hot tub, but same concept 💪
FP: don't use wet wipes
Me: why?
FP: because flushing them is bad
Me: not flushing them and not using them are two different things...
Yeah but this is specifically for wet-wiping one's bumhole. You'd really want to flush those to get rid of them. It's cleaner to give one's browneye a little wash, but you can just put a bit of soap and water on normal toilet paper if you want to. Then again with just water to rinse. Then one to dry. The pre-bought wet wipes are some polymer stuff that will "flush" as far as going down a toilet, but end up causing huge problems for sewage infrastructure. It doesn't dissolve like paper does.
To be honest, the product is good and one blade can last you a long time!
And it is easy to use :)
And yes, you can buy any trimmer, but if it doesn't work it would be hard for you to get your money back
Women's blouses cost more to dry clean because their shape and size is much more varied, requiring hand washing vs the men's shirts, which went through a machine. The dry cleaning shop from that infamous "pink tax" study explained it when journalists actually bothered to interview them about it.
Women's razors are not "exactly the same" as men's. They Have larger surface area and different metallurgy for the blades because they're adapted for use on different parts of the body and softer skin.
A safety razor of any kind would save you so much money and can do all kinds of shaving needs!
These marketing gimmicks are targeting those who do not know.
Thanks for sharing these videos to prevent companies from preying on the mass's weaknesses/ inferiority complex.
I have been using one for years, but not going to lie, I wouldn't be shaving my balls with it 😅 Not to say I haven't, but it is a bit of a high risk game especially if you have a fresh blade 😂
@@skartimus I think the key with nut shaving with a manual razor is just to do a little bit at a time. Stretch a bit of skin over a finger so it doesn't move about. Also most nutbags tend not to have a large number of hairs.
@@greenaum If you have to chose between walking a tightrope between cutting on flab of nutsack or another or using a electric grooming tool, just use the electric grooming tool.
@@skartimus why the hell would you shave your balls in the first place?
@@UnknownGamer40464 Definitely not advocating that, just saying for the 'Manscaped' selling point, a safety razor does have a gap in its game there 😂 I've done it and regretted it, I stick to trimming now.
I am a female who bought a Manscaped Lawn Mower to use on my pubic hair. After watching this video, I realized it was just the first nice body shaver like this this that I had seen advertised. I had one from target before but it was not built to last and did not have replaceable parts. I have had mine for a few years and it has worked great for me! But now I’m seeing female targeted ads for similar shavers and wishing I had gotten one of those!
To the both of you double wow
The use of Chat GPT in this video felt really out of place. There didn’t seem to be any point to it, and it didn't really serve a purpose. Citing Chat GPT in what is intended to be an informative video makes the points you are trying to make seem less credible, at least to me personally.
It's not a search engine, it just makes things up and nothing it says should be trusted. You did go on to say that you did some amount of research to verify its claims, but I still think it isn't a good look and you would have been better off omitting it entirely.
Yeah for sure, just felt it was in there so Levi could make the 'Chad' joke
Pretty sure he was using it because it’s a consolidation of the information you would find if you spent researching everything on your own!
I like to think he did it as sarcasm or because everyone else uses it for the videos!
Or the possibility because everybody uses it and thinks that GPT model is like an all knowing genius, the credibility of that section of the video may be like “ oh, it was chat, GPT that said that, makes sense”!
3:45 The difference between men and women's razors isn't just the color. Also the reason women's blouses cost more to dry clean than men's shirts is because women's blouses tend to be made of more delicate materials.
The ad in the end of a different brand of razors was like taking a dump on your credibility after that particular video
Honestly at this point I never trust endorsements or affiliates after all the bad ones and ones where they are in conflict with another company selling a similar product. Especially the homelander one 😂
As a gay man, I feel very conflicted about this new marketing strategy. On one hand the marketing is really cringy and exploitative. But on the other hand, it's teaching straight men How to be more hygienic.
Oh please (serious eye roll) There’s NOTHING hygienic about manscaping. That is a total myth used to justify something done for transitory fashion reasons only. I’m a 66-year-old guy with a hairy body. My hygiene has never suffered because of it.
There's nothing hygienic about excessive grooming. The guy who never washed his ass isn't going to magically use this, and the average guy that didn't trim used a basic soap. Having specialized items seems pretentious, not hygienic
@@leenva Pretentious is a good way to put it.
Yeah straight man are so non hygienic that STD is common in our community.
Oh wait nvm.
I was mean on purpose there's no difference in hygienic between straight or homosexual, it's just stereotype.
Shaving balls isn't for hygiene but for look. Self-care is not related o hygiene.
Hygiene is taking a shower and shampoo, bushing your teeth, cleaning your ears (not to often its self cleaning).
Shaving balls, shaving around the dick is for look.
I've seen/smell/taste vagina/dick dirty but still shave.
@@Nicksonian to clarify. I was not trying to make any statements on manscape as a product and manscaping as a routine. I was talking generally about how it markets itself. And if you think I was trying to say that manscaping was important to hygiene, that was not the intention. Wow! This video does cover manscape as a product. It covers more than just that it covers body wash, wiping your butt, having a skin care routine.
I'm really thankful women spend thousands of years trying to get different skincare and grooming techniques to work for them so most men could just now grab 1-3 products and become dewy and sharp-lined
On wet wipes, the UK has a certification mark for wet wipes which actually require them to pass a water industry test which is called "fine to flush" and the products that use it are much more like paper and pulls apart easily and even disolves sitting in water
I can't recall from where, but I'm sure that mark is only for single wipes being flushed at a time. If you put multiple "fine to flush" in the loo and flush then apparently it's just as bad as regular ones.
I just toss them in a mini-sized trash bin with a scented plastic bag.
We did a huge project with the local waste water treatment company, let me tell you, that fine to flush certification means nothing, under IDEAL laboratory testing with nothing else, sure they disintegrate but in real life, when you have tons of them clumped together along with all the other shit that goes to the waste treatment plant and our woefully overburdened sewage systems, they do not disintegrate, and they definitely do not dissolve.
That certification basically leaves 0 room for error
and they are definitely not OK to use if you have a septic tank (my family found this out the hard way)
The Fine to Flush ‘wet wipe’ certification will come to an end in March 2024.
The Government, in their Plan for Water, also committed to supporting Water UK’s behaviour change campaign ‘Bin the Wipe’ and to consulting on a ban on wet wipes containing plastic.
The water industry will continue to work with Government and other stakeholders to encourage customers to dispose of wet wipes appropriately through the Bin The Wipe campaign.
If "pink tax" is just about the color of the product, why are women not using products designated for men ????
Many do.
Just so people are aware "flushable" wipes doesn't mean you should flush them down the toilet. In a legal setting it just means you CAN flush them down a toilet, not that you should. The laws haven't caught up yet since I don't think a single case came up to change the meaning of flushable that you can flush them without blocking a toilet. Instead it just means that you literally can flush them, even if it would be unwise to.
I have one of the silicone soap sleeve things. While it does help with grip, I really like it because it makes the soap last a lot longer. It doesn't really exfoliate, more so spread the soap. The one I use is the Sud Stud. If you use bar soap, I'd actually recommend it.
Honestly, my Philips Oneblade has been great for trimming up just about everything.
It's half the price as the Lawnmower and the blades last forever.
Is it waterproof?
@@graydonrobson7471 yes. I haven't have any issues with it in the shower.
@@prerecordedresponse9884how do you shave in the shower? do you apply shaving gel and when you're done you just wash it all away or do you use just the water as lubricant?
I’m probably more high maintenance than most guys. It’s partially due to having acne most my life and partially from being a bit ocd. However no one likes to be around someone who stinks or is kinda nasty. I take a lot of pride in having clean clothes each day, smelling good, and having good breath.
I’ve definitely used manscaped and tried a lot of “men’s brands”, most are just okay and you can find less expensive alternatives.
Edit: dude wipes smell better than baby wipes lol
Men tend to buy things for their utility, and not solely because something is marketed well. In the case of the Manscaped trimmer, i bought the Lawn Mower 5.0 trimmer over the Philips trimmer, even though it was double the price simply because it had USB-C for charging rather than the proprietary charger that all the other trimmers use. Because their company is less than a decade old, they're able to provide products with more utility and iterate quickly; it's not all marketing.
You compared the individually wrapped Dude Wipes to the bulk pack Cottonelle wipes which is why the cost was so different. The individually wrapped ones are designed to carry a few around with you but they are way more expensive than the regular packs. Dude Wipes are still more expensive but no where near to this degree. Coming from someone who has tried pretty much every brand the Dude Wipes really are the best.
I bought a safety razor at an antique shop years ago and love it to pieces.
9 years ago I spent bought two $15 corded trimmers, one for my private parts, and one for my public parts. The only two downsides I can see when compared to these $90 personal trimmers are mine are not water proof, and I have to be near a power outlet. I’ll keep my $60 for that trade off….
Funny enough, many products like the Manscaped products are only water resistant and not water proof.
So your corded trimmers are as good if not better for the fact that trim speeds remain the same as you have no batteries going dead everyday😂 so way less pulling and jammed blades.
I brought a professional hair cutter that cost $90. It is vastly superior to these cheap, plastic toys. I don’t care if it has to be plugged in because I only use it in my head and goatee. Why would I use it anywhere else…
I have a hair trimmer I got on lidl for 30€ and they are battery power or if you want it can plug into the wall.
My skincare routine: sun, exercise and red fatty meat 👌🏻
I will say I used the Manscaped Lawn Mower and I love it. I was also nervous to shave down there with a regular razor, and it does do a good job at protecting you from cuts 99% of the time. I also have a Leaf Razor for my face, but wouldn’t want to shave my business with the same thing I use for my face, and I’d be very worried to cut myself (as I have done with my face lol).
2:55 Not sure if you're saying using Dish Soap to shower isn't a problem or not, but I just want to clarify that it indeed is.
Dish soap is designed to clean dishes and remove grease and grime, it is not intended for use on your skin when taking a bath. Dish soap can be harsh and may strip your skin of its natural oils, leading to dryness, irritation, and potential allergic reactions.
I will say though... The "Pink Tax" is a bit more complicated than you are saying here...
For instance, the dry cleaning thing. Men's shirts tend to be very standard and simple, so you can easily throw it on a inflating thing and boom done. Women's shirts though often require much more time and and effort as they are made of many materials, have things on them, and are generally far less uniform so they are dry cleaned differently.
Same with "men's haircuts vs women's haircuts."
Men's haircuts tend to be cheaper because they tend to be far simpler, where as women tend to have far more styled hair with more complex cuts.
So it is a far more complex issue than you are saying..
Heck even things like lotions are not like for like as men's products tend to lack any perfumes where as women's products are scented.
Even the razors aren't "literally the same thing but pink". I wound up getting a men's razor during COVID since the carts for my particular brand (Flamingo, the ladies' version of Harry's) is carried by fewer stores locally, so adding in crazy supply chain problems, I went with the men's option temporarily. The result was me constantly getting shaving cuts until supply chains normalized and I could get the Flamingo ones again. Also, if you look at the websites for Harry's and Flamingo, a new handle plus one cart runs $8 or $10, with the ladies' option actually being the cheaper option here. It's almost like product design is a lot more complicated than some middle class internet "activists" who suck at shopping and make all their money complaining about things would lead us to believe.
@@MissRora All hail the Y-tube video!
@@MissRoraYou really ought to try out a safety razor, they are super cheap so worst case you're out like $12. It's miles better than any other type of razor I ever tried, then again maybe my problem was always using men's razors.
That video was written by woman. Of course woman will play victim card without any research.
you see, the only reason why I bought my 4.0, even tough I already had a Phillips trimmer, and a really good one, is because I cutted myself like 4 times down there. I was aware of the product since 2.0 but didn’t justify the price for the trimmer, until this happened to my wife too, and I was like “Let’s get a skin safe trimmer for both of us” and it worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m happy with the product.
I have a Persian cat who gets fur-matts in his armpits sometimes , I find the lawnmower 4.0 works reasonably well for light amounts of cat shaving as well to help get the mattes out.
OMG! I just had an ad break for Manscape!
The irony...
I read somewhere years ago, that marketers couldn't get men to buy more underwear no matter what they did, so their solution's was to gussy up men's underwear & charge more for it.
I agree with everything you said, and I will add that the ethics become even more questionable when the ads are targeted at teens and pre-teens, whose bodies and brains are going through a lot of changes. I first learned about Manscaped as a brand years ago from a barely pubescent teenager who was led to believe he had to remove all body hair to be considered not gross. Manscaped knows that they make money off of making children hate their natural bodies. But they’re okay with it.
Also, for those out there still wondering, the suggestion that a reduction in hair (or complete lack of hair) makes someone more desirable is wrong. You groom for you. Or don’t. It’s your preference.
This video is an ad for Leafshave while using a better/ more recognizable brand name to make a video about it 😂
Well played
I will say this. I bought into the marketing and got one of their electric razors, largely because I hate my ultra hairy legs, and any time I tried to shave with normal razors, my (apparently) sensitive skin would be destroyed for weeks and it just wasn't worth it. But since my legs give me dysmorphia, hey, Manscaped. The reason I went with them, is because it was sold as "expensive but worth the price." And frankly... yeah, it's been worth it. I have a trusty electric razor, for any shaving needs I have. I can use it wet or dry, and it is simple and easy to clean, and the only part that needs replacing is the actual razor, which I never have replaced, and it's still working fine (I don't have a lot of hair, so results may very).
So, frankly, I paid a lot for quality and I got it. So I can't be too mad, even if their marketing is a bit silly. I frankly don't mind it. Because let's be frank, the memes about men not cleaning are there for a reason; most men are nasty AF, and if Manscaped's marketing is trying to pull to "Overton Window of Men's Grooming" slightly more to the "at least he wipes his butt" side of the spectrum, I can only kind of support that.
Oh man, hairy legs on a guy are sooooooo hot. Definitely not on a woman, though, lol. Yeah, double standards...sue me! Shaved, or trimmed, male body hair is a major turn-off for me. Just looks wrong. And feels horrible & prickly. I wish I could change your mind about your hairy legs! 😉
I’m glad I read this, it validates my purchase of this year’s Amazon Prime Day sale and upon glancing the title, I felt frustration and buyers remorse. It’s not like I can sell it used or give it away to someone as a gift! I suppose I may as well stick to it. At least it’s waterproof.
@@ezyglide0909 Yeah, definitely not worth buyer's remorse. Are there better razors out there? Maybe. Is this the best one on the planet? No. But it's a solid 7/10, and if that's all you were looking for, that's a passing grade in school, so it's a passing grade for me!
Have you tried a safety razor? They tend to be a lot gentler on skin.
As a woman who watches lots of gaming and tech stuff, I have seen way too many
manscaped commercials
ah so that's why I've heard of them before! I was finding it weird that none of the women in the writing team had seen their ads, I've seen them quite a lot - I guess I confused the gendered algorithm 😆
so that’s why i get these targeted ads…i was wondering what gave youtube the impression that i’d buy manscaped
As a female gamer, I know about these products because they often sponsor video games channels, thus I've seen them before.
I've known from the get-go that it was all marketing. Go into any appliance store and there are 100 different trimmers for men, all pretty much the same if the price is similar. Why would Manscaped be different? It's a trimmer, not a superconductor. And super good, high-quality trimmers exist. Barbers have had them for decades. They probably cost 20x what a regular one does and can run forever but if you're trimming your beard alone a few times a week most of the things you can get for like 50$ will do.
First off, taking care of your downstairs parts has less to do with appearances and all to do with comfort. It’s unfair to claim we suddenly care how we look.
Second, wet wipes are so much better and everyone should be using them. Don’t tell people to stop using them, tell people to stop FLUSHING them. Why would anyone ever think wiping with a dry paper would work better in any way than a slightly moisturized fabric? If it’s good enough to keep babies butts clean then it’s good enough to keep my butt clean.
Third, the “pink tax” has been largely blown out of proportion. The way it’s referred to these days is basically a myth. There are plenty of instances where one product is more expensive than another, but the market doesn’t rely on TWO products. There are even more products that COST LESS. But nobody ever talks about that because it’s inconvenient for their argument. The fact is we’re all getting screwed and it’s time to stop dividing the genders.
In regard to their marketing showing an exaggerated version of traditional masculinity:
We have a direct example of what would happen if they suddenly did a u-turn from that with the bud light fiasco.
They are pigeonholed into doing that exact strategy, as that is what serves their core audience
Like Herbal Essences?
Traditional masculinity…where men were, um, men. Instead of today where men are weak, inconsequential, effeminates.
They just havr to stick to the big customer base they already built.
@@kellymae2421 IDK I haven't heard anything about that...can you explain?
@@hatless_spider Back sometime in the 2000’s they came out with an ad campaign. Complete with orgasmic behaviour (ala You Got Mail). Not sure what woman they were marketing. I didn’t like it. Was an awkward commercial. Tasteless. As a woman I was their audience, I didn’t like the commercial. What type of dumbass thinks a woman will appreciate seeing another woman having an orgasm shampooing their hair? Anyway, I haven’t bought since.
I don’t know, maybe it wasn’t the best example, but it was relevant to me.
I've been critical of some of your older videos, but this time I completely agree. And in general, apart from the problematic gendered aspects of marketing nowadays, I think consumers should be extra suspicious of aggressive marketing of products that suddenly everybody seems to be recommending in social media like RUclips. Most of the time it is fundamentally disingenuous.
Best example I can think of was those MVMT "premium" watches that created a huge buzz a few years ago. They were cheap quartz mechanisms surrounded by pretty low grade materials like plain painted metal faces, swede straps and awful reflective acrylic bezels instead of glass. But the company approached many youtubers who had a large following of young men and had them "review" them. Amazingly, they were all saying the exact same things, claiming these watches were precisely what they were not: Minimalist (not because they were too cheaply made to feature anything intricate at any level), with nicer materials for their price (again, like suede and acrylic), well designed (cause nothing says class more than thick, oversized watches with a powder-coated plain metal face) and above all, cleverly and tastefully conceived in order to offer quality and style at a very affordable price (especially if you fail to realize that they should be priced 30 dollars instead of 90). For a while it seemed like everybody in their early 20's was bamboozled into thinking they were something special, just because everybody at RUclips was saying so. Oh, they were supposedly able to sell such a nice product so "cheaply" because of their innovative business model of selling only online, which they pretty soon proved was bullshit by opening physical stores and replacing their range with models that were closer to 300 dollars. To me, every time I see a product being suddenly hyped by lots of people at RUclips, it automatically raises suspicions that it's just a like others that already existed and its only point of distinction lies in aggressive and disingenuous online marketing.
I agree that many of the videos on this channel are poorly done. And the hipster-doofus presenter gets more annoying every time I see him.
@@Nicksonian I used to dislike some of his videos in the past because from my perspective, they seemed to be advocating for some lifestyle that claims some form of sustainability, but is not affordable to many people out there. I think this sustainability-as-personal-responsibility thing that does not focus on holding corporations accountable appeals mostly to people who might have become affluent under this economic system that destroys the environment, so now they can buy better and more expensive stuff and claim to be following a less harmful personal lifestyle as a bonus, so it must be other people's fault for not doing the same. I don't mind his more recent videos that present some brands and products, trying to separate facts from hype in a somehow objective and informative manner. They seem to be doing what the author is claiming, more or less.
Also, I've got nothing in particular against original hipsters, fight me 😛
@@PinkAsAPistol I completely agree. Have you seen the kitchen countertop composter that costs $500? A perfect example of what you say. Where I often disagree with this channel is that they are frequently poorly researched, seem to offer way more opinion than fact by criticizing by speculation. As a retired journalist, I find many of their presentations very weak. Kramer was the original hipster-doofus. He was great. The problem with the breed is that they live on a knife edge of either being hugely magnetic and original, or just annoying. This guy is falling towards the annoying side of the fence, partly because he almost always comes around to pushing an alternate product which feels like a hidden agenda…or a way to boost advertising income.
@@Nicksonian Oh I can imagine, even though I'm a place in the EU where we haven't got round to using composters. I equally love it when this kind of brands realize that most can't buy these things, so they invite you to go big with small stuff. Like the 25-dollar sustainable toothbrush, with the rationale being that surely you can pay 25 dollars for an item, cause even if you're poor, you're not that poor, are you? Even though if you paid 25 dollars instead of 3 and generally multiplied by 8 the price of each and every one of your essential items for the purposes of quality and sustainability, you'd have to be rich, and then the question would have to be by what fair and sustainable way you became one. Surely I'm living a non-sustainable life by using plastic toothbrushes that I then keep and reuse to clean stuff like devices, shoes etc that other people don't tend to take care of so they throw them away much sooner.
To the rest of your points, it's not my primary field of knowledge to be able to tell if there are inaccuracies to some of his videos, and it might take quite a bit of specific research to fact check some of them, but the ones I've seen seemed reasonably ok to me as far as I could tell. There's only so much you can do in an easily digestible part-informative part-entertaining video as well. And the vested interests of having to play the game of the influencer are ever-present for everybody who creates content for a living, so being completely objective while playing that game is a rarity obviously.
I've probably been one of the first antrhopotypes that would be labeled a hipster in the start of '10s. You know, musician, listening to underground bands, liking flannel and beards, but it didn't seem like a particular breed then. The crucial thing is that being broke all the time, you might also be looking for alternative ways to do some nice things for yourself, like search for vintage clothing to find something that floated your boat and that you could not buy otherwise, or restore an old steel road bicycle because new carbon bikes where upwards 2000 euros, or want to take up photography and buy an old film camera because a good DSLR was out of your budget. Suddenly that thing seemed to have a name, everybody aspired to be a hipster but dreaded being called as such and I wouldn't see why I should be offended, at least until it became a new consumerist trend pushed by corporations who wanted us to buy new cool stuff that would make us show our individuality by being all the same lol.
If I see lots of ads for a product, I would never buy that. Not necessarily because it's a bad product or a bad idea, but because I don't like ads, especially targeted ads that try to manipulate
Manscaped is telling you you must do something that you don’t need to do. Manscaping has nothing to do with hygiene. It’s about market share and the modern woke trend the makes men effeminate.
Same with me. I'm getting ads for hair removal products and devices by the dozen, and the more I get, the less I want to start shaving again. Every once in a while, I drop a comment. Sometimes it's quickly deleted, but frequently, I actually get an answer. A cocky answer that certainly will not persuade me to give those people my money. -- As a kid, I would read the Country Gentleman's gazette cover to cover each month, and the final pages were always dedicated to ads for studs. Small ones, larger ones, with and without a picture. Singular ads, recurring ads. I couldn't help but noticing the large ads for a particular stud. Look, Daddy, I said, Sailing Swan is in it again, large ad, with a picture. Must have cost them a plenty. My father's reaction: They must be desperate for customers.
I always wondered why anyone in their right mind would pay that much money for a cheap plastic trimmer when you can buy a good quality metal trimmer for half the price, I bought my stainless steel Phillips norelco trimmer like 3 years ago and it never disappoints.
Guy on youtube: Dropping soap is part of the fun 😁
Guy in prison: Dropping the soap is part of the fun 💀
I've been buying men's razors exclusively for years because they're better and cheaper. I really hope this doesn't mean their prices will increase. 🙄
The leafshave is super expensive for what it is. Atleast in Europe you can get very similar quality for literally a third of the price, while still being very robust, all metal safety razor shaver
How many blades do you need in a razor anyway? One used to be plenty for every man in the world up until the mid '80s when Gilette and Wilkinson took turns "inventing" revolutionary new razors with one more blade than the other. I'm happy enough with a twin-blade cheap supermarket thing. It's not a space station, it cuts little hairs.
The part he didn't tell you is that leaf shaver starts at 84 Dollars. They also appear to be based heavily on aesthetics which tells me they probably don't shave all that well.
Eh, I got one and I like it. I'm a woman and I use it on my legs but I got my bf to try it when I first bought it and he said it was a good shave just needed to adjust to the different weight/balance of it compared to his usual razors.
Leaf is expensive but worth it. They're not based on just aesthetics but build quality/materials
I have and still occasionally will use DAWN in the shower, it's GREAT at removing grease and dirt off skin without drying it out, and it's cheap compared to some of the specialty cleaners used by mechanics etc and works just as good.
Wow that ad at the end for the competing razor product was... Icky.
Undermines the whole video.
Manscaped works for me, I don’t like shaving (rather trim) and their trimmers are safe to use and last awhile. +1 for manscaped
It's more just that you can get the same thing for as fraction of the price elsewhere. Their markups are insane, especially when they're already saving money buying common designs strait from China and advertising for cheap through places like RUclips.
As a 50yr old woman, I was use to my boyfriends and then my husband using generic trimmers. They all had a set of blades and used them for whatever needed trimming based on hair length. I have the same trimmer set as hubby because the pink tax is real. Hubby bought us both the same trimmer set for Valentine’s Day 😂❤
" because the pink tax is real." it is not. Do some research.
@@lifebarier my man all you have to do is leave your mom's basement, visit a grocery/convenient store, and compare trimmers of similar performance. one from the lady's category, and another one that's neutral. ironic you ask people to "do research" when you can't even do that.
@@卛 Follow your own advice. Compare them. They are not same - different blades, different plastic (yes, pink pigment is more expensive than blue you dimwit). Hell, one company even had mini documentary on how they are different. Same with shampoo, same with antiperspirants (different formulations). But why am I explaining this to someone who just listens what propagandists say.
@@卛 Okey the pink tax is real, cause pink plastic costs more overall than most other plastics such as blue or black.
And even then it's not the same products, the ingredients and the amount of each, heck even when it comes to razors the shape and sometimes even the type of steel the razor is made up off is different cause men and women overall have different skin structure and men's razors are rougher overall.
So you are right there is a pink tax per se, but you are delusional to think that its' literally just a tax cause it's a female products that is "just the same".
Bet you go into a car dealer and see a Ferrari and a Volkswagen Golf and say they are just the same as well then I guess.
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Just to add another one, he mentioned clothing costing more at dry cleaner. Yeah they cost more cause women's clothing are less standard shaped, and there are a lot more curves and cuts at varied proportions with something like a blouse, as well as the material can be thinner and less robust, so there is a way higher need for doing manual work there that can't done with a dryer dummy or the something more automated cause it will not do the job good enough or can damage it.
There is a lot more to it all than fooling women to pay more for the same or nothing extra. That isn't to say that companies won't do that as well and at least try to do it, but they do that for every product. It just happens to be that men are seemingly caring more about the price for the direct value of use than women are to just get the better perceived value even if it costs more than they would like, and you see this in all of marketing.
@@TheAsgardRaven all of that just to say you don't know shit about economics.
what you fail to understand is this: nobody's saying the pink tax exists due to some anti-women agenda. it does exist but the reason is simply supply and demand.
women have more demand for certain items. they're priced higher. the demand doesnt diminish regardless of the price. so companies can afford to jank things up further.
that's all there is to it, and it's real. it exists. again, why the mountain of text when you can just go outside to see it in grocery stores?
My mom likes the more fruity, feminine type Dr. Squatch soaps. I prefer the wood and booze scented ones. And yes, she has the soap gripper. I can’t help but wonder how much soap that contraption wastes. 😅 It smells great and I can be glad I’m not absorbing the crap that companies like Dove put in their products. I always just felt . . . off after using it. And the smell? My nostril hairs were always on fire.
Are you really that gullible ?
About 3 years ago I bought a highly rated hair trimmer from Amazon. It is made of metal and has the weight and balance of a well made piece of equipment. I've never done any maintenance to it other than brush off hair debris and yet it works just as well today, as it did the first time I used it. It still looks brand new. I imagine one day when I'm gone (hopefully in 20+ years) one of my kids will find it and say "Oh this is dad's beard trimmer" and they will turn it on and it will still be running perfectly.
Spend a little more up front and buy a quality product.........you save money in the long run.
The problem with the video is it was written by a woman who has never used the product and has no familiarity with it. Delivered by a man whose never used said product. I guess I'll just ask an ai next time.
lol i literally used blue dawn in the shower yesterday. i was being a grease monkey and it worked better than the orange stuff. but really, i just use a local bar soap for everything. I'll also note, the trimmer is great. i don't use anything with alcohol or chemicals on my skin tho, 99% of the time.
Define "chemical"
@@Nos2113 keep in mind osmosis. you shouldn't willingly apply things to your skin that you wouldn't eat, as a general rule. i mean if you get motor oil on you, you wash it off. also, most products dry your skin and cause a hydration imbalance. you should really treat skin care products like you do your pantry.
Honestly whatever it takes for dudes to clean themselves
I've never understood women complaining about the pink tax. If men's and women's razors are the same, except for the colour, then just buy the men's razor
That's what many of us do. Unfortunately, we still have to buy period products. However, there's still a stigma surrounding women buying men's products, which of course, is the nature of the beast, which is gendered marketing.
Do period products count as a pink tax item as there is no equivalent for men?
I'm sorry but I stand by what I said. If anyone is buying anything that's more expensive than an identical item, purely because of "the stigma", that's on them, just don't buy it.
@@shanemjnperiod products ARE the pink tax. so are makeup products, etc. since without them, women look “unprofessional” and are far less likely to be deemed professional and employable since they aren’t “presentable” in todays societal standards. i understand what you are trying to get at, but stigma is a surprisingly strong force, i mean, just look at how many men have mental health problems since it’s so stigmatized for men to be tough and not get therapy
Period products aren't pink tax.
You don't need a disposable razor, you can buy a handle or whatever it is called and use safety razorblades.
Women have periods, but there are no cheaper options for men.
Thare is no evil marketing strategy behind period products.
Make Up is maybe the norm in professional high paid settings but most women I see in real life don't wear Make Up.
Does your job require wearing Make Up?
Have you tried not wearing Make Up and talk to your Boss?
Or is it customer expectations?
Same applies to “kid” products.
Some lady in the store told me: “it is expensive, but it is your kid, you won’t be saving on kid, yes?” 🤯🤯🤯
It’s good that I was buying to my friends kid, and 1 time purchase is not that bad for my wallet 😂
Ive had a corded Wahl trimmer for abt 20 years, hasnt failed any of my trimming needs nor my dogs ever
Fun Fact: I actually showered with dish soap a few times back when I was still in school. I'd always commute 3 miles back to my folks place, since living on campus was like 11k. Yet my friends stayed on campus and went to the gym a lot, so since it was convenient, harmless, and pretty easy I threw in a bottle of dish soap. (Wasn't gonna spend enormous amounts of money on body wash, just for a quick one a day or week gym shower.)
After trail and error, I found you can use one of the Gillette 5 blade razors on your junk and you’ll be fine. Just go in the right direction and don’t go nuts (no pun intended)
Follow up: You can use it in the shower and just be careful and not rough. Also make sure it’s clean. I’ve even bought barber spray for that reason to make sure things are sanitized. And if you want to you can use some lotion/after shave or something afterward. Don’t be lazy about it if you care about that part of your body
BUM DUM TSS
Or you can be a man and be hairy. Monumental waste of time.
Old spice is still continuing that type of advertising hasn’t stopped
I have literally never heard of this brand in my life and have no clue why anybody would ever buy it
They sponsor a lot of RUclips videos, and some people haven't learned the role that if they sponsor lots of RUclipsrs, it's because they're selling low quality for a high price. Landscape, raycon, Ridge, they all do the same thing. Cheap product branded well and advertised by "trendy" RUclips's, sold for multiple times the price of identical or even better quality products.
The only marketing for these I've seen have been sponsored segments on youtube vids. Though some reviews I've read say they nick just as much as any other trimmer does. Side note: wet wipes are fine, just don't flush em. use a trash can