At first, I didn't think about the remark, I just thought she was being weird. But after a while, she and I compared almost all of the deodorant brands, prices, and sizes, concluding that not only does men's deodorant come in a larger size, it is cheaper. For example, Secret's Smooth Effects Conditioning Solid Antiperspirant/Deodorant is $7.37 for a 2.6 oz container. However, Arrid XX sells men's deodorant for the same exact size for $2.00. Since when was this ok??
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| I mean look at the difference!! Men's for 2.7 oz for 73.5 cents every ounce. The women's deodorant, however, is only 2.6 oz and is $1.28 every ounce. This is atrocious. |
When you break everything down, companies always do what they do to make more money. i'm working completely on stereotypes here, but i think it is safe to say that women tend to use more deodorant than men, usually because men don't care as much about hygiene or smell. The deodorants probably cost the same amount to make, but they know they can profit more if they make the higher demanded item more expensive. This can also open the discussion of why women tend to care about hygiene and smell more than men.
ReplyDelete(This is going off of Ethan's comment) Based on stereotypes, I would definitely agree with Ethan that women generally tend to care about hygiene more than men. This is because women can't smell bad or else her femininity won't be glorified and men will be horrified and not attracted to her.(check out my blogpost about Nash Grier!!!) These are the standards that society has set for women to irrationally reach. Also going off of that, Ethan mentioned how men don't care as much about their smell as well. This is because a part of being "masculine," in society's terms, include smelling "like a man." If men smell like fresh flowers or whatever deodorant scent there is, his masculinity will be diminished by the media's definition of masculinity.
ReplyDeleteWow I never realized that. That's actually really crazy because I also noticed from my personal experience and of some of my friends' experiences, that men's deodorant is way more effective than women's deodorant. Which makes sense since men usually sweat more than women because of their testosterone levels, but then since that is the case, I wonder why men's deodorant is less expensive. That leads me to the question: Why are companies like Dove trying to sell women a much less effective deodorant for so much money while Axe sells men cheap, very effective deodorant? It makes me wonder what comes into play here...
ReplyDeleteThat's really interesting if you notice that and adding on to the whole stereotype thing when i thing about who has better hygiene i think that women do. Women are more seen as the clean character who uses a ton of beauty products while men seen as a dirty character who never even shower. Event though this is what we think of when it comes to hygiene, the market over the past couple of years has changed. Men are becoming a lot more interested in hygiene which is why i find it interesting that mens deodorant is still a lot cheaper than women's.
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