That is exactly what I was wondering..is it better products for us at better prices? One of the questions in my original post was about the ingredients and if they are different from one pantene product to another?
I'm not trying to start a battle against pantene, just trying to figure stuff out. I know the shiny new R&N bottle looks nicer then the stuff on the cultural shelves as i've seen this aswell but if the products on the cultural shelves are in a sad state then we should complain to the store for leaving them that way.
I'm not criticizing...just wondering if it is not the same thing..when a black sista purchases R&N is it still not going to be seen as a "cultural product". I like seeing the ads aswell but I don't really see it as any different then purchasing a black product that whites have never heard because it still is a "black product" just marketed by a largely known white company...if only half those store clerks realized many of those "black products" they leave looking ragged on the store shelves are manufactured by largely know white companies... I never even realized how many products out their geared towards us were made by REVLON.
I think it is innovative of pantene to try to target people this way....but I also wonder about the ingredients. I know that a lot of us will critique a new product..write to the company asking for ingredients...etc, yet to tell you the truth ..I have no idea what is in the pantene because where I am the ingredients are not listed on the bottles. I am just wondering if pantene has taken the same old ingredients found in many of the "black products" that we have written off and remarketed it under the pantene name which some of us psychologically equate with long beautiful hair.(someone had mentioned that it has petrolatum). Agian, I am not starting a war against pantene..just interested in opinions and such because to me it is an interesting topic.
Might make for a good essay for marketing class or psychology!
