• Never buy from any company that does not respond to your emails or telephone enquiries or clarifications promptly. Any response within 7 days is considered acceptable. Within 3 days is best. Within 24 hours is superb service. By delaying in their response or failing to respond, it is clear they aren't interested in helping you solve your skin problem. They are only keen in making a quick sale to rip you off.
• Never buy from a company that spends more in commercial advertisements than in providing better honest customer service. You can see them promoting their brand image primarily through heavy advertising. If a company continuously does that it clearly shows that they are abusing the power of advertisements to deceive people to buy their Skin Care products not through the real strength of their product efficacy but through deceptive advertising claims. They did this by paying copy-writers to write convincing deceptive stories, and celebrities to lie.
• Never buy a Skin Care product or set of products just because of their big names. Find out from friends and acquaintances if the product you intend to buy really performs. Even if they have given you positive answers, see for yourself with your own eyes if their skin complexion really improved since the last time you met him/her. Many people sub-consciously recommend a particular brand of Skin Care product because of the perceived brand image through heavy advertising and aggressive marketing, and not necessarily through the individual person's own positive and satisfactory personal experience.
• Never buy skin care products that have short product life cycles. Eg. You see them claiming that a particular product or range of products have been newly discovered (revolutionary) in repeated glossy ads with celebrities endorsing them; but within 6 months to a year, they are off the market, and another 'new' product or 'new' range is launched with another new deceptive story. Most times they will reduce prices drastically to clear their inventory within 3 to 6 months of launching. Ask yourself - why would genuine revolutionary product(s) need to reduce price and phase out so drastically within such a short period after launch?, unless of course end-users never repeat their purchases, and never spread good words of the product to their friends and acquaintances.

Many manufacturers simply prefer the lesser and cheaper effort of using standard Skin Care product formulations given to them free by chemical companies, rather than spending time-consuming and costly effort in researching and developing efficacious formulations to effectively treat the varied and complicated skin(complexion) problems. Likewise, most importers also prefer to distribute products with big names strictly for marketing rationale rather than ensuring that the products they are selling deliver what were claimed.

In some countries ( including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan, HongKong, China ), it is not uncommon to find companies importing/procuring inexpensive, illegal, Skin Care products in bulk from some backyard factories, and packaging them at their own homes or backyards. They would then market them under a nice sounding brand name of their own, and putting up great advertising campaign across various medium, and selling each product between US$150.00 and US$700.00, by passing them off as quality Skin Care products imported from France, USA, Germany, etc. Sounds ridiculous and unbelievable? But it's true. Check it out yourself HERE Many of these companies first started to sell these Skin Care products in their own salons. Within a year or two, with their false claims and exhorbitant prices, many could branch out into 3, 5, and more than 10 salons even. They then try to go into franchising to fool other traders.

The following invaluable piece of Skin Care information is knowledge acquired through my own research, on how most skin flaws came about and how you can prevent them to confidently maintain a continuous Clear, Silky, Youthful, Babysoft Complexion. I hope you will find them useful in making decisions before making any purchase of Skin Care products.

Yours sincerely