Analyses of several samples of over-the-counter topical antimicrobial skin sanitizer and skin protectant products revealed high levels of various bacteria, including some associated with unsanitary conditions, according to the agency. Some of these bacteria can cause opportunistic infections of the skin and underlying tissues and could result in medical or surgical attention as well as permanent damage.

Wait what? “antimicrobial skin sanitizer and skin protectant products revealed high levels of various bacteria”

Now that is some epic failure right there.

For the record, you don’t need to kill off your skin bacteria unless you’d like to live a fairly unpleasant life. We haven’t spent hundreds of millions of years evolving a support system for them if we were meant to live without them.

Putting the con back in beauty products, Clarcon.

[edit: speaking of epic failure, i apparently thought we'd only spent hundreds of years evolving our bacterial systems, making myself sound creationist. Hundreds of millions of years would be the correct period.]

Tags: wtf, yes this is really how I amuse myself

This entry was posted on Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 21:27.