Optrex Actimist Eye Spray….
Well you have probably heard of folks calculating the price of printer ink by the gallon, £1000-£4,000!
Having spent £14.00 on Optrex Actimist Eye Spray I was disappointed to find that it just made my tired, itchy eyes sticky but no less irritated.
I got even more irritated when I read the ingredients and got out my calculator.
Apparently my £14.00 bottle contains 10ml of product so a whole litre of the product would cost £1400
Each 1ml contains
Soy Lectin 10 mg
Sodium Chloride 8 mg
Ethanol 8mg
Phenoxyethanol 5mg
Vitamin A Palmitate 0.25mg
Vitamin E 0.02mg
The rest is Purified Water.
Totting that up I get 31.27 mg of ingredients in water. Well, 1 ml ( millilitre, or thousandth of a litre) weighs a whole gram so my 31.27 mg is just 3% of the contents of the bottle.
So with the product costing £1400 a litre and the active ingredients only constituting 3.127% of the product then the active ingredients are being charged at a whopping £ 44,771 a litre or £203,598 a gallon!
So what are these active ingredients?
Soy Lectin – a simple plant extract.
Sodium Chloride – common salt.
Ethanol – plain old alcohol.
Phenoxyethanol – a common ingredient in sunscreens and the like.
Vitamin A Palmitate – a derivative of plain old vitamin A.
Vitamin E – pretty self explanatory too, Vitamin E is a common preservative by the way.
So nothing very exciting there then.
Welcome to another example of Rip-Off Britain, £ 203,598 a gallon for common ingredients for itchy eyes that didn’t really work for me.
Hope it works for you..
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