Pink Tax Explained #savemoney

[milotheviewer]

The “pink tax” doesn’t necessarily mean the product has to be pink itself, just that the product is the “women’s version” of a standard product (i.e how deodorant marketed towards women is often smaller and costs more than men’s deodorant, while also often not being as effective). It’s not that they’re making products pink to appeal to women, it’s that they’re labeling products as the women’s version and up-charging it, despite not having much difference in quality or ability.

[oliverboii]

Brands just abuse the fact that women still buy them. If you want to beat the system as a woman, nobody's stopping you from just buying a blue razor. If you buy the "woman's version" and still complain you're just stupid, it's a free market.

[nicholassheppard]

That's not how that works, the pink tax is provably false. Originally the pink tax terminology was started as an ad campaign done by the European Wax center.

[boomerman]

Well actually in most cases the pink tax doesn’t exist, like in shampoo and body wash, most women’s shampoo has more vitamins and thing to help strengthen and protect a women’s hair, while a man just needs something to get all the dirt and sweat out of his hair, their is one thing that I will say is pink taxed and that’s deodorant, most women’s deodorant cost more for less

[moonshroom]

I’m a guy, a year ago I bought women’s razors because they were CHEAPER than the men’s razors, you could by 8 for the same price as a man’s razor, quit believing everything you see on the internet and go to the store and see for yourselves

[thatoneperson]

Sometimes *SOMETIMES* It’s because it has more ingrediants

[georgewawman]

Well you know you could just buy the blue one.

[JonathanDiaz-onmo]

If your caught up in the middle of pink vs blue then just bye the blue one is it's the same. But don't forget you get more razors in the pink package than the blue package usually. And no one gives a crap about the color of a razor. I use whatever razor I can get when I need a razor regardless of color

[druhu]

by this logic there should be a pastel tax and a Purple Tax. but no, turns it the dyes to make plastic pink require more dye to color it properly, thus making it marginally more expensive. And the shampoo is highly specialized because women don't seem to want 4-in-1 soap shampoo conditioner lotion, so the cost ends up more and more because they want more meticulous recipes for better quality care.

some Men call having showered before an event with soap decent self care, not just the bare minimum, decent.

the pink tax can be fully explained away in basically every scenario by market forces. and if somebody wanted to scam an entire gender out of their money, why would they choose the gender that reads the bottle?

Why would they want to scam a gender that apprently makes 77 cents to the other's 1 dollar?

or maybe this entire facade is a sham and a distraction from the actually robbery this generation has experienced.

[gerardleclerc]

Pink is a harder color to produce/maintain the color during production.
Pink tax also includes men vs. woman shampoos, body wash, everything....🎉
Men: buy because it says shampoo on it, I've accidentally washed with a conditioner more than a few times.
Women: buy because the brand, commercials, ingredients,
If it was a Pink tax they didn't want to, they buy the "men's" product

[philognosis]

Actually the biggest differential costs sited are misleading. The Men's razor design assumes sight of the area to be shaved and no difficulty in position. Simpler shapes lighter construction and no rubber outer section. If one is say shaving legs additional features are useful.

But for the smaller different examples with much more similar products. Men on average are less willing to pay premium features so the difference in size between market segments creates a different average cost. This explains most of the already small remaining difference.

[steves]

Razors in general are horribly overpriced - they cost pennies to make, yet the manufacturers charge many times the price. We're all being taken for a ride there and yet we still buy them.

Also, the reason they are often locked up in some stores is that they are (were) one of the most frequently stolen items.

[agunemon]

Cbc marketplace did an exposé on this years ago

[zacharyhagen]

Red and pink dye molecules are the largest molecules, so it’s harder to get it to stick. They have to use a lot more dye to get the same saturation with red and pink dyes.

[rachelnelson]

I’ve always bought the blue ones for me and my husband. The only problem is he would use mine and dull them!🤬

[robertbrodie]

people have the right to buy product based on thier own values if price is valued more then color or vis versa thats the persons choice suggested reading adam smith il sell you one in blue or pink hard cover

[evilbiohazard]

Then if they're the same one just buy the male one?

[johnboy]

Yeah I feel this I was picking up some alcohol at the store the other day for my girl and she drinks vodka and there's like the skinny vodka but has pink glitter in it it's almost 3 times the cost so I asked the guy liquor Barn what the difference was and he said they put it in a plastic skinnygirl lookie bottle with pink glitter and I should probably just get the $6 bottle cuz it taste about the same

[ThePhototropism]

Incorrect. It is the economy of scale. A thing gets cheaper to make the more of it you sell.

[emmanuelfuentes]

R/pointlesslygedered honestly just make everything cost the same and the fancy ones cost more these are really dumb that we make people pay more for a color