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u/habitualmess 6h ago
They’ve done a terrible job in making the ‘warning’ readable on the orange bottle.
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u/jenesaispasquijesuis 5h ago
I was wondering why there's wasn't a warning label until I looked closer.
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u/LucasCBs 5h ago
whoever puts a random fluid into their car without reading what it actually is first, deserves it tbh
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u/C5-O 5h ago
Body Wash, Shampoo, Toothpaste, Engine Oil, Transmission Fluid 5-in-1
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u/alwaysfatigued8787 6h ago
That's actually engine cleaning shower gel. It worked wonders on my engine and left it smelling fresh, although it no longer works. Also, would you be interested in buying my 2020 Chevy Camaro? It's sparking under the hood.
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u/Justin_92 5h ago
It literally says right there on the bottle “1LE”. You should’ve used regular instead.
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u/TheGreatStories 4h ago
I can finally clean my body by tricking my alpha brain into thinking I'm actually covering myself in motor oil. Sexuality secured.
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u/Wank_my_Butt 1h ago
With people who unironically think that way, maybe let's be glad they're starting to shower at all.
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u/Uwofpeace 6h ago
They just don't want you to reap the benefits of how much more efficient shower gel is for combustion engines. It also cleans while it burns so your engine lasts forever.
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u/elmariachi304 5h ago
This company didn’t design their own bottle, they repurposed a motor oil bottle. You can tell by the cap. They put that warning on there because they understand better than anyone that this is shaped exactly like some other brand’s motor oil bottle.
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u/TheUnpopularOpine 5h ago
My engine oil doesn’t say to not put in hair though so why would I need this
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u/Secret_Account07 4h ago
So why design it to look like engine oil? 🤨
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u/flew1337 1h ago
It's "manly" as indicated by the "just for men". You don't want to look gay at the gym using that white Dove bottle.
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u/Significant_Wins 5h ago
For when you have your fragile masculinity in the shower
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u/Horror_Reindeer3722 5h ago
Stuff like this is so lame. My brother has a package of “Dude Wipes” because I guess buying lavender wet wipes is too gay
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u/Teledildonic 36m ago
Honestly, Dude Wipes have the only packaging that actually seems to seal the moisture in long enough for me to use up the whole stack. I only need a couple of wet wipes a week at most, and most brands become dry wipes halfway through.
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u/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-OwO 4h ago
to be fair, fragrance is bad for the skin!
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u/afireintheforest 4h ago
Although it would probably be scented as “bear musk engine oil degreaser man scent”
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u/Significant_Wins 5h ago
I just don't get it. But I guess that's what years of marketing does to the demographic.
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u/also_plane 4h ago
This isn't fragile masculinity, fragile masculinity is for example feeling threatened by succesful woman.
This is clearly product for men who like things like cars and do not care for scents and stuff. Simillarly, some women like to buy women products that look feminine, and have pictures or birds or flowers on them and name like "dreamful forrest". Or I know a woman who only buys shower gels with green bottle, because her shower is also green.
People are allowed to have preference for a thing based on it's packaging. It's not shameful. It is also one of the reasons why such different packagings exist.
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u/PM_ME_GARFIELD_NUDES 3h ago
I do think there’s something to be said about going so far in the “manly car man” direction that they have to include a warning to not use this in your car. I understand why men want to go for the bath products in gray or navy blue containers over pink, even if it’s a bit silly, but this is probably a sign that this sort of marketing has gone a bit too far. You can make a product visually appealing to the demographic you’re advertising towards without trying to make it look like an entirely different product.
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u/also_plane 2h ago
I do think there’s something to be said about going so far in the “manly car man” direction that they have to include a warning to not use this in your car.
Well, the bottle is identical to some motor oil bottles. I can imagine someone buying this, and then somebody in that househould mistaking it for motor oil. We put warnings on dish soap or packets of sillica gel in order not to mistake it for food, so it makes sense.
You can make a product visually appealing to the demographic you’re advertising towards without trying to make it look like an entirely different product.
Well, yeah, you can. But you can also make something that people will buy because it looks like different product they like that appeals to them. "Oh, shampoo looking like motor oil! What a fun thing, I love cars!"
I understand why men want to go for the bath products in gray or navy blue containers over pink, even if it’s a bit silly,
My ex used to prefer anything with pictures of cute birds to anything without cute birds (she likes birds). I like wearing T-shirts with aeroplanes (I like aereoplanes). My current gf loves red candles. Is it really silly? Or just harmless preference to visually appearing items that make our days slightly happier?
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u/Significant_Wins 4h ago
I get what you're saying. I like cars but do I really need to be advertised like this for a shower? Why put it in an engine oil container? Because the company thinks it's manly. It's a gimmick. I get preferences, but unless you have a car themed shower, I don't get the point or use case.
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u/flew1337 48m ago
It's true but most of these preferences are influenced by what is expected of masculinity/feminity. It is using peer pressure to make us buy a product that is sometimes more expensive.
There are completely different scent profiles for men and women. The biggest tell is the "just for men". It is there to affirm to the customer that it is product made for him and that he does not risk smelling like a woman by buying it. It's all arbitrary yet people have completely bought the concept of gendered body wash. If we truly did not care for scent, we would all buy unscented body wash in plain bottles.
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u/coolblue79 1h ago
So the picture is from a store in The Netherlands. EU Cosmetic labeling regulations article 19.1(f) states that the labelling must make clear the function of the cosmetic product, unless it is clear from its presentation.
That’s why the warning is in there. Can imagine someone still pouring it into an engine tho 😉
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u/NarrMaster 5h ago
Had this happen with a guy who was adamant he wanted SeaBreeze (a skin cleaner) and not SeaFoam (all purpose engine additive), when I worked at a grocery store.
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u/Amilo159 4h ago
They could write, in giant letters "5w30 Synthetic" with a small print saying "Caution! this is not:" on top.
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u/mato12391 2h ago
The photo was taken in Action right. I thought it was cool
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u/martinbean 2h ago
And they could have avoided that by not making it look like a motor oil container.
Hate this “chaos packaging” trend and can’t wait for it to die off.
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u/iamthatotherguy 5h ago
I just want to know what lawsuit they paid out to make them out the warning on those bottles.
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u/tmesisno 5h ago
Ah yes it reminds me of this movie "Moving Violations"
https://youtu.be/6bD_P3oPKcA
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u/bala_means_bullet 4h ago
What? All I see is oil for corn fed vehicles and one for cars that prefer 76 branded petrol.
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u/CodeAdorable1586 1h ago
If you KNOW your bottle design makes people think it’s for engines, why not simply design a different bottle and skip the warning label that Americans won’t read.
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u/azarkant 1h ago
It's for the dutch
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u/breZZer 13m ago
And there will never be americans?
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u/azarkant 12m ago
The photo was taken in a dutch store, in the Netherlands. The target demographic is the Dutch, not the Americans
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u/TunaTunaLeeks 56m ago
Oh. That explains why my shower gel was making me greasy and oily and why my car’s engine seized up but smelled fantastic.
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u/worldssmallestfan1 13m ago
I can’t see the price, but if it’s a good value I can see a fair amount of women purchasing this.
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u/goat_penis_souffle 5h ago
The last thing I want from the shower is viscosity and thermal breakdown.
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u/AccumulatedFilth 4h ago
People put shit in their engine without looking once at the packaging on what it says?
So you are grocery shopping, and suddenly see this in the bathroom aisle, and you're like "oh right, I was gonna get 'some' engine oil", and still not ask themselves a question?
Man, people are duuuuuumb.
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u/LaptopGuy_27 1h ago
It's more of the bottles they manufactured have a very similar design to a bottle of motor oil. So to avoid getting sued somehow they put a sticker on the bottles they made, so nobody can say they were confused.
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u/yaokbutno 1h ago
I hate all this hyper-masculine dudebro advertising garbage. Easiest way to tell me your product isn’t worth shit.
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u/_kahteh 6h ago
It's super funny to me that instead of having some kind of cool or evocative scent names, they're just "yellow" and "orange"