As we enter the new century every company worth its salt is spending ever more cash on trying to find ways of making money out of the Internet.
The Internet is under siege. Businesses large and small are determined to find new ways to use the Net, and new technologies to add to it, that they might somehow wring massive profits from the vast potential customer base it represents. Two approaches dominate, derived from traditional retailing, and from the mass media.
We know about making money by entertaining and informing people, say the media moguls. Surely we can graft our experience on to this digital world and make money from it too?
We know about making money by selling things to people air max 98 france , say the retail giants. Surely we can make even more money if we can reduce inventory and staffing costs with a virtual store, while simultaneously reaching a bigger market?
Noticeably on both these approaches is that they are based on supply rather than demand. In other words, businesses are saying. I?ve got something I want you to buy. Ironically, the general trend of most management thinking in recent years has been away from this model, to one which is demand driven, or air max 97 france , put simply, businesses saying; Let me help you get what you want.
This move towards a customer focused model is strikingly absent in most e-business discussions. Instead, we get what can almost be seen as a paternalistic approach ? even colonial ? where businesses try to impose e-business models on their customers rather than responding to their explicit wants and needs.
This, of course, is hardly new. Indeed, most new technologies go through an early phase where those who designed and those who are charged with selling the technology try to dictate how it should be used. Over a century ago air max 95 france , Alexander Graham Bell was using his newly patented electrical speech machine or telephone as a broadcast device, something which would allow people living in Boston to hear a Mozart symphony being played in New York City.
Later, when the telephone?s excellence at two way communication was established, many objected to its use for anything other than business ? something as frivolous as having a chat being seen as deeply reprehensible. This disapproval, of course, suggests that people were using telephones for social conversation air max 90 france , rather than what the technology supplier thinks they ought to do. In the end the customer won. The customer always does.
Ironically, when radio was first invented it was seen primarily as a tool for two-way, one-to-one communications, a use that ? baring military walkie-talkies and the like ? only became mainstream with the recent growth of cellular communications. Its killer application became broadcast.
Home computers provide another example. Initially, the market for such devices was seen to be vanishingly small. After all, who needed to run a payroll at home? Nevertheless air max 720 france , the home computer flourished ? despite often, a great deal of contempt from real computer people at the frivolous uses to which it was put. Indeed, it is only in the past couple of years that the mainstream uses of home computers have been accepted by the IT mainstream ? purely because the hunger for a better quality gaming experience has driven technological development in ways that most business applications can never hopefully do.
When most people read about ethical and natural cosmetic products, they generally tend to wonder what ethical cosmetics are, and never really consider how it affects them. If that is their view, then they have a problem - if not now air max 270 france , then they will have in the future, because an increasing number of harmful chemicals are being used in a large number of cosmetic products to meet the needs of big business.
A lot has to do with the FDA, whose decisions appear to be based on the large Pharma corporations and the support they engender in the senate and congress. Potentially harmful substances, such as sodium lauryl sulfate and antifreeze, are allowed to be used in skin care products where such products are known to be harmful. However, that is totally irrelevant to this article which is intended primarily to explain the terms 'ethical' and 'natural' in reference to cosmetics and other personal care products.
Here are some aspects of ethical products that you should be aware of before you make any decision on which personal care product to use.
Animal Testing
Animal testing might be necessary in some instances where it could save human life air max 2019 france , and with regard to research into drugs and medicines, it can be argued that animal research has done, and will continue to do, a lot to progress the development of drugs that have saved a great deal of human life and suffering.
While arguments can be made in this respect, and generally agreed to by the majority of people, why should we agree to blinding animals with increasing amounts of corrosive chemicals to determine how much can be used in a shampoo? Highly corrosive and toxic substances such as ethanolamine air max 2018 france , antifreeze and EDTA have been tested on animals to the extreme in order to enable big business to produce cosmetic care products that are not harmful to humans. What's wrong with the natural products that we already knew to be non-harmful? Money!
There are many ethical products on sale to cover all of your cosmetic needs and personal care needs without having to purchase those have had caused animal suffering. Hair care, skin care, facial products and many, many more are available online that have never seen an animal because they are natural products such as coconut oil, olive oil or shea nut extracts.