since i was commenting/complaining to my friend about this, i might as well record it on my blog as well. for the records.

last week or some time "long ago" i went for a vendor training session conducted by guardian for activa and wenken. FYI, activa carries things like cellulite max and activawhite, "the extra effective whitening cream, which promises to lighten your skin by one tone after the first use, and effects last up to one week!" and Wenken has products like Glucoscare tea (which blocks your glucose intake and sensory receptors of glucose) and tongkat ali PLUS. be sure not to mistake this with the $60 beikin tongkat ali PURE extract which my outlet has been running out of stock of.

anyway, back to what i was saying, the activa reps were somewhat convincing, they managed to prove their claims to us, though some of us still have suspicions about it.

Sidetrack: activawhite contains titanium dioxide. this might aid in the whitening illusion, as it's white, any residue left on the skin contributes to the whitening experience. furthermore, not many people use scrubs on their hands. while a minority of us might use scrubs twice a week on our face, to "renew our skin", we don't really do that for our hands right? so i think, the effects would be less obvious if the whitening cream was used on the face. whitening by exfoliation that is...like who will apply the cream to half your face and compare before and after...even if you think it doesn't work, you won't risk your face for that.

back to what i was saying again, just when i was thinking the vendor training session wasn't all promo/publicity and fluff, the tongkat ali reps, of sorry, i mean wenken reps, came in and proved what we believed earlier true.

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i was freaking irritated at the tongkat ali reps. i asked about why their tongkat ali PLUS is so effective, they say, it's coz the contains TCM which strengthens your kidneys. then why does strengthening one's kidneys help testosterone production/rid fatigue...(speculating some theory on yin and yang balance coupled with five elements) he said, no no no, it's not that. but later when he showed me the product write-up, it was exactly what he denied.

not to mention claims like "no known contraindictions with western medicines" which one might interpret as: so studies have been done but no contraindications have been found. however, in actual fact it's: we never did any clinical trials, we just believe so. and their statistics has a sample size of 35.... that doesn't even allow central limit theorem to take effect.