topic Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code in Beauty

skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

gonnab — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:54:50 GMT

I understand that many of the high-end skincare products frequently have more affordable dupes. We all know that L'Oreal Paris owns Lancome and I''m sure they must duplicate many of their products. One frequently mentioned is Youth Code Serum ($11-12) which is widely rumored to be the same as Genefique ($60). I'm sure that there are more. e.i. - Lancome has a very nice day dream (Absolue) but it's super expensive ($l80) - is there a similar L'Oreal cream? Does anyone know of a site where such information is available? I know that Paula Begouin (Cosmetic Cop) frequently alludes to them but she never specifies. I've done a search on Google but nothing came up.

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

Harpa — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:01:26 GMT

There is an iphone app for drugstore versions of ""high end"" things:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drugstore-dupes-find-affordable/id572430453?mt=8

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

Tricolor — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:01:04 GMT

My DD works for a derm and they recently hired a new aesthetician. She told my DD not to waste her money on Genifique. In fact, she most of the dept store skincare is not worth the price. Goodness I have spent tons of money on skincare!

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

MarenSeattle — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:14:27 GMT

On 2/9/2014 Tricolor said:
My DD works for a derm and they recently hired a new aesthetician. She told my DD not to waste her money on Genifique. In fact, she most of the dept store skincare is not worth the price. Goodness I have spent tons of money on skincare!

When I was in advertising, I was amazed to learn HOW MUCH effort and MONEY goes into packaging. Lots of focus group testing, lots of expensive packaging, which of course ups the price of the product. Not to mention the advertising costs.

Even knowing that, I still reach for the package that I find most appealing, and kind of ignore the less attractive ones.

So yeah, I've no doubt the big companies have less expensive alternatives available under different brand names. They have the actives and ingredients and recipes, they'd want to make as much money off of it as possible, across all price points.

Good thread -- thanks!!

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

MarenSeattle — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:16:13 GMT

On 2/9/2014 Harpa said:
There is an iphone app for drugstore versions of "high end" things:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drugstore-dupes-find-affordable/id572430453?mt=8

Thanks, Harpa -- cool! I'm finding these days though, I'm buying fewer and fewer "commercial" items. Going to the app store, now!

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

Tricolor — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:52:26 GMT

On 2/9/2014 MarenSeattle said:
On 2/9/2014 Tricolor said:
My DD works for a derm and they recently hired a new aesthetician. She told my DD not to waste her money on Genifique. In fact, she most of the dept store skincare is not worth the price. Goodness I have spent tons of money on skincare!

When I was in advertising, I was amazed to learn HOW MUCH effort and MONEY goes into packaging. Lots of focus group testing, lots of expensive packaging, which of course ups the price of the product. Not to mention the advertising costs.

Even knowing that, I still reach for the package that I find most appealing, and kind of ignore the less attractive ones.

So yeah, I've no doubt the big companies have less expensive alternatives available under different brand names. They have the actives and ingredients and recipes, they'd want to make as much money off of it as possible, across all price points.

Good thread -- thanks!!

Maren, I just get weak in the knees over packaging. Of course that certainly does not indicate the quality of the product but it sure lures me in. Thank you for your information. I really have learned alot from the wonderful women on this board.

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

ForTheLuv — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:00:44 GMT

On 2/9/2014 Tricolor said:
My DD works for a derm and they recently hired a new aesthetician. She told my DD not to waste her money on Genifique. In fact, she most of the dept store skincare is not worth the price. Goodness I have spent tons of money on skincare!

Surprise, surprise. Hopefully one day, more people will catch on. But there are those, as witnessed by posts above, that buy because of pretty packaging. People foolishy believe that something that LOOKS fancy is going to work better...even more so, if it is more expensive, it is better. SMH!

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

Tricolor — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:41:08 GMT

On 2/9/2014 ForTheLuv said:
On 2/9/2014 Tricolor said:
My DD works for a derm and they recently hired a new aesthetician. She told my DD not to waste her money on Genifique. In fact, she most of the dept store skincare is not worth the price. Goodness I have spent tons of money on skincare!

Surprise, surprise. Hopefully one day, more people will catch on. But there are those, as witnessed by posts above, that buy because of pretty packaging. People foolishy believe that something that LOOKS fancy is going to work better...even more so, if it is more expensive, it is better. SMH!

Isn't that the truth! I have some good old favs that that I buy from the drugstore and work great. Just bought a coral blush today by Revlon. I saw that Nars has a shade called Final Cut and really thought it would be pretty for Spring. When I saw this Revlon shade, I swear that it could be a dupe for the Nars.

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

gonnab — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:35:18 GMT

Thanks for that IPhone App - downloaded it and it gives some good info!

Re: skincare dupes, e.i. - Genefique vs Youth Code

cassiem — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:44:11 GMT

You can compare ingredient lists between the high end brand products and their drugstore counterparts. (ie: compare Lancome absolue ingredients to the L'Oreal moisturizers to see if there is something like it) I find that the lists are often similar, but not identical.