Hot take: those $200 serum treatments at the mall kiosk are a total ripoff

I was walking through the mall in St. Louis last weekend and overheard a lady at one of those kiosks telling someone that her $220 vitamin C serum would "transform their skin in one application." I actually do cosmetology on the side and I've been mixing my own vitamin C serums at home for around $15 a bottle. The stuff they sell at those kiosks is mostly just water, glycerin, and a tiny amount of active ingredients that degrade in the light anyway. I used to work at a salon that sold similar high-end serums and the markup was like 400% on stuff you can buy the same base ingredients for online. Has anyone else ever compared the ingredient lists on these mall serums to drugstore stuff and seen theyre basically the same thing?

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taylor66816d ago

Yeah, that tracks. The mall kiosk people are ruthless with those prices.

elizabethn5616d ago

Funny how the same stuff costs triple just for being in the middle of the mall.