I wouldn’t even be surprised if this is just a shift in marketing. The “Vegan” label, in particular, has fallen out of style as more and more men become obsessed with meat-based diets.
It’s some kind of hair gel, you don’t eat it.
It says paste right there though.
???
Keto, paleo, whatever the roid king is doing. The share of people picking that up and going “ew, vegan, it’ll probably turn me into a soy boy” is probably bigger than the share of people who only buy vegan products, OR the savings of cutting those 6% of natural ingredients are worth losing the latter share of buyers. Bottom line is the company’s bottom line.
“Now made with actual
bitchbeach boys!!”You are showing them backwards - the NEW formulation is the one that says vegan. Did you buy the second one at Big Lots or something?
Clearly they’ve added unnatural meat to the formula! Ew!
“Matt” paste? Isn’t it “matte” or am I taking crazy pills again?
Edit: What the fuck… It’s spelled differently in the UK, the US, and Canada (where I’m from). It’s matte in Canada, mat in US, and matt in the UK.
From the Government of Canada website: https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/matte-mat-matt
USA here- matte
I’m like 90% sure it’s matte in the UK.
It’s definitely matte in the USA.
From the UK. I’ve never seen matte spelled as matt. CA, UK and AU are generally pretty close with spelling, whereas the US is usually off doing its own thing. It’s a similar thing to blonde and blond.
Blonde = female; blond = male
But that’s the french’s fault.
What if they’re non-binary?
Blond because French defaults to the masculine form if the gender of the noun is indeterminate.
Blondə
Blondx
If they’re non-binary, you’re going to be so anxious about using the right pronouns that you won’t even notice their hair color.
Being considerate just takes practice.
Nah, most enbys are chill and recognize that pronouns can be easy to forget. You’re just upset that people get annoyed when you repeatedly misgender them.
I had firsthand experience when an enby stayed at our place for a while. My old Gen X self had trouble remembering to use the correct pronouns sometimes, but it got easier with practice. Decades of using only binary pronouns for individuals takes time to unlearn.
I’ll be honest, it took me a while to start remembering “they/them”, even for myself. However, now I have the opposite problem, which is that I tend to substitute “they/them” for gendered pronouns. Normally that’s not a problem because most people accept neutral pronouns, but some people can be very picky about their pronouns and then I have to remember that “they/them” can’t be universally applied to everyone.
Have you talked to your therapist about that?
I thought it was blond = hair colour and blonde = person with blond hair.
Excuse me wtf
I shit you not, that is the etymological distinction between the two.
How strictly that distinction is observed is an open question.
Yep all 3 are valid, matte is the new variant. https://www.etymonline.com/word/matte#etymonline_v_9722
And I’ve seen all 3 in use in the USA. It’s not matte = Canada. I’ve seen matte more than mat which is historically the spelling. The oed doesn’t list matt as the proper spelling but who knows with the brits.
Chamber’s dictionary has it as “Mat, or Matt, or matte” stating that it comes from the French “mat” or the German “matt”, so fuck knows where matte comes from!
Thirding the notion that it’s definitely not “mat” in the US. A mat is something you put on the ground, Matt is my cousin’s ex-fiance, and matte is a surface finish with little to no shine.
Really don’t know what people say English is hard to learn, we use the same word for so many things that there’s fewer words to learn /s
Why waste time say lots words when few words do trick?
Pretty sure it’s matte in the US, too
Seconded. Literally have never seen it spelled mat.
“Mat” is a small rug usually for wiping shoes on. “Matt” is a boy’s name, short for Matthew. “Matte” means the opposite of glossy.
Mat is a man with no arms and no legs on the floor
Colour me surprised, at least you greybeards have honour enough to spell some words correct.
‘u’ died with the Queen. Have yo no respect?
Shooldn’t it be Qeen, or did “U” get berried with her?
I appreciate your cheekiness, sir
It’s matte in the US. I think the manufacturer is just being silly
Now I’m not saying anything, but I dated a Matt, and he did produce a lot of paste… I’d have to run the numbers to see if it’s viable for mass-production though.
Hmm, did you try it in your hair though?
… no comment
It looks like the 91% natural ingredients version has benzyl alcohol as a preservative which is typically synthetically derived and in my experience can drastically shift the bio-based ratio.
As far as I can see, the rest of the ingredients are the same, but the sourcing of those ingredients could be different which could also shift the naturally derived percentage.
Isn’t that stuff bad for your hair?
I haven’t heard that before but I don’t work on hair care products very often. Benzyl alcohol is used as a preservative in lots of cosmetic products though. It can be considered an allergen for some people, but overall it’s pretty safe (as far as we know so far).
Show me a gel/spray that isn’t. They are all going to be some form of ‘sticky,’ which means some form bonding, likely protein or carbohydrate based. Either of those will take oil from your hair when removed/washed off, and are obviously interacting with the keratin itself to create all the stickiness between hair strands.
Who’s Matt and how come you’ve got his paste?
My bet is on beeswax for the non-vegan ingredient.
Probably this and a synthetic emulsifier/surfactant or the like.
That would be vegan though
It depends. Many vegans see any product that “exploits” animals as nonvegan. That includes things like down feathers, wool and honey.
Not sure how Wool exploits animals, shearing sheep is good for their health as I understand it (keeping them from growing things, or getting too heavy/waterlogged to move and just… laying there and dying, amomgst other things.)
After a few sheers they’re off to the slaughterhouse once the wool quality degrades. The sheering is not for their benefit.
Sheep are selectively bred for their wool. Before humans started doing so, wild sheep did just fine without the need for shearing. So it’s pretty similar to milk in that if you don’t milk a modern dairy cow it will suffer, that doesn’t make milk an ethical product.
Not a natural ingredient though.
And beeswax is an animal product.
Okay, but Ephera’s comment was about the (non-)vegan ingredients.
You would be right. I have the same packs. I don’t know if I bought old stock, but I bought the pack with the blue lid recently, the black lid pack is older.
The black lid pack contains bee wax and more water than the blue lid pack (64% vs 57% of the natural ingredients).
It should not really matter I think. Maybe its just a marketing strategy.
For someone that doesn’t appreciate the formerly creamy yet cruelty free texture, maybe.
I don’t get this brand in my place if not I’ll try it. Look promising.
It’s no longer labeled vegan. A lot of producers actively avoid the label, despite the fact that the Vegan Society would provide their stamp of approval. I’ve heard somewhere putting it on your product lowers sales. All this to say, are you certain it’s actually not vegan anymore?
The reason the vegan label lowers sales is that smart people already read the product label, so they know it’s vegan either way. Lazy people who don’t like thinking need to be told that something is vegan. Vegans tend to be smart, and vegan-haters tend to hate thinking.
Someone said the non vegan version has bee wax in it.
That’s interesting! I also wonder if its a legal shielding technique to abandon the “vegan” label in case one of their upstream suppliers changes without notifying the manufacturer. If you never claim it to be vegan, you’ve in no danger of violation.
Vegan is not a regulated term. Plenty of products that say they are vegan still have animal products, such as honey.
There are people that hold specific definitions of the term “vegan”. If you never use the word, you can never run afoul of anyone’s definition.
Definitely a thing. Vegan can be hidden somewhere on some products, or they might use different language.
I ran an experiment a few years ago at a party I hosted. I had two trays of Oreos. One labeled ‘Oreos’, the other labeled ‘Vegan Oreos’. Now, Oreos are vegan, but aren’t labeled as such. I had to refill the standard Oreos a couple times throughout the night. The ‘Vegan’ labeled tray ended the night with more than half still there. Vegan definitely plays a role in sales, and not always for the best.
Huh. I always thought the white stuff was derived from milk
Love it. Science!
Not a randomized double-blind test, but science enough.
Poor matt
I’m the non vegan ingredient.
Door mat
Format
Floormat
You’re Matt
More fat
Black cat
Who is Matt and why did they turn him into paste for the attention of surfers?
They didn’t turn him into paste… It’s the paste that Matt…uh…produces.
Matt’s just fine, what do you think they made the paste out of? “Is that hair gel?”
I might be the non vegan ingredient.
Damn, I guess you will have to find a new hair product to eat.
I save my ear wax and just reuse that for hair paste. You need one of the gyroscope cleaners though to get enough wax.
gyroscope cleaners
You have my attention…
I think you might have gotten old stock when you bought a ‘new’ tin. When I look on their website, it only has the vegan formulation listed, and the ingredients do appear to be derived from non-animal sources.
