They need to go live in the bottom of the ocean and see if they are protected.

Did you look at the founder who died? He claimed to have personally tested his products. Well, with all the wrinkles and sagging aged skin on his face he is NOT a TESTIMONIAL to the effectiveness of their line!

No wonder Americans can’t stand the French…

The product can not work for the following simple reason: Thermus Thermophillus needs a temperature of 40-60C to become heat activated…converted that is 104-140F. No HUMAN in their RIGHT MIND is going to heat up their face to that temperature to “PROTECT” it from EM waves.

How is this stuff suppose to work if it is “SPRAYED” over a moisturizer and make up?

Clarins 3P=the new snakeoil. At least with alternative medicine it has been around for centuries and there are some scientific studies on it, but, this product claims are beyond belief.

Christian Courtin-Clarins=Bullshit artist Par Excellence!

The FDA oversees bull like this and should be notified. What next, if you sprtiz 3P from a mister it will protect you from Chem Trails?

Admittedly, Anonymous is an obvious shill with an agenda, but many “genuine” folks maintain a similar degree of doublethink (although really it’s ‘triplethink’ at least).

When this blog and others point out the fact that someone like Patrick Holford or Gillian McKeith have no formal qualifications, they’re either supported because they’ve “been working the field for [n] years”, or the very idea of requiring formal qualifications in order to speak as an authority on a subject is rubbished.

THEN people come along and make comments to the effect of “What makes you so smart, you with no qualifications in the field?”

They then, having firmly established the prerequisites for holding a valuable opinion, proceed to tell you you’re wrong… an opinion they hold which is generally based on no qualifications.

This is compounded by people’s apparent obliviousness to the fact that the issues on which you are commenting require nothing more than a general understanding of the subject matter, a good understanding of the scientific method, a logical mind and a spirit of enquiry.

Oh, and Anonymous? For the record, I suppose I am a scientist for what it’s worth, although a common complaint of so-called “electrosensitives” is that when studies fail to show above-chance results in provocation tests to demonstrate the existence of EMS, it’s because they’re run by the “wrong type” of scientist.

The wrong type being, apparently, any scientist who fails to demonstrate the existence of EMS as a phenomenon.

Anyway, rant over. This tickled me:

“I have no desire to look or feel younger despite my loving husbands nagging!”

Quite apart from the implied admission of bigamy, I wouldn’t call any husband (or husbands, the jury is out) “loving” who nags you to look or feel younger…

The Clarins people are not trying to advise us on the effects of electromagnetic frequencies on our skin: they’re trying to sell us very expensive goop with no demonstrable protective benefits against phenomena that do no demonstrable harm.

We ARE asking ourselves “What if what they’re saying is true?”, and we’re asking the Clarins researchers to tell us how they came to their conclusions. Is that so unreasonable?

Keep up the good work.

For five years I ran the radio interference-tracing section of the Irish state commumications regulator. We dealt with the problems that no-one else could solve and the cases were diverse and interesting. We reviewed many cases of ‘Electrosensitives’ and, although we tried to be as open-minded as possible, we never found a genuine case.

The symptoms certainly appeared genuine, but we could find no evidence to tie these symptoms to electro-magnetic radiation. An example is the lady who lived in a rural area but suffered a reaction to the emissions from a mobile phone tower in the nearest town. It was sufficiently far away that I was unable to see the offending antennas, even using binoculars.

She relieved her symptoms by installing a cellular phone jammer, which works by transmitting interference(illegally as it happens) on the frequencies used by cellular phones.

I had to explain gently that the radiation which she was receiving from the little box in her garage was over 100 times more powerful than the signal from the telephone tower…

Your point is good about pseudoscience directed at women. One might naively presume that pseudoscience would be the stuff of ‘Men’s health’ magazine. But no. One area where pseudoscience is strongly directed at men is hi end HiFi – again the expense must justify it.

“They are after all scientist in the field of beauty”

That is one of the funniest comments on this site so far. Clarins are making claims that contradict all that is known about electromagnetic radiation and somehow ‘Beauty Science’ supercedes it.

Even if there are people who are truly ‘electrosensitive’ (and the evidence is weak) then this E3p mist spray looks more likely to be taking advantage of them rather than helping them.

Until Mr Clarins et al. publish their work we cannot know and must be very suspicious.

(Disclaimer etc: I am not affiliated with the site in any way, though I have bought some of her products.)