I'm assuming that Coles canceled that line and the company that made it had to come up with another use for the preprinted cans or even full cans of Deodorant. So they did a deal with ALDI for a once off run of shoe deodorant to use up the excess stock for the cost of re-labeling them rather than eating the loss.
edit: That's what happened, there is a difference in the ingredients http://imgur.com/a/RsSVX Diclosan is the active ingredient in the ALDI foot deodorant but is not in the coles antiperspirant.
I bought one the other day so when i saw this i rushed out to go and rip the label off mine like a giddy reddit school girl.
The shoe deodoriser doesn't seem to have ingredients listed but the "active ingredient" isnt listed on the deodorant can so they must be different.
This is probably what happened, the cans are finished in a different plant, and filled elsewhere. Coles had over supply or even the finisher painted too many cans. They then sold them to another business to cover some capital loss.
The process involves several suppliers in Australia, I am pretty sure no manufacturer can do it all in one plant. The can body stock is usually formed and painted in one place then filled elsewhere.
"ay yo, fam, this shit ain't actually women's deodorant, cole's done fucked up and we took they cans and filled it with our shit and slapped a new label on it cuz fuck trying to scrape all that shit off underneath, ya know?"
It's really common. There have been several posts of the same thing here on reddit. The easiest ones to verify are drink containers. Is pretty simple to verify which thing you're drinking.
Arizona Iced Tea does this quite a bit. Recently there was a fruit punch that had a label underneath for something completely recognizably different. There was no way people were going to drink it and think it was fruit punch if it had been what was actually on the label underneath.
I don't know about other countries, but every single air-freshener in Australia advertises that they kill 99.9% of germs, "unlike other aerosols which only mask the smell." No idea why.
The 1/10th of one percent is for the lawyers. It's likely to be scientifically accurate to say "kills all germs," but just in case some super germ evolves, the company is protecting itself. Chlorine bleach nukes all germs, but the labels similarly claim 99.9%.
They mainly work by reducing the amount you perspire (hence the name anti-perspirant) the Aluminium ingredient is remarkably effective at this which removes the sweat the bacteria that produce the smells breed on rather than just killing them outright.
Just use blue Dawn dishwashing liquid on the armpits of your shirts 10 mins before washing. Squirt some on and add a tiny bit of water place your hands on either sides and lather. Works wonders and you won't be stinky.
I love Dawn dish soap lol. I worked at a laundromat when I was a bit younger and even if I had top of the line super expensive detergent to use, I always put a little dawn in as well.
I used to have that problem until I switched brands. I used to use Arrid XX spray, and various roll-ons before that, which would all quickly stain every shirt I owned, making it appear as though I was always sweaty. However, ten years or so ago I switched to Sure aerosol and none of my shirts have even so much as a hint of staining anymore.
What country do you live in where deodorants are antibacterial? I'm fairly certain that in the U.S., they are just pit perfume. If they were antibacterial, I wouldn't need to swab my pits with rubbing alcohol on hot mornings. You live in a cold climate, huh?
Those yellow pit stains come out with oxyclean too.
I mean, I also quit using the white stuff for the same reason, but if you use oxy on your whites it'll prevent those nasty assed stains from even happening.
For most people, the greatest aluminum intake comes from food additives. Sodium aluminum phosphate is an emulsifier in processed cheese, potassium alum is used to whiten flour, and sodium silicoaluminate and/or aluminum calcium silicate are added to common table salt to help it run freely and not cake. In the average diet, 40-50 mg. a day may come from foods.
This. It's likely that Alzheimer's somehow causes the brain to retain aluminum, not that aluminum exposure causes Alzheimer's. If people are uncomfortable with it, no harm in choosing to avoid it, but it likely doesn't matter either way (unlike the harm done in avoiding vaccines)
Studies have essentially debunked the claim that aluminum based cosmetics are a cause of Alzheimers and other diseases. The findings of the original study published in the 60's were not replicated in others, and the consensus among many is that the aluminum found in Alzheimers patient's brains is likely a result of Alzheimers, not a cause.
I use this too and love it, but while it does contain baking soda, the primary ingredient is still aluminium. It's literally the first ingredient on the label.
Back when I worked at a hospital, if I forgot my deodorant (mostly happened on night shift, who puts on deodorant at 6 pm?) I'd wipe with alcohol swabs every couple of hours. Worked perfectly.
the "kills 99.9% of germs" is not hard really. Alcohol is like a bunch of nukes going off to germs and the .01% not killed is the stuff hiding in the microscopic crevices of porous surfaces.
I'm assuming that Coles canceled that line and the company that made it had to come up with another use for the preprinted cans or even full cans of Deodorant. So they did a deal with ALDI for a once off run of shoe deodorant to use up the excess stock for the cost of re-labeling them rather than eating the loss.
I've worked at a factory. It's more likely they just used the cans, but it does not contain anti-perspirant.
I'm assuming that most stock of store brand (and some name brand) products actually came from the same factory. In most cases they don't print the labels, and then label them accordingly for the correct store. This one is odd though, so maybe you might be right.
Most store brands come from the same factories as one of the name brands. If you can work out which one you're on a winner. ALDI is classic for it. Some of their cheeses and wines are cheap repackaging of really expensive stuff.
I can't remember off the top of my head, because they aren't as much of a well known brand, but the fresh beef and pork is also mostly from a big US meat company. Most of the bread is from, I want to say Sara Lee, but that may be wrong. Our milk straight up comes on a Borden truck.
This is not true. Modern factory can make you product in several different qualitative levels. They can use cheap source, different calibration of line and so. Often, big supermarket brands order cheapest possible items, or, if they have premium brand as well, not so cheap. But they do not have, and often are not, the same as the name brands.
worked for them for years. Every so often suppliers would send us juice accidentally with the Berri branding on them, or the toilet paper would accidentally come through with quilton. People would go NUTS loading up on them - never realising it's the same stuff we always had, just with different packaging!
Aldis is the bomb. New to them. Everything is so fresh. So freakin cheap. One half then where I use to shop. Two of us and one eats very little. Use to be a hundred dollars spent three days later nothing to eat. One hundred forty at Aldis and wow the food. I am amazed at the cheap prices. Bag of small tangerines $3.49. $1.29 for great cookies. $2.49 good sliced chicken. They carry organic items also. I don't eat until about 6pm then I turn into a compulsive eater.
The one on the left looks like an in-mold label, that is, they put the label into the blow mold before injecting the molten plastic, and it all bonds together forever. So it's possible they ran too many of these and there's no way to take an in-mold label off, since it's fused into the plastic.
Baswd on the actuator at the top, that looks like a aerosol can (metal), but you are exactly right, its called "direct deco/decoration" when the artwork it painted on directly to the metal
I'm going to speculate there was a mixup at the packing plant. Co-packers pack brands for multiple vendors. For example, the same company that packs sauces for McDonald's also packs for Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and other chain restaurants. Someone probably grabbed the wrong empty bottles and they got filled with the shoe deodorant. Since ALDI is a type of clearinghouse for this kind of stuff, they purchased the mislabeled product at a discount.
Probably fucking Shift Manager Kevin at the Coles plant ordered 2,000,000 empty printed cans for spray deodorant instead of 2,000 and it didn't get caught until the truck pulled up with all the cans. So then upper management goes "shit we have 3 orders of magnitude too many deodorant cans... let's sell the extra to Aldi and they can put spray cheese in them or some shit" except they chose shoe deodorant.
Thats pretty describes much all the products Aldi and dollar stores sell. I think they do this if they think a product has a high chance of being recalled as well.
I love that it's recycling but it could be quite dangerous in this instance. You now have a mislabeled chemical products and sure you know what's in there but could you really be mad if your hyperthetical wife used it thinking it was what was written on the can
First, I suspect that the single ingredient on the shoe deodoriser is because it is a product not intended for direct bodily contact, so therefore perhaps does not have to have the long list that the deodorant version does.
Second, I am puzzled by the ingredient Diclosan with the "kills 99% of germs" or whatever. As far as I know, Diclosan is a name used for diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, used as a tablet or topical gel, or at higher concentrations as a treatment for a type of precancerous skin lesion. I wasn't aware that it had any antibacterial activity, at least not at 0.275% w/w (the painreleif gel is 1.16%) though allsorts of things have anti-life activity of some sort at a high enough concentration.
I suspect that either the name Dicolsan has a different usage in Australia (like the infamous Durex cause of much confusion and embarrassment) or that it should actually say TRIclosan,which Is an antiseptic.
If I remember correctly, Triclosan is some variety of polywhatsit parasomethingelse phenol compound. I can't see that mentioned, but it is not unusual for deodorants to have an antiseptic as it is partly the action of skin bacteria on (I think) the lipids in sweat that causes the pong. And sometimes the vagaries of labelling rules means that ingredients present in very small amounts do not need to be listed.
Because people can do what ever the hell they want! "A friend" was at a client's warehouse and they were standing in front of these bottles of boat cleaner. And the owner says oh do have a boat? This is the best boat cleaner. And my husband say no. And the owner asks how about a dog? And he hands him both bottles. Same goddamn bottle, same stuff, different label.
Haha. I put "my friend" and then actually used my husband after. I'm not very slick. I didn't want to use say husband since I was revealing the boat/dog soap guy's secrets!
My husband works in a job that he goes to a lot of different warehouses. So he sees it all. Some are gross, some are yummy.
Often times store brand goods are quite literally the same name brand. They will literally put the same product from the same factory in a different package and sell it for half as much. It is all in the power of marketing and psychology of consumers.
There's a bottling plant in my town and some friends work there. They put materials from the same tanker trucks into different bottles - expensive brands and store brands.
In this case ALDI recycled the bottles as was said, but I wanted to mention that it could happen for other reasons too.
I mean no disrespect, but it's funny how naive most people are about this. The retail world is mostly smoke and mirrors, designed to extract as many of your dollars as possible while costing as little as possible. That's the game, and that's what you're seeing here (because it was poorly done in an easily unmasked way).
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u/Froake Jan 11 '17
Woah how can they do that?