What's the silliest 'Man' product you've ever seen?

[Sayyouwill]

I'm soooo sick of seeing really normal things that need to have a 'man twist' on them.
DH just picked up a bottle of 'men's shower gel' and I was like WTF?! Why is it 'mens'? Why do they need their own shower gel? Is their general body grime different than women's? Why do we need to make things 'manly'? AIBU to be incredibly frustrated by this?

MAN CRISPS.

Men need their own products because if they're not man products they're girly which is the worst thing a MAN could be.

Men's shower gel is laced with nails and packaged in barbed wire because men are MEN.

Men's products do have a different smell. If I run out of my own deodorant or shower gel and have to use DH's, I do dislike the smell and feel I smell conspicuously 'manly'. Of course you could say we shouldn't have reached a point where there are 'feminine' and 'masculine' smells, but there are.

But there are some products that are probably the same product in different packaging. Moisturiser 'for men'. Razors 'for ladies'.

The ridiculous thing is though that as much as I hate them and recognise them, these stereotypes do get inside you. I would feel weird using or buying a black razor. I feel like the lighter pink or blue Venus-type razors are the ones 'for me' even though they're the exact same thing.

And why the hell are mens slippers so course and scratchy compared to womens ones (my DH cannot find make slippers that are soft like most womans appently?)

Somewhat pissed off that Red 5 has become 'Menkind'. I assume then that now it's aimed at Men I need to go elsewhere to buy my random geekery tat.

Man chocolate (Yorkie bars)

I get what you're saying OP but welcome to the world of marketing/ branding.

I was bought 'tools for women' as a gift once. It's pink tool kit. The actual tools are pink. It was £5 more expensive than the 'standard' tool kit (presumably because of the extra effort of coating the whole thing in pink) but just why?! Can't I use a red screwdriver? Does my vagina get in the way?

I accidentally picked up a bottle of 'men's' Radox bubble bath. It smelt rather lovely in the shop, I didn't notice it was 'men's' until I was in the bath.

You know, I had a mini panic thinking I was going to grow some balls and start calling myself Clive. Luckily, I still have my ample breasts.

Does the idea of a husband count as a product?

some of it is silly, but there are differences in men's bodies (apart from the obvious ones). Their skin is thicker and has more collagen than a women's. Likewise, due to testosterone levels, their hair is thicker. Presumably products aimed at men for use on their hair and skin would have a different formulation?

I'm pretty sure my teenage boys wouldn't want to walk round smelling of my pomegranate & rose body wash and I'm absolutely never going to want to use their Lynx 🤣

We do all use a mixture of male/female stuff as well though alongside our own smellies - there's room for all imo

probably this thing

www.amazon.co.uk/Lynx-Manwasher-Shower-Tool/dp/B00VZUOTBA/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1506767001&sr=8-2&keywords=lynx+manwasher&tag=mumsnetforum-21

I mean wtf?

Aw, gotspoiler, I was going to post that! It's so daft though, get a blue flannel or shower scrunchie for half the price!

Completely get where you're coming from, majority of things packaged 'for men' are the exact bloody same as women's. My DH is a manager at Superdrug and had someone complaining to him the other day that the men's orange bic disposable razors were almost a pound cheaper than ladies pink bic disposable razors. It's the price difference that pisses me off too.

That "man washer" actually looks quite good - exfoliating scrubber on one side and shower pouf on the other. I might get one

Man tissues! Because if he blows his nose on regular girlie tissues his dick will fall off and he'll start growing breasts.

The only problem is once you've washed with it you smell of sweat and toil because men can't smell of roses.

NoLoveofMine

My local health food store sells "Men's tea" and "Women's tea".

Naturally, the Women's tea is in a nice pink box- just to be clear that it is NOT FOR MEN!

I guess you have to stir the Men's tea with your penis...

I use men's deodorant because I think it works better than women's. I have been sucked in by marketing from both sides - men's stuff is for real sweat, women's is for making my armpits soft. I don't mind the smell actually.

The smell of the deodorant! Not my sweat!

Well men are different

Man washing up gloves
So like regular washing up gloves but black and FOR MEN.

You know, I had a mini panic thinking I was going to grow some balls and start calling myself Clive

Im dying to start a thread in baby names

Not much to contribute except that I think Yorkies are rank. Men are welcome to them.

L'Oreal used to do an anti-dandruff shampoo. It came in a navy and orange bottle. It was amazing.

They rebranded the range several years ago, and this shampoo disappeared. I was a bit gutted as I have a stroppy scalp and that one was the only off the shelf shampoo that worked.

Randomly the supermarket rearranged the shampoos one day, and I 'found' my shampoo. Repackaged, renamed, and reclassified 'for men'.

I wrote to L'Oreal and asked when my free set of bollocks would be arriving. Didn't get a reply. Shampoo is still good though, even though it's now in a black and orange bottle. Thankfully I didn't need to the bollocks or penis to work out the lid.