Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/16/louis-vuitton-converting-perfu.html
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This is good news and setting an example for others to follow.
Wash. Wash. Wash your hands!
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In related news, luxury goods manufacturer Tyler Durden announced that his company will begin donating Fight Club soap to help fight the epidemic.
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I’m washing my hands right now.
@Brainspore You forgot the first rule of “Fight Club”.
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If idiots wouldn’t be hoarding and gouging it, this wouldn’t be a problem at all. The active ingredient in sanitizer is isopropyl, which is 90% used for industrial uses. The supply of it is effectively unlimited.
Good on LVMH for doing this. Shame on the idiots who tried to get rich by playing the market in medical supplies.
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Will they do limited editions ?
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(First two rules, actually)
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My wife went to a local grow shop where she gets all of her tomato/pepper seed starter stuff (she already has trays of seedlings ready to go) and brought home 3 huge bottles of 99.9% isopropyl. Glycerin from CVS. Here’s to hoping she doesn’t burn the house down in the name of cleanliness.
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Obligatory “Garnier Laboratoire” reference:
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Well played! (And welcome!)
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Am I mistaken, or wasn’t there a concern not that long ago that the increased use of things like hand sanitizers and antibiotic soaps would lead to superbugs?
If not, fantastic. Good on them.
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The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
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Cool. Even cooler would be letting their retail employees stay home.
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Yet Bernard Arnault is known to do everything to not pay his taxes contributing to the underfunding of the public hospital.
The French Wikipedia article have a full section about all the way he found to avoid taxation.
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So, which billionaire donors are having difficulty parting with their checks? LVMH chief officer Bernard Arnault—who was ranked #4 on Forbes’ “Billionaire’s List” last year and is estimated to be the richest man in France—promised £200 million ($224 million)… …But so far, none of that promised money has materialized.
There does seem to have been some embarrassment following this (donations to Notre Dame restoration announcement that some “donors” had not actually ponied up) and a smaller amount did appear, I read the sanitiser article yesterday and wondered when or if the LV sanitiser would actually put in an appearance.
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Close to 20 years of lurking, about time I posted!
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Welcome aboard above deck, Comrade.
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I think it’s the hand sanitizers with Triclosan that are the problem with viruses developing resistance to it. Hand sanitizers with alcohol disrupt the outer layer of of virus itself. But I am no scientist…
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