Talk:Olay

Criticism

Olay has been criticized widely for feature digitally Manipulated and edited models in their commercials to make them look younger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.214.227 (talk) 04:40, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Quotation mark usage

"....edited mercilessly?" You call yourself an encyclopedia. Then you should know that the quotation marks (") belong AFTER a comma, not before it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.40.112.205 (talk) 00:33, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

This is actually a style choice. See Quotation_mark#Punctuation. 75.36.150.121 (talk) 01:52, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

If there was not a comma in what you are quoting, I feel that including a comma inside the quotation marks is misleading, regardless of what elementary school teachers might say is the correct 2001:4898:A800:1012:EC8A:50DB:851B:CED8 (talk) 21:52, 15 November 2022 (UTC).

Name

Either Oil of Ulay (GB) or Oil of Olaz (Continent). Get it clear!

From the USA, I had always known the product under its original South African name, Oil of Olay, but when I moved to Germany in the 1990s I encountered the product under the name Oil of Olaz. I wrote an email to the company, asking why the difference in name. The response informed me that they had different names in different countries, and that Olaz was a "translation" of Olay. I was skeptical of the chaaracterization of the word as a "translation," so I replied to the email saying I had no idea "Olay" was an actual word that could be translated. I asked what it meant. I never received a response. It amazes me that decades later Wikipedia editors could get to the bottom of the name differences, but that a person at the company responsible for customer enquiries was unable to do the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cospelero (talk • contribs) 20:01, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Brand history

Article needs some work on the brand history. Products are still sold as Olaz in Germany, for example. Leeannedy 22:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

And the lubricant is made up. Jan 1985 was before the P&G purchase of Richardson Vicks had closed. I shall Edit this weekend. Obina

What's in it?

Does anyone know what's actually in Olay, from a chemical perspective? Is the formulation publically known? -- Karada 00:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• Yes The CTFA ingredient name (or INCI name in some countries) on the box gives all the ingredients in descending order of concentration. Same for all cosmetic products.Obina 00:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Name related to Lanolin?

• What is the reference to the name 'oil of booty' being related to ass? Obina 21:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Just found a new link - has a different version of the history - some facts in this are clearly not true - (e.g Ulay being the first name) but is interesting differences mentioned.

http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=4

Here's another source that gives the original name as "Oil of Ulay": http://www.word-detective.com/072104.html - If it really was "Oil of Olay", I wonder how these sources have got it wrong? 66.46.13.221 20:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Obina 22:24, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit from Jayfour

I've reverting edits from Jayfour. While some may be true, some is not correct and with no sources it is difficult to fix. Please provide sources. Launch in USA was 1970, so comments on USA marketing do not apply to history 1949 to 1970.Obina 20:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Calgon Soap

Back in the 60s Calgon Soap used the slogan "Love the skin you're in" ... see . Is this a rip off from Olay or what??? მშვიდობა 04:46, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

so shut up!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.1.103 (talk) 16:01, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Name of Lanolin

Well, it is true, He did come up with oil of Olay from tossing the letters in lanolin around. With regards to reference for this, well, im his grandson, and have a copy of his autobiography which for legal reasons will only be published on his death.

How on earth do you get from LANOLIN to OIL OF OLAY?! There's really not many letters in common and more or less no phonetic resemblance. Is there any published source to confirm this unconvincing idea? If it can't be sourced, the assertion should be deleted here and at lanolin. Flapdragon 15:56, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

It really did used to be called Oil of Ulay as well... I remember the TV adverts and the name changing.

Military use

http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=4 This link is absolute incorrect. There was never any military use intended. Graham did not do any marketing, Dinah Wulff was Grahams personal secretary, she had nothing to do with advertising as that was jack Lowe's dept. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DevlinNossiter (talk • contribs) 07:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC).

Animal Testing

Maybe this article should mention how Olay tests their products on animals.

(See PETA's shopping guide for caring consumers... http://www.caringconsumer.com/resources_companies.asp )

Olay is on the "Companies That Do Test On Animals" list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.160.186.120 (talk) 02:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Written like advertising?

The opening paragraph states that the brand is a market leader, which frankly is ridiculous, and moreover the overall tone of the article suggests that it needs to be completely rewritten. MortenDahl (talk) 20:09, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

"except for Japan"... yes, as well as for example Germany, on third place with a market share of 4.4%... -- megA (talk) 21:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)