Consumer Council released its latest specific price survey on shampoos and shower gels. Price decreases were recorded for many brands of shampoo sold at different retail outlets and prices of shower gels remained stable.

Consumer Council collected prices of 10 brands of shampoo and shower gel from 32 retail outlets (including supermarkets and drugstores) on 10th January and two new brands have been added to the current survey.

In comparison with November’s survey, prices of the surveyed shampoos and shower gels remained stable, 3 shampoo brands recorded minimal to over 10 percent of price decreases in many retail outlets. Prices of ‘Rejoice Shampoo/1000ml’ had been decreased by 3 to 13 percent since last surveyed.

For shampoo, ‘Dove damage Therapy intensive Repair Shampoo/700ml’, which was sold at $39.5 to $59.9, recorded the greatest price difference of over 51 percent. Meanwhile, shower gel prices remained stable and a general price discrepancy of around 20 to 30 percent was recorded for the same brand sold at different outlets. ‘LUX Body Wash/1L’, which was newly added to the survey and sold at $26.3 to $44.0, recorded the greatest price difference of 67.3 percent among all surveyed shower gels.

The Council indicates that selling prices of the same product are found to vary in different branches under the same supermarket chain stores. Consumers are advised to check with the data provided by the Council on its website (www.consumer.gov.mo) and its ‘Supermarket price information platform’ iPhone and Android apps. For enquiry, please call 8988 9315.