11 Times "Health Guru" Celebrities Were Hilariously Wrong About Science
2. Gwyneth Paltrow And The Outrageously Expensive Soap
Like Gillian McKeith, Gwyneth Paltrow comes out with woo-bombs so frequently, that she probably deserves her own article.
Whether it's telling women that they have no excuse not to get in shape after having a baby (despite, herself, employing a nanny, cook, personal trainer and housekeeper to ease that particular strain), or recommending that the perfect way to end a fight with your spouse is to give him a blow job (I guess you can't keep yelling if your mouth is full), Gwynnie is full of pearls of batsh*t wisdom.
Like a number of celebrity health gurus, Paltrow has discovered that, by throwing around words like "toxins", "cleanse" and "give me your money", she can make a pretty penny selling glorified hand soap.
A "Purifying Cleansing Gel" from Paltrow's appealingly named website, Goop, will set you back a cool $50, and the exfoliating cleansing gel runs to an eye-watering $95. For that price, I would want it to do my laundry and let the cat out too.
If you were to follow the blog on the admittedly pretty website, you would spend pretty much every hour god sends on some kind of detox, whether that's a post-Christmas detox, pre-holiday cleanse or the recommended Clean Programme - 21 days of which will set you back $425, not including the rare and expensive ingredients that you need to include in your meal plan.
Considering that only thing that can really effectively detoxify your system is good, old fashioned water, that's one hell of a mark-up.