Quite a few different types, both purely decorative and toiletries.
As I work for a contract manufacturer, we make everything from the big names to cheap rubbish; the complexity of the formulations and the difference in quality is similarly variable, but the difference in manufacturing cost is nowhere near as great as the difference in retail price.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 23:20, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I begrudge paying money
for cosmetics in general. But I generally find the variation in certain products enough to justify the extra money
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 23:28, Reply)

As with everything, the best performance/price balance is somewhere in the middle.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 23:41, Reply)