You seem to assume they didn't consider it
Perhaps there is no counter acting agent and they're not as eager as Americans to sell snake oil
Perhaps they decided "existing scented lotions suffice and that market is already packed with options"
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Shinichiro Haze Send email to [email protected] ∙ Yoko Gozu ∙ Shoji Nakamura ∙ … ∙ Kiyohito Sawano† ∙ Hideaki Ohta† ∙ Kazuo Yamazaki† Affiliations & Notes 1 Shiseido Co. Ltd., Product Development Center, Yokohama, Japan * Shiseido Co. Ltd., Basic Research Center, Yokohama, Japan † Takasago International Corporation, Central Research Laboratory, Hiratsuka, Japan
You'd think Shiseido would've put this on the front burner what with Japan's aging population but no sign of a product — lotion/spray etc. — after 25 years!