Professional vs OTC

Ok. I am totally confused. And I've been trying to straighten this out in my mind. Professional vs OTC?

If professional products are suppose to have more active or maximum amount of active ingredients and only sold by professional

1. How do I know what they are saying is true. Any company can say they are a professional skin care or nakeup line and have no more active ingredients than an OTC.

2. If you are a professional skin care line with the maximum active ingredients, why are you now selling OTC? Are the active ingredients no longer at the maximum amounts or was the company just BSing us in the first place.

I hope this makes sense. I want to invest in a skin care line where the active ingredients are at the maximum amount allowed. Whether PL or not. I would like to do PL, but I'm confused

I posted this also in Facebook groups

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Permalink Reply by Vanessa Barrientez on January 6, 2016 at 7:03am

So, there is really no difference between professional vs OTC. But we tell our clients to purchase only professional products. Why? If they can get something from Walmart, Ulta, Sephora that does the same thing?

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Permalink Reply by Regina on January 7, 2016 at 11:26am

Seems that way Vanessa....maybe you can ask the lines you have in mind directly what there differences are. Aside from EWG you can refer to case studies. Why do we tell our clients to buy professional products well because it is revenue for most and perhaps some pro retail are formulated differently then what's on the mass market but it doesn't mean it doesn't have a comparable OTC out there with a similar formulation. Hope this helps. Marty was really dead spot on.