natural product is far to expensive. plus you only need the essence of the natural product to produce a certain drug. for example you just need the vitamin C in an orange to make a vitamin C supplement not the whole orange. The natural route is just a reaction to the perceived "fakeness" in the products on sale now. As a result we are seeing more [products with so called "natural" ingredients in them like shampoo and facial wash. I think this is just a marketing ploy. You and i know that there are no "natural extracts" and "honey" inside the shampoo. they just have the chemical equivalent of it in the ingredient. this is clearly a sham.

i just dont see why there is a mania for naturalness. Its chemically synthesized vitamin C and less effective than the ones squished from an orange? Chemically and medically speaking its a big no.

Let me share you a story.

Back in the days armies have "pissing vats" where pee are collected so the ammonia in them can then be turned into a paste. This is then used to make explosions. They assigned a battalion just to produce steady amount of urines to sustain the production of dynamite. Over time Charles Haber found a new, cleaner and cheaper way to produce ammonia.

is the chemically produced ammonia better than piss ammonia? not chemically but it sure it more economical than waiting for urine to evaporate and turned into paste. Technology is awesome.

hardly surprising considering that we only explored less that 20% of the know sea!