In our conversation we suddenly come to the topic of SK-II, renowned for keeping old faces well-maintained as would occur to shop-houses with five-foot ways in Singapore’s Chinatown. It dawns on us that we do not know what SK-II represents.
Some speculation that we come up with:
‘Sammi makes thousands’ – where K represents the thousand range; Sammi Cheng has been long-time spokesperson for the brand.
‘Slow Koach’ – retarding the process of aging in proportion to age
‘Skin Kare’
‘SaKe’ – because the company website, which explains that sake is part of the maintenance process
Eventually we give up and decide to look at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK-II), which gives us what ‘SK-II’ really means. It stands for: ‘Secret Key to Crystal Clear Skin’ – when re-written it will be ‘SK-II-CCS’. But perhaps nobody can remember the order for the description of ‘skin’ and perhaps it would be a gamble (hence the brand is owned by Proctor and Gamble) for someone to come out with really good skin as a result of using SK-II products. So, perhaps in this light, they decided to shorten it to SK-II.
Curiously such vital information does not appear on the official website.
