~~ A beauty therapist once told me that being kind to your body has great benefit on your Karma and therefore ultimately your skin tone and elasticity. By eating well. Adding plenty fresh vegetables and young scrummy salad leaves washed down with gallons of chilled mineral water to your diet, all goes to help preserve that youthful complexion, that many bad people have lost by eating greasy, high calorific convenience food and drinking much to much alcohol. Unfortunately she told me this 20 years after I should have started doing it.
~~ I do eat relatively well, I generally eat fruit every day and I love salad, especially the M & S pre-packaged stuff with black olives, Feta Cheese and Balsamic Dressing. However that was not always the way. I was brought up on a typical Scottish diet of Mince and tatties, Scotch Pies, Stews, Cakes, Pop, sweets, Medium Hard fat Cheese and as many excuses to Fry Chips in beef dripping as was humanly possible. Now being that the early diet was not particularly great, I must add to this a couple of other facts…
1: My Dentist is amazed that I still have all of my own teeth.
2. My Father thought sun protection was mixing Vinegar with Olive Oil and slapping it all over everyone. Lets just say that a Rhino has smoother skin than he does and his kids became regulars at the Bangour Burns Unit.
~~ Back to the point: I started using moisturisers about 8 years ago, I felt that my face was basically flaking away, sounds horrible but it was true, drinking 2 litres of water was unheard of, 2 litres of liquid was heard of, but not the stuff I drunk. It did not help the skin, neither did it help you to walk and talk, well not at the same time anyway.
~~ Recently, about 3 months ago, my wife and I decided that the stuff we were using was pretty poor and we went on our quest to find something that suited us both. We were looking for a wonder treatment, something that would knock years of our faces, soften those shadows, lessen those lines and firm that skin. Did we find it, hell no, it would take about 10 grand and a team of cosmetic surgeons to complete that task but we did happen across ‘Oil of Olay Total effects’.
~~ This product is ridiculously expensive at £18 plus but its claims to reduce the 7 signs of ageing are slightly on the ball, sometimes you think you see an improvement, sometimes you don’t. It is more than likely that you had a quiet weekend with lots of sleep and the kids where away at their Granddad’s!
However their material does say that their Moisturiser helps reduce lines and wrinkles, skin texture, skin tone, skin dullness, pores, blotches and age spots and hydrates dry skin. Does it? Maybe a bit. I really don’t know but I am an old roughneck whose skin does not flake anymore, eughhh!
~~ Honestly: It ‘s a light cream that moisturises really well, when you put it on you feel its freshness, it’s a bit like splashing cold water on your face after a shave, you know what I mean ladies. It goes on and is absorbed really easily. It does seem to do the trick, as my new picture soon to be published on Ciao will testify, where has that Brad Pitt “Hello” interview gone?
If you want to try something new, something upmarket, give it a shot, you may be pleasantly surprised or you may just lose the best part of £20 squid!
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I have just bought this moisturiser, two for twenty quid from Savers, bargain!!! I think it's fantastic, like polyfilling over the cracks. People have noticed something different about me. I thought your op was hilarious. Glad my Dad beleived in suncream and not vinegar and oil!!
mr-zeeman 21.04.2003 17:06
Crumbs ... you're a chappie! I'm currently using the even more ridiculously expensive Olay "intensive restoration treatment". (My face is obviously more creased than yours or your Mrs's ... plus I'm a lot more gullible.) Results with this, appear to be the same as with the stuff you've tried. I'm 53, and I still have 53-year-old-looking skin. But I'm lighter in the purse department. Cheers, Paula (Heck no ... mr zeeman ISN'T a chappie!)
Jun 12th, 2002
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