Morale-Building
DON’T know whether the sale of cosmetics will suffer a sudden decline or the bottle-collection a corresponding boom as a result of the recent A.C.E. talk "More About Cosmetics." But certainly its delicate debunking of cosmetic preparations must have some effect, even if it only leads one to look twice at one’s cold cream jar to see if it has a false bottom. In any case, My Lady’s disillusionment is now complete. She has had the magical preparations which are to bring her beauty-at a priceruthlessly analysed into sheep’s grease and chemical acid. She has been frankly informed that the best thing for "the
skin he loves to touch" is plain soap and water; nothing more. She has been warned that the skin foods, vitamin creams, and what-have-yous that she would fain spend money on (if she had it) are all impostors. Hard facts can go no further. But as it is, My. Lady might be prepared to issue forth ag a shining example to her friends, if i were not for one thing. She finds tha price per jar or bottle a low enough one to pay for the amount of readily+ applied morale it contains,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 8
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198Morale-Building New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 8
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