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Skin care and cosmetics: cosmetic myths
SKIN CARE AND COSMETICS: COSMETIC MYTHS
The history of cosmetics dates back to antiquity. Creams for soothing the skin, removing superfluous hair, banishing wrinkles, preventing baldness and more, are described in Egyptian parchments written more than 3000 years ago. The word 'cosmetic' is itself derived from the Greek kosmetikos, to adorn.
The use of cosmetics is universal and prodigious, and the number used increases every year. Increasingly men too are being attracted by subtle advertisements suggesting means of improving their appearance—lured perhaps by the implied promises of sexual and material rewards.
People have been looking for the fountain of youth since time immemorial, and the emphasis on youth has never been greater than in today's leisure and youth oriented society. Because ageing causes such visible changes in the skin, many men and women would like to delay or reverse these changes. Although many products on the market claim to do just this, unfortunately none has ever lived up to its claims. Some of these so-called rejuvenating creams contain Allantoin, Plankton and embryo or placental extracts. The particles of these extracts are too large to penetrate the skin, and so can have no effect on the skin. Others contain unibiogen' from the butterfly cocoon. This is advertised as a 'skin food or fertilizer which jolts tired cells back into their plump youthful state'. Aloe Vera, the juice of the aloe plant leaf which contains 99-5 per cent water and 0,5 per cent of various amino acids and carbohydrate, is also touted as a rejuvenating cream. As already mentioned, none of these appear to have the kind of effect that would iend any support to their therapeutic claims. Mink and turtle oil, marketed as superior to other oils in cosmetic preparations, owe their dubious reputations respectively to the expense and beauty of mink pelts and the longevity of the turtle.

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