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My Mom, Elizabeth Warren, And Me

1/22/2020

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       What do my mom and Elizabeth Warren have in common? Can you tell from the above photos?
       In case you can't, the answer is great skin for their age. Elizabeth Warren is 70. My mom is pushing 100.
        Oh, my mom has a few wrinkles. But only a few. And again, she is ninety-nine and seven-twelfths.
        The thing is, my mom has always had beautiful skin - as apparently Elizabeth Warren has - with nary a visible bump or pore. And I don't know about Elizabeth Warren, but as far as I know my mother has never consulted a dermatologist, and the only skin care products she ever availed herself of were her bar of Ivory soap, 
as I recall it looking in my youth,
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​...and her jar of Ponds cold cream.
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     My mother swore by washing her face morning and night with Ivory soap then slathering on the Ponds, and she preached this beauty regimen to anyone who'd listen, which wasn't me. 
      "All you need is soap and water and Ponds," my mother preached to me from my bad-skinned teen-aged years on through my not-great skinned adult years.
       However I, heedless youngster that I was, had less than zero interest in being caught dead using what I considered to be my mother's greasy old lady goop from the 1930's.

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      So, unlike my mother, I never used Ponds, and she gave up trying to convert me decades ago.
      Fast forward to last week when I was reading the Life & Arts section of the Columbus Dispatch and came across an article on an interview Elizabeth Warren did with Cosmopolitan magazine in which she revealed that the secret to her beautiful skin is...Pond's cold cream morning and night!  Exclusively. Meaning she uses Ponds and only Ponds on her face. No soap. Elizabeth warren doesn't wash her face. Ever. Ponds in the morning and Ponds in the night. That's it.
      Which sounds to me like dermatological blasphemy and felonious face abuse.

    And yet, there she is, with a face as smooth and dewy as a baby's elbow, 
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​...and here I am, two years younger than she, with my face a field of wrinkles and age spots.
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     A couple of years ago I saw a dermatologist for a suspicious-looking mole.  She pronounced the mole as nothing, but suggested that I try a .5 ounce jar of $75  cream to help with all the fine lines crisscrossing my sexagenarian punim.
     
Back when I was young a large jar of Ponds cost about a dollar. Today a 6.5 oz jar costs $4.99.
      I really should have listened to my mother.

       Reference:
    
https://www.dispatch.com/entertainment/20200117/would-elizabeth-warrens-skin-care-regimen-work-for-you

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Sherrill Redmon
1/27/2020 05:02:29 am

Hi there, Patti! Someone tipped me about that generous piece you posted 3 years ago and I read it with delight. So pleased to touch base again via your entertaining blog after so many years. AND my mother had smooth and pretty skin until her death at 94 and 11/12s, as you would put it. She swore by Ponds, too. I reacted the way you did. . . ewww and never! Cheers to you and your mom and lovely family.

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Patti
1/27/2020 10:39:21 am

Whoa! Sherrill! How wonderful to hear from you! I'm thrilled! I hope you are doing well and happy. since this post on Ponds I'm amazed at how many women of our generation have told me that their mothers used Ponds, had wonderful skin, and that they wanted nothing to do with Ponds when they were young! I wonder if Ponds will now enjoy Renaissance thanks to Elizabeth Warren! Thanks so much for writing, Sherrill - and thank you for all the good work you've done for the cause of justice and enlightenment in women's history..

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