My Mom, Elizabeth Warren, And Me

       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,

...and her jar of Ponds cold cream.

     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.

      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, 

...and here I am, two years younger than she, with my face a field of wrinkles and age spots.

     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