I can’t, in all honesty, say I’ve tried every skin creme known to woman. I (fairly) arbitrarily draw the line at $95.00 per product, and even on the rare occasion when I’ve spent that much (I think twice. Okay, no more than twelve.) I’ve felt indulgent and wasteful. Plus I’ve got a veritable treasure trove of abandoned cosmetics, booty I can guarantee you no self-respecting pirate is ploughing the oceans wide (or whatever they do on the high seas) to lay claim to.
Then there’s the fact that I’ve increasingly limited myself to organic products, the theory being that there is probably a Malcolm Gladwell-kind of tipping point where toxins and our bodies are concerned, and accumulating them past half a century might well be pushing the proverbial (and metaphor-mixing) envelope.
But the real reason I don’t spend that money? The fact is, no mere face cream ever really makes a difference, or at least the kind of difference that would justify spending more than $20.00 a pop. No matter what cosmetic I use, the lines, and wrinkles, and assorted crow’s feet mostly just keep on truckin’.
As, thankfully, do I.
So where do we find something effective, inexpensive, and organic? Burt’s Bees Naturally Ageless Day Lotion does it for me. As far as I can tell it contains no ingredient that is directly implicated in contaminating the delicate ecosystem that is my saging body (no, I did NOT leave out a “g” there), and the ingredient that is in it – the one that seems to instantly tighten my face, gently but firmly – is, hands down, more effective than any other of the many products I’ve thrown good money away on.
Plus, it’s available just about anywhere. You can even buy it where you do your grocery shopping (assuming, that is, you don’t shop at the corner gas station for your culinary needs). Sure, it’s $25.00 per 2 oz. bottle, but (as our pirate pals might say) what price booty?