Credit: Juliette Borda
Is that expensive jar of skin cream on my dresser safe to use?
The following article appears in the March/April 2007 issue of Technology Review.
There's a lovely jar of night cream that's been sitting on my dresser for a month. According to the salesperson who spent a half-hour on the phone with me extolling its virtues, the cream will dig up the gunk that's clogging my pores, soak up excess oil, and "teach" my cells to make less of it.
Sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Too bad I'm too scared to use it.
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