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A bottle of expensive water and oil whispering that your face deserves better.
means A cosmetic cream or lotion applied to the skin to add or seal in water and prevent dryness.
from Built straight from English: "moisture" plus the verb-making suffix "-ize" (yielding "moisturize," to make moist) and the agent ending "-er" — the thing that does the moisturizing. "Moisture" itself traces back through Old French "moiste" to a Latin source, likely "mucidus" (moldy, slimy) tangled up with "musteus" (fresh, like new wine). The word "moisturizer" is a modern product-marketing coinage of the 20th century, born when the beauty industry needed a noun for the bottle.
- main ingredient
- Usually water, the cheapest thing on Earth
- key trick
- Mostly traps moisture you already have
- ancient version
- Cleopatra reportedly used donkey milk baths
- price spread
- Same science, 100x markup for fancy jars
- the catch
- Skin makes its own oil for free
cetaphil moisturizing cream — dermatologist-recommended product used by millions, launched 1947