Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 15, 1999
Transcript:
Mom: $50...$28...$35..Who do they think is going to buy all this junk?? Cathy: My mother says that smearing vaseline on my face at night will accomplish the exact same thing as all your overpriced skin care products. Saleswoman: Of course she does. Your mother is jealous of your youth and resentful of the superior nurturing power of a $20 billion cosmetics industry. See? We can give you light-diffusing particles..free radical neutralizers..gamma-orizanol..tritisol....silicon-encapsulating novaspheres..antioxidants and hydration...clinically proven to provide a complete age-defying, time smoothing, line-minimizing skin renewal system! In short, will you believe a total stranger in a little white coating holding a $45 bottle of alpha hydroxy acids...or will you believe the woman you've known all your life who looks exactly like you except she has more wrinkles and a jar of vaseline in her purse?? Cathy: Sorry, Mom. Mom: If sunshine is the number one cause of premature aging, daughter are the number two.