Saturday, June 21, 2014

Melon and beauty

Stuck in bed many days surviving chemotherapy, I am bombarded with ads for beauty, weight loss, medical issues, pharmaceuticals, law suits over all of the above.  It is simply endless.  One consistent add is for Dr. Shabaugh's Meaningful Beauty with Cindy Crawford and other celebrities pitching for this melon-based formula.  It looks like a typical American cantaloupe but the advertisements tell us its special and from the Luberon.  But what they are showing is a typical Cavaillon melon, which is a local specialty and has destroyed any desire in me to eat cantaloupe, but I can't say it has done anything for my skin.  Maybe I should buy some Cavaillon melon, stick it in a blender, press, blend, then schmeer it on my skin?  For how long?  Should it have the skin in it?  Just the insides?  Include the seeds?  Perhaps this is the mystery of it.  But for this year, I think I'll pass on it and let Cindy Crawford use it and sell it.

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