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- Apr 2, 2016
I’d like to know why she always refers to the act of applying lotion as “creaming.” I have never heard a North American woman under the age of 80 refer to using lotion as creaming.And then there's this complaint which never fails to give me the heebie-jeebies: "And after my shower, I have to cream my body again."
I am a fan of vintage housekeeping and beauty books and magazines, and even when women referred to using lotion or moisturizer as “creaming” they were often referring to two specific body parts - hands and face. Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth ”creamed” their hands and wore mittens to keep their hands from betraying their age, for example. Women were urged to use cold cream to remove makeup because it was believed exposing the facial skin to water dried and aged it, and that process of makeup removal was “creaming” the face. Outside of those very specific references, women did not call moisturizing “creaming.”
Anyone born after 1970 sees “creaming” body parts through a vulgar sexual lens. Sexually aroused women were said to be “creaming” their panties. I have to think that she is deliberately trying to be sexually provocative when really all she is doing is invoking images of soiled underpants and maybe soured milk.
Related: if Chantal lost half her body weight, she’d still be morbidly obese but showering and “creaming” would be far easier and barely worth a complaint. For all her insistence that she’s a Foodie BEAUTY she sure despises the routines that keep her skin and hair clean and soft. She’s nearing the stage where even the minor work she puts into her personal cleanliness will be too strenuous and exhausting to bother with.
