Thursday, April 15, 2010

If You Ever Feel Like You Have To Buy Me A Present...

Please don't buy anything from those fancy soap places.  I usually don't like the smell and don't have anyplace for the soaps.  I also don't use all sorts of creams, not even hand cream.  Before Passover I finally threw out some, which I had been holding onto for years.  I didn't like the smell and they didn't make my hands feel better.

Sometimes in malls, when salespeople accost me trying to sell hand cream, I agree to try, explaining that I never buy before sampling.  One time I had forgotten that I had some on my hands and was horrified, disgusted when I washed my hands afterwards, because it felt disgusting grease was coming out of the faucet.  Until I realized that the water was "loosening" or "liquefying" that cream...

I also don't like a lot of the face creams; they hurt, burn.  A couple of times when salespeople urged me to sample cleanser creams I insisted they remove them immediately, because I was in pain.  One saleswomen had the nerve, chutzpah to argue with me.  Another time the saleswoman was very nice, explaining that she, too, was sensitive to many brands.

2 comments:

Jennifer in MamaLand said...

My sister had a terrible reaction to a skin product a couple of months ago. Her skin burnt and peeled and swelled - awful! So what did the (big manufacturing) company do when she complained...? Sent her a coupon! Luckily, it could be used for other brands from the same company: she bought Aveeno, an oatmeal-based anti-itch cream to stave off the itching from the initial product! :-o

Batya said...

That's frightening. I'm curious about the Aveeno. Where did she get it?