Definition of Face cream

1. Noun. A cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin.

Exact synonyms: Cold Cream, Coldcream, Vanishing Cream
Generic synonyms: Cream, Emollient, Ointment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Face Cream

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face-offs
face-plant
face-planted
face-planting
face-plants
face-saving
face-to-face
face-up
face-value
face angle
face blindness
face card
face cards
face cloth
face cream (current term)
face down
face for radio
face form
face fungus
face guard
face lift
face lifting
face like a bag of spanners
face man
face mask
face mask penalties
face mask penalty
face masks

Literary usage of Face cream

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and WomenEnglish periodicals (1908)
"... "the face-cream without grease." is the real aid to Beauty. It cleanses the pores of grime and dirt, clears the skin and lends a natural charm to even a ..."

2. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1910)
"Liquid face cream. EPM writes: "Will you kindly publish a formula for a good liquid face cream—one that is neither greasy nor sticky when applied, ..."

3. Putnam's MagazineLiterature Periodicals (1908)
"Pompeian Massage Cream is the largest selling face cream <£ in the world, 10000 jars being made and sold daily. _^ £ Mfg. Co. Test it with Free Sample Also ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1906)
"face cream—Formula.—Gemayel recommends the following formula for a face cream: 1000 p. of white vaseline are melted with 120 p. of paraffin; ..."

5. A Treatise on Commercial Pharmacy: Intended as a Reference Book and a Text by Daniel Charles O'Connor (1912)
"... took out a fifty-cent jar of face cream which was enjoying a big sale at that time, told a little story about its qualities as a skin food, and remarked ..."

6. Old Age: Its Cause and Prevention. The Story of an Old Body and Face Made Young by Sanford Bennett (1912)
"The lines have then been temporarily pressed out, the skin has still a slight coating of face cream, and the conditions are then favorable for this friction ..."

7. Marketing methods by Ralph Starr Butler (1917)
"Here is John Smith and Company, the wholesale druggists, with a brand of face cream of their own. Their salesmen have orders to push it and to try ..."

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