Beauty products can seem awfully mysterious. Among all of the lotions and potions that crowd your average drugstore aisle, you'll find many enigmatic claims about "defying" age, "revitalizing" crow's-feet and "purifying" pores. Can any product live up to the hype? "There's a lot of misinformation," said dermatologist Sandra Read, a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Dermatology. "A lot of claims being made out there are unsubstantiated." Nevertheless, many women (and not a few men) remain seduced by these pint-size elixirs of youth and pulchritude. Here's the scoop on a few products that you may have wondered about.
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