skin food

British  

noun

1. a cosmetic cream for keeping the skin in good condition

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Example Sentences

The flush suddenly deepened; he was thinking of Lenina, of an angel in bottle-green viscose, lustrous with youth and skin food, plump, benevolently smiling.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

You’ve got me whatever happens, and if the worst comes to the worst there’s always June Mason’s wonderful skin food for both of us to live on.”

From The Phantom Lover by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)

"Ah, that's the massage and the skin food and neck exercises," said I, wisely.

From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

The skin food should be rubbed in all over the face and far down upon the neck with a firm, circular movement.

From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Stevans, Helen Follett

In the front, between the two windows, stood her dressing-table, now covered with small bottles, some in cut glass and full of scent, others more workmanlike, marked vaseline, glycerine, skin food, bay rum.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel