vanishing cream

American  

noun

1. a cosmetic similar to cold cream but less oily, applied usually to the face and neck as a base, night cream, or moisturizer.

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vanishing cream British  

noun

1. a cosmetic cream that is colourless once applied, used as a foundation for powder or as a cleansing or moisturizing cream

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Example Sentences

Health: Women continue to buy into fad diets and products such as vanishing cream.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream at him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her hands, treated every night with vanishing cream, fluttered around us, stroking, rubbing.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Like trees and lemon vanishing cream, and Nu Nile Hair Oil and flecks of Sen-Sen.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison