文档介绍：一位中年男士的护肤心得 Man meets moisturiser What are you doing in there? ” So shouts my wife after I’ ve spent getting on for 40 minutes in the bathroom. “I’ m, er, exfoliating, ”I call back merrily, while walking my fingers along the pots and potions crowding the windowsill. Holy Saint Francis , as Friar Laurence puts it in Romeo and Juliet, what a change is here! “你在里面折腾啥呢? ”我在卫生间呆了足足 40 分钟后, 我妻子在外大声喊道。“呵呵, 正在去死皮呢,”我一边用手找摸窗台上堆放的各种瓶瓶罐罐, 一边愉快地回复道。就是《罗密欧与朱丽叶》(Romeo and Juliet) 中劳伦斯神父(Friar Laurence) 所说的 Holy Saint Francis 这类东西, 如今的化妆品可谓琳琅满目, 真是今非昔比! And not just here: men ’s beauty products — moisturisers supposedly optimised for male skin and sold in butch-yet-metrosexual tubs in science-fictional silvers and blacks — have been undergoing a boom. According to Mintel, sales of men ’s skincare products rose last year to ￡ , up from ￡ in 2012, and are forecast to reach ￡ in 2014. Men also appear to be hell-bent on not just washing but “ cleansing ”, not just rubbing but “ gently massaging ”, on introducing the skin not just to water, but toa very superior scientific product called “ aqua ” And — that holy grail, that precise incantation marking the line where the marketing departments of panies fought the Advertising Standards Authority toa standstill — on“ reducing the appear ance of wrinkles ”. forting idea that, as men age, they e more attractive seems not to be endorsed