The Economist (US), July 29th, 1989
THE SKIN GAME ACCORDING to Albert Kligman, a dermatologist, people who are not beautiful are physically handicapped. According to Gerald McKnight, it is from statements like these that the billion-dollar cosmetics industry draws its profits. Each year vast resources are spent on a lie in which most women willingly co-operate. The cosmetics empires, founded as they are on "illusion backed by entrepreneurial flair", face two kinds of danger. One is the possibility that some potion will one day be found to keep age in abeyance, and put them out of business. In 1987 news came of a miraculous new...
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