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" At various points in your life, in someone else&amp;#039;s shower, you have seen St. Ives Apricot Scrub ($4; cvs.com) sitting on the edge of the tub. It&amp;#039;s an exfoliating cleanser that comes in a tube with a picture of apricots and snow-covered Swiss mountains on the label. It appears to be marketed to environmentally aware Swiss women who eat stone fruit and hike. But such a pleasant and innocuous message belies the utter violence of this product, the abrasiveness that comes from a single surprising component found in the ingredients list on the back of the tube: walnut shell. Which is a natural thing, of course. But badgers are natural, too, and you wouldn&amp;#039;t want them anywhere near your face. When walnut shells are ground up and mixed into a paste, the resulting compound has the consistency of wet sand, and applying it to your face feels vaguely painful, as if you&amp;#039;re actually scrubbing off a layer of skin. Anecdotally speaking, it seems to work. Scientifically speaking, it should. (Exfoliation is the simple mechanical removal of dead, pore-clogging skin cells through physical scrubbing.) But that&amp;#039;s not why you use it. You use it for the way it feels, the way it wakes you up in the morning, via thousands of molecular scratches. It&amp;#039;s a cleanser for men, an exfoliant for masochists, an antidote to an otherwise humdrum bathing experience. Also, it smells nice. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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