A few years ago my friend from Japan brought me a big tub of Pond’s Age Beauty Cream Cleansing and I had that moment of, “OMG I love it!” but in reality, I was like, “My grandmother used this stuff to take her makeup off 60 years ago…”
And this is a story about how Japanese Pond’s Age Beauty Cream Cleansing is so much better than mere Pond’s Cold Cream.

I think I tried Pond’s Cold Cream when I was 14 and newly obsessed with skincare everything. I recall trying to love it but not really understanding what it actually did. Fast forward several years and I tried it again in my early twenties and I remember it being an awful mess. With all the different cleaners on the market why would anyone want to remove their makeup with cold cream" I think cold cream and instantly Joan Crawford and my grandmother come to mind. Not that my grandmother was following up by toning with vodka mine you, that was all Joan. Many years went by and many cleansers came and went through my life but Pond’s Cold Cream wasn’t one that made it into my daily routine. Several years ago, when my friend Mai was visiting from Tokyo she brought me plenty of goodies as she always does and one of those beauty goodies was a big old jar of Pond’s Age Beauty Cream Cleansing. I raised a brow, told her all about how I’ve used it before and hated it. She explained to me it was a good deal different from the US formula. And t...