Elizabeth Warren's Skin Care Routine Has Created A Whole New Debate

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and her skin have been featured in thousands of up-close and personal selfies on the campaign trail. Glowing selfies have become a signature trait, alongside her robust energy and can-do attitude. But according to a new interview with Cosmo , the Democratic senator from Massachusetts apparently never washes her face.

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Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 9, 2020

Warren revealed her most controversial policy yet during Cosmos Candidates Come to Cosmo video series , in which Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pels grills presidential hopefuls on policy, pop culture, and the most burning topic of all, their skin care routines.

As Warren tells it, she uses Ponds moisturizer every morning, every night. But never washes her face.

So I have had, shes passed now but a much older cousin named Tootsie, she told the mag. Years ago, I was, I guess probably somewhere in my 20s, and were at a big family reunion. And Tootsie was beautiful. I looked over at her, and I said, Toots, how do you have such gorgeous skin? She said, Ponds Moisturizer every morning, every night, and never wash your face. So from Tootsie to me to you.

Never? NEVER? It seems unbelievable. And heres where it gets a little murky. Ponds makes a cold cream cleanser that has been a tried and true skin care staple for decades the brand itself launched in 1846. A jar of the cold cream, which both removes makeup and moisturizes the skin, is likely sitting in your grandmothers vanity right now.

So it would track that Warrens much older cousin would have used this cold cream, with the same texture as a moisturizer, thus inspiring Warren to follow suit. But Ponds also sells plain moisturizer, and as confirmed to HuffPost by a spokesperson from the Warren campaign, the moisturizer is what she uses.

Either way, the comment sparked a debate you wont find on PBS: Are people really not washing their faces? And is that gulp OK?

In short, not really.

It is one of my pet peeves, my patients know me well on this, Rosemarie Ingleton , a New York City-based board certified dermatologist, told HuffPost. It is pretty important to wash your face. Throughout the day the skin accumulates dirt from the environment, oils your skin produces, sweat your skin produces, makeup if you have it on, unwanted debris in the environment ends up on your face throughout the day. Pollutants, bacteria, viruses, all of that. And then you have dead cells. If you dont cleanse, you dont remove that, the layer just remains.

Like us, Ingleton had doubts over whether Warren really does nothing at all. She probably at least lets the water run over her face in the shower, she said. But she maintained thats just not enough.

What you might get off with just water is just some of the surface oils and loose dirt particles, but water by itself wont do a thorough enough job of getting rid of all the things that are sitting there throughout the day, she said.