Conference thebay::joyoflex

.0�    as 'non-comedogenic', what will it not do (cause)?

    The price won't make you laugh?
    
    Ian.

    It will keep the smile from your face when you hear a good joke?
    
    Steve
    

That this moisturizing cream will not create comedones?

If this is the real meaning, then beware. Usually, they write "hypo-allergenic"
(tr?) to indicate that the cream contains no components that are known to give
allergy reactions. Which does not mean that it is OK; there is no such thing as
a "non-allergenic" cream.

Of course it would go too far if I interpret "non-comedogenic" as "whatever will
develop on your skin, it will most certainly not be comedones", but it surely
sounds less trustworthy than "hypo-allergenic" to me.....

Arie

    I couldn't resist looking up the word in Webster's, which defines
    comedo as "blackhead". Maybe the next cream won't cause acne?

	I heard an ad (not Vissers) where "noncomedogenic" was
	followed by another term as if it were being defined.
	I think it was either "it won't dry out your skin",
	"not oily", or "it won't cause wrinkles".

	There's another topic where it would mean "won't attract
	dogs". :-)

	Dan

    This reminds of a terrible story my high school chemistry teacher
    used to tell about some chemistry professor whose book "Complex
    Ions" became a best seller among women.
    
    len.
     
                                                    

non-comedogenic = won't clog pores/produce blackheads

not the same thing as hypo-allergenic

--ag

    52 months later -- I've grown too old to have blackheads
    
    Nick

    This is a vetinary potion rather than a human cosmetic:
    
    In dog-trials there is a tendency for some hounds to return prematurely
    to heel. A non-comedogenic preparation applied liberally to a dog's
    ears will help to prevent this condition.
    
    Bucko...

    Re .9: vetinary?
    	Denis.

    RE.10 re.9 Whoops!
    
    Put this down to my DiskLexia slipping...I have spent all of my adult
    life (from 39-47) in the mistaken belief that a Horse-Doctor was a
    vetinary. Then along comes Denis and tells me I'm wrong. To use a old
    and vulger British expression: I'm buggered if I'm going to change now.
    
    Bucko...
    

    Re .11:
>    Then along comes Denis and tells me I'm wrong.
    	English not being my native language, I would never dream to say
    such a thing to a native speaker about English grammar or vocabulary.
    I merely in my ignorance asked what a vetinary was, you implied the
    rest. ;^0
    			Denis.

    In Latin, a horse/cow/other-animal doctor is a veterinarius.  In
    Yorksire, it's a vit'n'ry.  It looks as if we have here a splitting of
    the difference.  :-)
    

    Re .11
    
    vulger?

    Re .13
    
    Yorksire?

    From Jonson's "Boswell's Dictionary of Venetian Political and Criminal
    Terms," London University Press, second folio edition, 1853.
    
    _comedogenic_:  A quantificatory classification of the seriousness of a
    putative political event.  Oft-times, the Venetian Doges would travel
    far from their homes & hearths, playing the tourist incognito, and
    determining opportune targets for their raiders' future depredations --
    usually objets d'art or sainted relics.  While they were away, their
    oppositions would invariably try to unseat them, by fair means or foul. 
    If they appeared to be on the verge of success such that the Ruler
    would have to be summoned home to defend his position, their
    machinations were termed "comedogenic."  Fortunately for the long-term
    stability of "La Serenissima," the great majority of such intrigues
    were safely regarded as non-comedogenic, hence Venice's plethora of
    plunder gracing its grottoes.