- [Devin] What are you reflecting about?

- [Freddie] My past, my present.

- [Devin] Lots going on over there, huh?

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- Today we're trying skincare from the 1950s.

- I feel like skincare has gotten so like overwhelming

as the time goes.

Back then they probably kept it pretty OG,

kept it pretty simple.

- I feel like in the '50s,

it was either don't get wrinkles or don't get acne.

- What is the phrase?

Cleanliness is godliness?

- Yes.

- Like rub, scrub a dub your face.

Scrub it.

- Same principles probably exist.

People just wanting to look their best

but I think we've just gotten a lot more fussy about it.

- The only thing I think of

when I think of the 1950s is cold cream

which I do use to this day.

(gentle instrumental music)

- (gasping) Cold cream!

I love cold cream.

I use cold cream every single night.

It's a very grandma thing to do

but that's the type of person I am.

- So I know from my mom that she used

to use olive oil to take her eye makeup off,

but again, I think that might just be a Sharon Leidel thing

and not like a 1950s thing.

- Yeah, there probably was a mom

who was just like, "Well, I use jello to get my makeup off."

- (Laughing) Yeah. - Another mom who was just

like "Mm, you probably should use cold cream instead."

- The other one's like I bathe in milk.

- Yeah.

- Instead of taking off just our eye makeup,

apparently we have to take off everything with cold cream.

- Okay, I've done that. - You have?

- Yeah, I've dabbled in just putting it everywhere

just to speed up the process.

- Whenever I see people in movies putting on cold cream,

I'm always just like "Mm, girl, your t-zone hates you."

- Okay, so, I have a theory

that cold cream doesn't actually take off all your makeup.

- I already see it working.

- What? - I see it at work.

- How do you see it (laughing)?

- Because it's spreading around the foundation.

- Really? - Yeah, it's at work.

- How did our mothers do it, though?

- There's still a fair amount of makeup coming off my face.

- Not gonna look at that wipe.

- (laughing) Okay.

- So our first skincare tip is from Audrey Hepburn.

- Ooh. - She used to steam her face.

- Steam her face? - To open up her pores.

- All right, so we're just gonna hide under here

for a while.

- [Devin] When Audrey Hepburn says steam your face.

- [Freddie] You steam your damn face.

- [Devin] That's right.

- [Chantel] I wish I was just kinda like

steaming naked right now.

- [Kristin] I just wish I was naked right now.

(laughing)

- Oh, man.

- Aah, I do feel great though.

- So, the next skin care tip from the 1950s

is to actually submerge our face in hot water.

- Do you have a shower cap?

- Marilyn Monroe was the person

who came up with this bad boy tip.

I understood steaming your pores.

I really don't understand putting your face in hot water

other than a torture tactic.

- So we just our whole little faces in there?

- It's too hot.

This is too hot.

I can't do it.

- I don't know why this is so hard for me.

I've taken baths before.

I've taken showers.

I've swam. - I know.

- I don't know why I'm all of a sudden unable

to have my face under water.

- Because we're big babies. (laughing)

- I do feel like this is some kind of weird baptism

of new skin.

(bells ringing)

- We are gonna now wash our faces with bar soap

because that's what they did in the '50s

and this is the brand that Jackie Onassis used.

- I'm on board with that.

She was a classy lady. - Yeah.

It's 45 dollars of soap, man.

- Yeah, you gotta be precious with that.

- I haven't used a bar of soap since I was five.

- I feel like my grandma would have looked

at this and been like,

my soap was eight soaps pressed together.

(laughing)

(groaning)

- This was a terrible idea.

- I have to splash my face 20 times.

- (laughing) 20 times.

- 20 times, not 19.

- Splash yourself in the face 20 times.

- Until you go insane.

- One, two.

- Okay, well, I definitely feel clean.

- Devin keeps trying to get out of doing it 20 times.

Well, I think I feel clean.

Well, I feel good.

- Yeah. (laughing)

- Devin, you still have 10 more times to go.

- I don't wanna do it.

I'm like a cat.

- My skin hasn't felt this clean in a long time.

- My entire body is covered in water,

but my skin is doing fantastic.

(bell ringing)

- We are rounding out this whole regiment

with this 8-hour cream.

- Soothe dried hands and smooth cuticles and nails.

This is like basically the windex of moisturizers.

- Yeah, it feels like we're about to be rubbing Blistex

all over our skin.

- It feels like lip gloss all over your face.

- Mhmm. - It's the best way

to describe it.

- This is quite greasy.

This is quite oily.

- It smells like something your mom would slap on your chest

when you have a cold.

- But then again, they smoked cigarettes a lot back then.

- Definitely not something I would do every day.

I would do it on like a cold winter's night.

- The '50s, man. (laughing)

Crazy times. (laughing)

Crazy times to be alive.

- Yeah, there were a lot of steps, but I feel good.

Like, I think my face feels

like it was worth all the effort.

- I feel refreshed. - Yeah.

- I feel revitalized.

- So 1950s skin care, lady tested.

- Lady approved. - Lady approved.

- What they also did back then, get this,

was to put cold cream on as a primer.

- That, nope, gotta draw the line somewhere.

I am done with that.

- Nerp.

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- Ay. (laughing)

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