The scrub was fantastic, sloughing off all the old skin cells and leaving my skin feeling clean and tingly.

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They also taught Sharon how to keep Dave clean, protect his skin from breakdown, and handle the crises to come.

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The skin above her collarbone had the clean, smoky, late-October smell of candle wax.

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Patients are also advised about the importance of sleeping on clean sheets before surgery to avoid bacteria on the skin.

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In the most concentrated areas, he says, it could be compared to products you would clean your kitchen with, causing dry or cracked skin, or - in cases of prolonged contact - it can "lift off the top layer of your skin".

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Mr. CHRISTA BELL (Poet): Because your eyes remind me of watermelon rinds scraped clean of their meat by narrow teeth because today your skin is not burnished honey but a bitter herb chew to hold the grief at bay, because your lips are the purple grapes of (unintelligible).

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An emollient is rubbed into the skin to soothe and moisten it, while a soap substitute is simply used to keep it clean.

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To clean DNA, scientists then struggled for a couple of days--and many still do, working with skin-scorching chemicals.

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Pascal, now showered and clean, was lying in bed as his parents hovered, handing him water, juice, creams for his skin.

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