11/05/09

From age-defying hair styles to skinny jeans and wrinkle serums, there are tons of tricks out there that promise to instantly instantly peel years off your looks - no exercise or plastic surgery required. But there’s one trick that really does make you appear younger - even standing stark naked without any makeup - and that’s grapefruit.

A by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago found that the scent of the pucker-provoking fruit can actually trick the male brain into believing that the women around them are six years younger than their actual age.

So how do you ensure that the citrus scent is incessantly infusing your man’s senses? Start with a bowl of grapefruit in the morning (grapefruit juice will do too), exfoliate your skin with pink grapefruit suds, and spritz on grapefruit essential oil perfume.

Of course, if your goal is to pull the grapefruit wool over the heads of more than a select few (like at a holiday party or high school reunion), maybe stick to the serums. Or you can always go the pink grapefruit candle route to blanket the room with age-reversing scent and cover all your bases.

Smelling is believing.

posted by: Laurel