At night, I use one of her cleansers, which are really, really light.
The other, she believes, comes from God. "It removes the negative from my home," said Ms. de la Cruz, standing at the source of her divine cleanser, a stream of tap water gushing from an artificial cave outside the Church of St. Lucy in Williamsbridge, a neighborhood in the Bronx.
Tata Harper's facial products ramp up the moonshine with bright organics, including her Regenerative Cleanser with loads of scrubbly microbits that rinse easily and leave you with that priceless glow.
Cue Bruno Mars, the mediator and palate cleanser of the evening.
But his practice routine still includes stretches of jazz improvisation, as a palate cleanser of sorts.
Next, a palate cleanser of three sorbets – carrot, celery and beetroot – followed by rhubarb soup with fromage blanc sorbet.
He has chomped on haunch of journalist, gizzard of priest, pancreas of politician and neck of general, always finding time for a mid-course palate cleanser of Helen Vendler.
At the Fat Duck, an obvious inspiration, Heston Blumenthal starts meals with a palate cleanser of a lime, green tea and vodka foam "cooked" in liquid nitrogen.
After a palate cleanser of melon and mint sorbet, a Santa Rosa cabernet accompanied baked paneer, or cheese, for the vegetarians, tandoori lamb chops for the rest.
Between the Cage, which opened the concert, and the Feldman, which closed the first half, Tom Chiu, the Flux Quartet's first violinist, offered a palate cleanser of sorts.
