Face Cream Fails the Test: Actress Sues

The new Uschi Glass face cream was supposed to make your face soft and silky, reduce those irritating lines that come with age, and leave you looking young and radiant. What those women actually trying out the cream got instead were pimples, irritation and scaly skin.

The women were lathering on the face cream for Stiftung Warentest, a consumer organization that tests and rates new products on the market. Every fourth tester taking the Uschi Glass treatment broke off the regimen early due to dermatological distress. The consumer group gave the pricey product--a jar will put you back €33--a "deficient" rating, which could ring the death knell for the new cream.

"We've never seen so many negative skin reactions as we have with this cream," a spokesperson for the consumer group told the Abendzeitung newspaper in Munich.

Uschi is not going to watch her face cream discredited without a fight. She's taking Stiftung Warentest to court.

The consumer group, however, is taking a relaxed attitude toward the whole affair.

"A lot of people have tried to sue us," said the spokesperson. "No one's ever won."

It's not the first time Glass has been in the press for questionable judgment. Photos of her clad only in a bikini appeared in a glossy magazine last year, Glass was 59 at the time. She said she never thought the bikini photos of a woman her age could cause such an uproar.

"I just did it for a little fun," she said.