"I look my age and that's okay, actually," she told the salesman. "What's wrong with a woman looking 40? What's wrong with my eyes? I have a miracle baby at home and haven't slept in two years, so if I have bags I am grateful to have them, and my husband and I laugh a lot. Those are his fault. He loves how I look... I don't think I need your cream."

When the salesman continued to attempted to sell the creams, saying though her wrinkles may be "manageable" now, by 50 it would be "too late to correct sagging skin and deep wrinkles" without surgery, Annick replied: "What's wrong again with a woman ageing? You know, my husband and I can't wait to grow old together, we talk about it all the time, how we'll be this funny wrinkled old couple. My husband is going to age too, we all are. It's kind of how life works.

"I look fine now, and when I'm 45 I will look fine, and when I'm 50 I will look fine, because there is nothing wrong with a woman ageing. Old age is a privilege denied to many, and I don't appreciate you marketing youth instead of your products, and denigrating ageing women as a sales tactic. Thank you, but I don't want or need your cream."

She finished off her impassioned post by sharing a photo of herself and writing: "This is the face my children and my husband love. I think I'll keep it."

When one commenter wrote that the words were "beautiful" and that she'd be sharing with her friends, Annick replied: "Share away! If everyone reacted the same way to the aggressive marketing of impossible beauty standards (like eternal youth) then things would start to change. We have to change this for our kids. We HAVE to."

Annick, you're our heroine.

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This mother's impassioned response to an anti-ageing cream salesman is truly brilliant