similar to hair, if you apply a moisturizer or organic substance that is or contains humectants to your skin in low humidity, the humectant will draw the moisture from your SKIN instead of from the environment (as you've taught me!).
In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscars for his award-winning role in The Godfather. They weren't the first, though. In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios at the time.
The evidence suggests that Marlon Brando was sincere in declining his Oscar to protest the mistreatment of Native Americans. According to Sherry L. Smith's Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power, Marlon Brando had been involved in doing advocacy work for Native Americans for about ten years before he refused to accept his Academy Award.