Are these unusual beauty treatments of history real or fake?
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Cultures around the world have followed some strange beauty regimes in the past, but can you tell which unusual beauty treatment of history is real or made up?
What are your thoughts on this subject?
96 Comments
mikeyparry
10 / 13. Still getting the same score! One you missed is mercury in soap to lighten skin! I worked in a factory in the 70s that made it!
Sean Davitt
10/13. I think we would all be surprised at what goes into modern cosmetics even in our "modern" society
margaret V.
10/13 - haven't heard of any of these - lol!
mikeyparry
10 / 13. One better than last time!
buhlemann
11/13. I have actually heard of some of these. Arsenic was used for a variety of beauty enhancements. Here in St. Louis at Bellefontaine cemetery there is an elaborate grave monument to a 19th century society belle who took arsenic to make her skin whiter, but also add a blush to her cheek. Because it was working well, she overdid it, but at least posterity got some nice funerary art out of it, complete with moral lesson engraved in the marble.
Shelley Durocher
Irma Rivera, It said egg "whites."
Gary Ellis
9/13. Interesting. And thanks for including the answers.
Jan Ashbaugh
11/13. Good guesser!
mikeyparry
9 / 13. Not bad. Some amazing things people do to themselves!
Ilias Tsiabardas
9/13 almost there 😛