On Monday’s blog, I talked about how Elizabethans smeared lead-based makeup on their faces. If you think that’s skeevy, how about bird poop?
Prior to the mid-19th century, Japanese geisha achieved a porcelain-white skin with the time-honored combination of lead… Read More
By the time Elizabeth I was on the throne (in 1559), the ideal of female beauty was a snow-white face, with daubs of red on each cheek. To achieve the deathly pallor, women relied on ceruse, which is white lead.… Read More
Women who regularly wear lipstick inadvertently ingest about four pounds of lipstick during their lifetime. In 2009, the FDA found lead in nearly all samples of lipstick that it tested.… Read More