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	Podcast:		Talks and Lectures
	Episode:		Beauty in the reign of Charles II - Stefania Crowther (Taster)
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:11:23
	Publish Date:		2012-05-25 08:10:25
	Description:		Sir Peter Lely’s ‘Windsor Beauties’ show Stuart women with translucent skin, appearing as ‘natural beauties’, free of cosmetics. Was this a 17th-century equivalent of airbrushing or did these women have sophisticated cosmetics at their disposal?The 17th century saw a growing mass market for cosmetic recipes and in the home, women combined their understanding of cookery with their knowledge of herbal medicine to produce a myriad of skin treatments. Ingredients varied from the dangerous, like lead and mercury, to the unpalatable: urine, hog’s grease and animal fats. Household ingredients were also used: lemon juice and egg as well as rose water and almond oil — things that still appear in cosmetics today.
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