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    A mediaeval herb of splendour

    Aug 08, 2018 4 minutes

    There are Elizabethan beauty aids you would wish to avoid, like lead-based foundation to smooth pock marks in your skin, or, for the wealthy, a mix of crushed pearl and whipped egg white that gave similarly smooth skin as well as a fashionably white hue.

    Add poultices of crocodile dung (popular only months’ travel from the nearest crocodile, so either fake or by then the dung had lost its pungency), belladonna drops to enlarge pupils (warning: death is a possible side-effect) and eating arsenic to ward off wrinkles (which it does if taken in large doses — it will also ward off life).

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