SC - dream camp kitchens

[Sue Clemenger]

- --- Lee-Gwen Booth <piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au>
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lars
> 
> > This sounds a lot like a reference I once read
> regarding face powders in
> > Egypt when I was in school. Created a fine white
> powder not based on
> anything
> > dangerous so as to give you that soft "white,
> never worked the fields"
> look
> 
> I have a nasty feeling that it was a lead powder
> (arsenic was, I think, used
> in Victorian times for the same purpose).
> 
> Gwynydd

Actually, by Victorian times they had stopped using
lead powder.  It was mostly a 18th century look.  The
Georgians also used arsenic to whiten the skin and
clear up the complexion.  In order to not poison
yourself, you had to consume the arsenic dry and not
drink anything for several hours thereafter. 
Unfortunately, the arsenic, while giving you white
skin and rosey cheeks, would deposit itself in your
fat cells, especially around the kidneys, so that if
you ever lost weight you would die of arsenic
poisoning.  The things that they did in the name of
beauty.

Huette

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