SC - semi-precious stones and pearls
Lee-Gwen Booth
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Wed Jun 14 20:57:59 PDT 2000
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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
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