SC - semi-precious stones and pearls

[Lee-Gwen Booth]

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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