Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
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Do You Know How to Remove Body Hair?
They loved to remove body hair. This is a medieval obsession. And they remove a lot more body hair than we do because one of the big beauty standards in the medieval period is having a really high forehead. But also makeup certainly exists. We have lots of recipes that exist that make, you know, rouge or lipstick. They will also kind of have creams for if you've got too much sun and can put some aloe on. There is a bit of a moral panic about perfume specifically in the Islamic world. It's decided that it's okay for women to wear perfume, but not so much that someone can smell her from far away.
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