Renaissance beauty regimes
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The Origins of Beauty Recipes
It's likely that there's a massive oral tradition of sharing these kinds of recipes between women. And this is picked up when printing starts in the late 15th century. By the early 16th century, when it gets cheaper, people start to collect these beauty recipes and write them down in pamphlets. Some have like really cheap ingredients like snail slimen or like pigeon droppings. Then there's really fancy ones with pearls and emeralds or whatever in there,. It's obviously just for the fancier ladies.
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