{"id":12040,"date":"2022-03-27T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=204336"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T11:23:08","slug":"the-history-of-beauty-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-history-of-beauty-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of beauty: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 27 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Health and beauty historian Lucy Jane Santos answers listener questions and popular online search queries about beauty throughout the ages. From early cosmetics apparently made for gladiators to whether Georgian women really did use mouse fur for false eyebrows, this whistle-stop tour highlights some of the past\u2019s strangest \u2013 and most dangerous \u2013 beauty practices.<\/p>\n<ul><li><strong>Read more from Lucy Jane Santos on<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/modern\/dangerous-cosmetics-worst-beauty-treatments-20th-century-treatments-arsenic-mercury-cantharidin\/&quot;\"> the dangerous cosmetics used until the 20th century<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-204336-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Beauty_everything-193b4cb.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Beauty_everything-193b4cb.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Beauty_everything-193b4cb.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/the-history-of-beauty-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/media.mp3&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhiannon Davies Published: Sunday, 27 March 2022 at 12:00 am Health and beauty historian Lucy Jane Santos answers listener questions and popular online search queries about beauty throughout the ages. 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