Question by Vamp Pet: What are some ancient beauty secrets?
and why are there so many songs about rainbows lmao
Best answer:
Answer by Mystic
rose hip oil
three cups of milk
oatmeal and wintergreen and soak in the tub
What do you think? Answer below!
Get plenty of rest, stay out of the sun, and drink lots of water.
~The Egyptians used palm oil as a moisturizer and wet sand mixed with honey as an abrasive cleanser.
The Romans used the placenta as a facial mask. They would take the afterbirth and spread it all over their face and neck and leave it to harden. Then they would rinse it with a mixture of lavender and water, and then wipe olive oil on as a moisturizer.
The Greeks used the urine of newborns (some say until they were introduced to solid foods) as a body astringent.
Some North African tribes used camel’s milk mixed with sand and honey as a facial and body cleanser.
The Assyrian women and men both used dried reeds made into combs and combed their hair with a mixture of oil, flowers and musk.
Before hair spray was invented, women mixed sugar and water together to make their hair stay in place. Apparently, it would stay in place for days.
Nordic women used the fat from animals that their men killed and melted it down with various grasses and seeds to make a body wrap (like a mud bath) that they believed help pregnant women have an easier labor.
bathing.. (romans) and .. possibly.. floral scents and eye makeup has been around since ancient egypt.. (not that i like eye makeup)
but.. um.. what else.. they prolly bathed with seaweed too..
and aloe vera.. and ate lots of fish.. for that good fish oil.. that fought depression and made their skin amazing.
as for rainbows.. i have no clue..