El hair on female body has never enjoyed much popularity in society; today women have easy and hygienic resources to achieve a perfect hair removal but How did Renaissance women get rid of unwanted hair? I have read the news in the prestigious Smithsonian magazine and in it they have had Jill Burke, Professor of History of the Italian Renaissance. Her explanation of the Renaissance woman waxing process is frankly interesting and why not: creepy. women tried to remove hair in every possible way and here's one recipe 1532 worn by Renaissance women:
Boil a solution of a liter of arsenic together with an eighth of quicklime. Go to a warm room or bathroom and apply the medicine to the area to be treated. When you feel that the skin is hot, remove quickly with hot water so that the meat does not become I raised.
Renaissance women attached great importance to hair, so there were also formulas to give life and shine to dull hair that consisted of a mixture of cat manure y vinegarIn addition, the blonde color for the hair was the desired one for what they applied sulfur, onion and other concoctions to get the blonde tone.
Simonetta Vespucci was considered the most beautiful woman of the Renaissance and was painted in "La Venus de Milo" by Botticelli
Equally the skin tone they coveted the pale tone, and this could only be achieved with dangerous bleaches such as lead oxide, hydroxide and many other compounds that sometimes put the lives of the ladies in danger. The eyes nor were they spared from fashion; the glassy gaze together with the paleness of the face was the sumum of beauty. Belladonna to dilate the pupils.
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Source - Smithsonian , theborgias.wikifoundry