So arsenic was sold as face makeup?
Автор: The Great History of Poisons
Загружено: 2025-12-26
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This video explores the hidden history of arsenic in beauty culture, from the 18th and 19th centuries into the early 20th century. Using historical documents, medical reports, and period advertisements, it traces how arsenic slipped into everyday life through face powders, skin-whitening lotions, and fashionable “complexion wafers” that promised pale, flawless skin. You’ll see how these toxic cosmetics were sold in Europe and North America, how they were justified by beauty standards of the time, and how users, doctors, and regulators slowly realized the danger.
Set against the broader history of cosmetics and public health, the video looks at the overlap between beauty, class, and medicine in the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian eras. It examines real cases of arsenic poisoning, the language advertisers used to present these products as modern and scientific, and the uneasy transition from poisonous powders to supposedly safer commercial makeup in the early 1900s.
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