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We may lament that old values go away to the past, we can condescendingly laugh at naivety and the ignorance of our ancestors, but when it comes to the desire of a woman to be beautiful (at all costs!), then over time there is little changing:
1. Corsets
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Do you know what men seem especially boring? Healthful female body, that’s what! Why do you think that in the 19th century the strong sex hunted whales with such zeal? So that women can drag their bodies with whalebone corsets and maim internal organs, of course.
2. Arsenic
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In the 19th century, it was fashionable to eat arsenic to “give the face a flowering look, shine to the eyes, and attractive roundness to the body. ” arsenic, of course, was regulated by a whole set of rules – the moon should be arriving, the first reception is only one seed (for now resistance will not develop), and if you have already started, you should to continue to eat this muck all my life – otherwise death.
True, there were also side effects – arsenic accumulates in thyroid gland and causes goiter. And sometimes death. But when it comes it’s about beauty, who can it stop …
3. Tapeworms
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In this case, women did not just expose their health danger for the sake of a slim figure – they voluntarily settled in their the body of disgusting parasites.
The tapeworm eggs were taken in the form of pills, after which these critters grew in the intestines, absorbing nutrients that intended for man. The owner lost weight, the parasites grew and getting fat.
Some worms reached a length of 30 meters. True, if desired then you could get rid of the “guests”, but just imagine that of you, centimeter by centimeter pull a long, flat, sticky and wriggling worm … Brrr.
4. Bandaging the feet
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Many historians are inclined to believe that the roots of the fabulous Cinderella need to look in China. In other cultures, somehow it doesn’t seem so valuable quality, if the girl is unique, one for the whole country shoe size. But if we are talking about China of the last millennium, then everything falls into place.
This tradition seems to have arisen around the end of 10 century. The point was to be as tight as possible bandage the feet of a little girl, resulting in time they were supposed to turn into “golden lotuses”. Fetid, rotting lotuses with such deep folds that it was impossible to wash them. (Men did not see this, because bare feet were not accepted show even to her husband.)
The process of “ripening lotuses” was terribly painful, and ended with irreversible deformation of the legs and lameness. But precisely This is what the Chinese sought.
Uncertain gait and puppet-sized feet – for the sake of this and all torment was endured.
5. Radioactive cosmetics
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The greatest dignity of the French popular in the 1930s Flo-radia cosmetics were considered to contain thorium chloride and radium bromide. Cosmetics advertising promised miracles: “Provides cells with vitality, enhances blood circulation, makes the skin smooth, eliminates fat, prevents the expansion of pores, relieves from acne, pimples, redness and pigmentation, protects, stops aging and smoothes wrinkles, gives a fresh and blooming look. ”
This cosmetics caused a stormy delight in women, while from her the application did not begin to fall off the jaw.
6. Beladonna
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The name of the plant “beladonna” translates as “beautiful woman. “Once her juice was buried in her eyes, why did they start “shine”, while the pupils dilated. True, then for this beauty had to pay with loss of vision.
7. Lead powder
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The 1700s were very demanding on complexion. In those times rarely anyone lived to adulthood without surviving diseases from which the face was covered with a rash or acne, which is why even after recovery ugly traces remained.
Lead powder was considered the best way to hide defects. It was an excellent tool – inexpensive, well laid down on skin, making it smooth and silky.
But then … a brain tumor, paralysis, almost all systems organisms begin to fail … Beauty had to console themselves with that how beautiful she will be in the grave.
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