Finishing Touch
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The strange, desperate history of looking good. Finishing Touch is a fascinating exploration of the materials and methods people have used across centuries to enhance, preserve, or chase after physical beauty.
Author Julian Walker opens up a curious — and occasionally uncomfortable — history of human vanity, revealing the ingenuity, self-delusion, and outright trickery behind the cosmetic record. The book features bizarre home remedies and grotesque commercial innovations: a face wash made from minced and boiled pigeons, bear's grease as hair conditioner, horseradish in sour milk to lighten a tan, an Anglo-Saxon prescription for cosmetic surgery, and methods for keeping mice out of elaborate wigs.
The price of beauty, in full.
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