The strangest beauty treatments people have ventured into

You always want to be beautiful. At any time of the year, in any weather, at any age. And for the sake of beauty, people are able to make many sacrifices. In the pursuit of attractiveness, many lose their common sense. And here nothing can stop, no matter how strange and even scary these procedures of “beauty” may seem to others.

Little depends on the era and century, and therefore many of the known procedures have passed through centuries and exist to this day. If someone offers you another innovative method of rejuvenation, take a closer look at it, is it from old times that it comes from?

Baths for rejuvenation

The ancient Greeks and Romans, both women and men, sacredly believed that special baths would help to become younger and more beautiful. The essence of the procedure was that a considerable amount of crocodile droppings was injected into the water. To improve skin color, another recipe was recommended - crocodile droppings in large quantities were mixed with wet mud.

Some aristocrat of that time was completely immersed in this odorous slurry and left him there for several hours. Rejuvenated and "fragrant" for a mile away, the aristocrat later, of course, attracted the views and attention of others. The win-win option.

Shine and Shine Curls

Widespread popularity among women in Ancient Arabia was a procedure that was considered firming for hair. It was believed that the curls after it acquire incredible brilliance and radiance. Ladies soaked their hair in the urine of camels for hours. The Bedouins specially collected the liquid during the transitions in the desert, and then sold it to beauties.

Whitening makeup

Queen Elizabeth the First introduced fashion on the face. Ladies tried to meet the standard of beauty, and men did not lag behind them. The face was whitened to such an extent that it began to resemble a plaster mask. But it is not for us to judge how attractive this is, and this is not the main thing.The main thing is that whitewashed was made on the basis of a poisonous mixture of lead and vinegar. Everyone knew about it, doctors regularly treated huge facial ulcers, sometimes they died of lead intoxication, but they persistently continued to whiten their faces.

Weight loss diet

A few decades ago, a very dangerous fashion for losing weight with parasites gained unprecedented proportions all over the world. The bottom line is that a person voluntarily drank pills with parasite cysts. After some time, the cysts turned into larvae, and those into adult individuals, and these individuals lived inside a slimming person and ate a sweet soul that ate the carrier, pulling out all the useful substances from the body.

Then it was proposed to etch the parasite and begin the next course. In some, the worms reached a meter long, injured internal organs. Around the world, the number of people suffering from gastrointestinal diseases and dementia has increased.

Down with the extra hair

Hair removal at the beginning of the last century was not a procedure for the faint of heart. Women, to get rid of excess vegetation on the body, substituted their body under x-rays. Such hair removal usually had a very sad outcome - hair fell not only on the legs, but also on the head, and tumors and radiation damage gradually developed.

"Living" blush

Beauties were loved by beauties of all time. But one of the most beautiful women in history, the Egyptian Nifertiti, suffered a special craving for blush. She made blush from clay and ground small bugs. Perhaps this was one of the first recipes that is known to historians for certain. And in the footsteps of Nifertiti, crowds of followers walked for a long time.

Red lips

Indian women, before the invention of lipstick, understood how attractive red lips looked. To achieve this effect, they almost constantly had to chew betel leaves. With interruptions in songs and dances, of course.

Bethel not only painted lips in the desired color, but also rapidly destroyed the teeth of beautiful women and very often became the cause of oral cancer.

Makeup remover

Sometimes removing water alone is not enough to remove makeup. And therefore, women from ancient times used bird droppings for this purpose. The first to be used for this purpose were Japanese geisha who wore a thick layer of makeup on their faces. The litter is rich in nitrogenous compounds, which are dangerous for the skin, and therefore experienced geishas could no longer not apply makeup over time - this is not a place for beauty, just to hide ulcers on the cheeks.

Face training

Once the dimples on the cheeks were considered a real sign of beauty, femininity. But what about those who have no dimples from birth? At the beginning of the last century, a solution was found - they came up with a special simulator, which was two handles with a tight spring. The dimples formed almost mechanically. The procedure was very painful, but the ladies wholeheartedly believed that it would help to find the desired dimples. This did not always work out. Where more often there were injuries to the face up to fractures of the facial bones.

Wigs

Long hair in the Middle Ages was considered chic and fashionable. But these were not growing at all, but many wanted. Ladies often wore wigs and hairpieces, gluing artificial hair to their own with the help of animal fat. The fragrance was still there, and most of all it was liked not even by knights and lords, but by mice and rats.

And so the lady had to keep her favorite wigs in a cage, where they put things at night, so that rodents did not reach them.

After that, it’s somehow inconvenient to complain that it is uncomfortable to sleep in curlers, and waxing takes away a lot of patience and spoils nerves.