Comments on: DIY Cosmetics: Life In Colonial America http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/07/04/diy-cosmetics-life-in-colonial-america/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:27:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Left Brain http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/07/04/diy-cosmetics-life-in-colonial-america/comment-page-1/#comment-29351 Left Brain Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:37:51 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=2555#comment-29351 Yuk! The fact that she looks younger than your other aunt and mom probably is unrelated to her "unique" facial habits. There is no evidence than hormones in your pee will have a beneficial effect on skin. More likely is that she wasn't exposed to as much sunlight as your mom & aunt or she just has better genetics. Feel free to skip this experiment. Yuk!

The fact that she looks younger than your other aunt and mom probably is unrelated to her “unique” facial habits. There is no evidence than hormones in your pee will have a beneficial effect on skin. More likely is that she wasn’t exposed to as much sunlight as your mom & aunt or she just has better genetics.

Feel free to skip this experiment.

]]> By: Tamara Bell http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/07/04/diy-cosmetics-life-in-colonial-america/comment-page-1/#comment-29349 Tamara Bell Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:17:00 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=2555#comment-29349 I know this sounds gross but my aunt pees on a cotton ball in the morning and wipes it all over her face. She looks way younger than my other aunt and my mom who are both older than her. They say it's because of the hormones in your pee in the morning being spread on the face and helping the skin. I can't bring myself to try it! I know this sounds gross but my aunt pees on a cotton ball in the morning and wipes it all over her face. She looks way younger than my other aunt and my mom who are both older than her. They say it’s because of the hormones in your pee in the morning being spread on the face and helping the skin. I can’t bring myself to try it!

]]> By: Janis http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/07/04/diy-cosmetics-life-in-colonial-america/comment-page-1/#comment-28989 Janis Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:58:51 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=2555#comment-28989 I remember watching a TV show about modern families who lived in a typical pioneer house for a few months -- a lot of backbreaking work. I wouldn't have survived it. But one of the families was a fairly well-off one: CEO father, SAHM mother who was VERY focused on her appearance, two sons, and two teenaged daughters. The daughters coped better than anyone else did, but one of the things they were as unhappy with as their mother was the absence of cosmetics. They invented mascara with lard and soot -- not just ash, but actual fine soot. they made little applicators, too. I thought it was absolutely adorable. How clever for these kids. I remember watching a TV show about modern families who lived in a typical pioneer house for a few months — a lot of backbreaking work. I wouldn’t have survived it.

But one of the families was a fairly well-off one: CEO father, SAHM mother who was VERY focused on her appearance, two sons, and two teenaged daughters. The daughters coped better than anyone else did, but one of the things they were as unhappy with as their mother was the absence of cosmetics.

They invented mascara with lard and soot — not just ash, but actual fine soot. they made little applicators, too. I thought it was absolutely adorable. How clever for these kids.

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