Keeping our skin glowing and healthy should be a top priority, considering it’s one of the easiest ways to enhance your personal radiance and beauty. A clean, pure looking face with moisturized and healthy skin goes a long way to make a good impression, so taking advantage of all the modern means available to get that effect is certainly a worthwhile pursuit. People in the past thought so, too — but their answer to great, healthy skin has at times been a little on the unusual side, and even bordered on the dark edge of bizarre. Let’s take a look at some of the things people in various points of history have done to make their skin glow. It will make you thankful that all we have to do is visit a spa or department store. Just as we once used moats and stockades to defend our homes before adt home security existed, people went to extremes to keep their skin healthy.
For one thing, there was a time when sandpaper was used as a kind of primitive microderm abrasion. Can you really imagine rubbing the delicate skin of your face with sandpaper? I can’t. And, the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra actually used spoiled milk to exfoliate her skin. The acid that built up in the sour milk acted to sort of burn off the dead skin cells (and it probably smelled terrible, too.) Check out this infographic for more of history’s bizarre ways of treating skin.
