These Past Hygiene Practices Will Shock You

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Arsenic To Eliminate Body Hair

So maybe body hair waxing isn’t the most comfortable beauty treatment in the world, but it used to be far worse. In the Renaissance period, women used poisonous arsenic to get rid of unwanted body hair. Long before Photoshop created unrealistic expectations for women’s beauty, artists were painting women completely free of body hair for years. Women were left doing anything they could, including rubbing poison all over, to keep up.