An indulgence that you could probably eat if you wanted to!Ģ50 g (9 oz) organic cacao butter, grated or finely choppedĩ0 g (3 oz/3/4 cup) coffee grounds, espresso grind (you can use fresh or used, but if used make sure to dry them out in the oven first)ġ0 drops lavender essential oil (or whatever you like: I used grapefruit) I’ve made these a few times and really enjoy them. Safe Cosmetics Australia: a good source for all of my people Down Under.Ī clean beauty monthly subscription service! Sounds like a winner, though I haven’t tried it myself.Ī RECIPE FOR TOX-FREE COFFEE CHOCOLATE SCRUB BARS: It also lets you look up all the individual products currently in your cupboard and see how they rate, which makes it all much easier. This is a great place to find out what ingredients you should avoid and what to look for in a ‘toxin free’ body product. 2017.įor more on modern cosmetics and how to keep yourself tox-free:ĮWG’s Skin Deep website. “ A History of Women Who Burned to Death in Flammable Dresses” by Rae Nudson, Dec. “ Deathly décor: a short history of arsenic poisoning in the nineteenth century.” Halsam, JC. “ Poisonous Pigments: Scheele’s Green.” Los Angeles Art College, 2018. “ Arsenic and Old Tastes Made Victorian Wallpaper Deadly” by Kat Eschner,, April 2017. “ The History of Green Dye is a History of Death” by Jennifer Wright,, March 2017. “Poisons and Poisoning Among the Romans” by David B. “ The Arsenic Dress: How Poisonous Green Pugments Terrorized Victorian Fashion” by Alison Matthews David. A great dive into the lady herself AND the things Romans used to poison each other! ONLINE “Locusta the Poisoner” by Ancient History Fangirl. I encourage you to pick up Kate Moore’s book The Radium Girls, which is one of the best and most powerful nonfiction books I’ve read in the past few years. I haven’t done anything like justice to the story of the Radium Girls, and it is one that is very much worth exploring in greater detail. If you’re interested in deadly fashions, go for Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present by Alison Matthews Davidįor a more specific deep dive, Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home by Lucinda Hawksley. To learn more about poison in the Renaissance period, and how modern forensics has helped us figure out what killed royals of the past, check out The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman. Grab a mortar and pestle, a unicorn horn, and some bright green silk. They flirted with death every day, even if they didn’t know it, dousing themselves in dangerous cosmetics and hair products wrapping themselves in poisonous clothing, caving to the pressure to look young and beautiful, only to have it be the death of them. And sometimes that’s what really happened.īut plenty of women from history have been poisoned, too. When mysterious deaths happen, it’s often blamed on women and their lethal concoctions: rat poison in the pie, arsenic in the wine. But still, there is this pervasive connection between women and poison: that silent killer that doesn’t require brute strength, but a devious and, some say, womanly cunning. A Washington Post article used the FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Report to show that way more men commit murder than women, and poison is the sixth most common way for a woman to kill. They say that poison is a woman’s weapon of choice.īut these days, it isn’t a very popular weapon.
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