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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast. Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History

Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Did you know that Renaissance women used arsenic

and mercury in their makeup, even though they knew they were poisonous? On today's podcast,

Professor Jule Burke and Charlotte Hodgman, adventuring into the realm of Renaissance

beauty culture, from cosmetic recipes to 16th century body anxieties, revealing that

Renaissance women weren't all that different from us today. Before we kind of get into

the interview, perhaps you could just set out for us what the kind of ideal Renaissance

women looked like. So beauty ideals in their Renaissance are really narrow. The ideal

woman has golden blonde, wavy hair, not straight but not curly, and the kind of dark blonde,

it's not got to be too light and it's not got to be too dark. They have pale skin that's

rosy, with rosy cheeks and rosy lips, and they're quite plump, so you wouldn't want

a bony woman, and ideally they'd have a kind of figure like a peach, so they'd have wider

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