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The history of beauty: everything you wanted to know

HistoryExtra podcast

HistoryExtra

History

4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Health and beauty historian Lucy Jane Santos answers listener questions and popular online search queries about beauty throughout the ages. From early cosmetics apparently made for gladiators to whether Georgian women really did use mouse fur for false eyebrows, this whistle-stop tour highlights some of the past’s strangest – and most dangerous – beauty practices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:47.5

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

0:56.2

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

1:01.5

Did Georgian women really use mouse fur for fake eyebrows?

1:05.8

Why could a trip to the hair salon make you spontaneously combust?

1:10.7

And how have beauty standards for men changed throughout history?

1:17.1

In today's Everything You Want to Know episode, we're tackling the long history of beauty.

1:23.8

Answering your questions on the subject was Lucy Jane Santos, a historian of health and beauty, who's also the author of Half Lives, The Unlikely History of Radium.

1:29.1

Speaking to her was Rihanna Davis.

1:31.6

So before we dive in, this is a huge world-spanning topic, and we can't cover it all.

1:38.1

So in today's episode, we're going to be covering a few interesting areas that people have

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