Regency Beauty: Dr. Withering’s Cosmetic Lotion

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DR WITHERING'S COSMETIC LOTION Take a tea cupful of soured milk cold scrape into it a quantity of horse radish Let this stand from six to twelve hours and strain when it may be used to wash the parts affected twice or thrice a day We could easily give you twenty other prescrip tions for freckles but if you find these fail you may begin to despair of a complete cure unless they depend as they sometimes do on the state of the blood or of the bile It may also be of advantage to attend to what we shall now say respecting sun burn

This recipe appeared in The Art of Beauty; Or, the Best Methods of Improving and Preserving the Shape, Carriage, and Complexion. Together with the Theory of Beauty, 1825

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