7 horrible "victims" of women of the past for the sake of beauty. Bashny.Net

Chemical peeling, burning skin, appetite suppressants, causing cardiac arrest, plastic surgery ... Nowadays, many women resort to these and many other means, to look better, younger, fresher. No less dangerous methods of trying to improve themselves and the women of past centuries, for example:





1. Arsenic
In the nineteenth century, the fashion began to dictate the new rules, for example, to use arsenic to make the eyes of the fairer sex shine face - a fresh and youthful appearance and body - attractive rounded shapes. Of course, the arsenic intake was regulated by a set of rules, however, if we women started taking it, you will certainly need to have to keep doing it all his life, or else - death. There were, however, and side effects - means accumulating in the thyroid gland, provoked the emergence of the crop, and sometimes could lead to death. But we also talked about the beauty, so these "little things" very few people stopped.



2. Corsets
Do you think that men think especially boring? Apparently, healthy and blooming female body. Why, then, in the nineteenth century by men so diligently hunted whales? In order for women to drag away their own body corsets made of whalebone, thereby injuring internal organs.



3. Stop racking
This strange tradition goes, apparently, by the end of the tenth century. It was at that time little girls living in China is very tight over tighten foot to eventually they could turn into so-called "Golden Lotus". The process of "maturation of flowers" has been incredibly painful and leads to irreversible deformation of the feet and lameness. However, it is these results Chinese usually wanted. After all the suffering for the sake of the girls were transferred puppet feet and unsteadily.



4. Tapeworms
Using this, to put it mildly, ugly means for the slender figure, a woman deliberately subjected own health risks and settles in the body of the parasite. Tapeworm eggs are taken in pill form, and as a result tolstel parasites and grow, absorbing everything the nutrients and their master was losing weight. If desired, however, against such "guests" could get rid of, but this procedure was obviously not a pleasant one.



5. Lead powder
1700th years were very demanding fashionistas complexion. And the most effective way to hide various defects of the skin, was considered the lead powder. Firstly, it was inexpensive, and secondly, such a fine powder is laid down on the skin leaving it smooth and silky. However, from the use of such cosmetics can be paralysis or brain tumor.



6. Radioactive cosmetics
The biggest advantage of the most popular in the thirties of the last century the French cosmetics called «Tho-radia» considered its content of bromide of radium and thorium chloride. With these components, as stated in the advertising of cosmetics, women can get rid of fat, redness, pimples, blackheads, pigmentation, wrinkles and much more. And it is actively used, as long as the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity not just started to fall off the jaw.



7. Belladonna
Once the juice of this plant was instilled into the eyes to their "lights", while the pupils are usually extended. However, soon after such a beauty of a woman he had to pay dearly - they lost sight.

The girls stay beautiful without such horrible means - In case of finding cosmetic grandmother) ...



Source: