Milk bath

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A milk bath is a bath taken in milk, not water. Often other scents such as honey, roses, lavender and essential oils are added. Milk baths use lactic acid, alpha hydroxy acid, to dissolve proteins that unite dead skin cells.

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Histori

There is a legend that Cleopatra baths with donkey milk every day for her skin. These legends have not been confirmed and some historians believe that the Roman Empress Poppaea regulates this bathing mode after the death of Cleopatra

Queens Catherine Parr and then Elizabeth I of England used a milk bath to make their skin look younger and pale.

The tincture of benzoin is also called a 'milk bath' in the 1800s America, which in some cases can be confusing to bathe cow's milk, was also popular at the time.

There are references to cow's milk as a bath technique found in India in the 1800s in "Fifty-one years of Victorian life" by the Countess of Jersey Dowager.

In the early 1900s, singer and Broadway star Anna Held reportedly bathed in milk every day but was later quoted to have showered milk twice a week while living in Paris but it was difficult to do so while traveling. Her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. then reported to the press that he was bathing milk every day and arranging the photoshoot so that reporters could photograph the milk sent to him.

Bath buttermilk is also a common historical bathing technique for show animals and remains in current practice (such as pigs and dogs).

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In Movies and Media

• Milk baths for the intended treatment purpose for a dying child can be seen in the 1931 movie Night Nurse .
• Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) milk bath in the 1932 movie the Cross Sign .
• In the 1973 film Charlotte's Web Edith Zuckerman, Homer's wife suggested giving Wilbur a buttermilk bath in preparation for the fair.
• Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) is pictured bathing in a milk bath while wearing a crown in the 2012 film Snow White and Hunter

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Various materials

Required

• Fresh Milk or Milk Powder

Optional

• Water
• Honey
• Oatmeal
• Almond Meal
• Lavender
• Essential Oils
• Herbs
• Nona
• Orris Root
• Oil bergamot
• Geranium Oil
• Vitamin E Oil
• Corn Starch
• Seaweed
• Sea salt

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External links

• Recipes for Milk Baths
• Lavender-Honey Milk Bath

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia