Stories
- Article
Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics
Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
When kids are offered free cosmetic surgery
When they were a child, Jasmine Owens’ dentist offered to break their jaw – for free. It would make them look better, he said. Read on to find out whether or not they agreed.
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When skin bleaching goes wrong
Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.
Catalogue
- Books
The Cosmetics To Go colour supplement : users' guide valid until August 1993 / Cosmetics To Go.
Cosmetics to Go (Firm)Date: [1993]- Ephemera
Beauty ephemera. Box 8.
- Ephemera
Food supplements ephemera. Box 13.
- Books
Perfect me : beauty as an ethical ideal / Heather Widdows.
Widdows, Heather, 1972-Date: 2018