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Museum Lecture: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Cosmetics of Early America

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, DAR Headquarters

You've heard the horror of lead and arsenic as beauty aids from the past. But what else did people use? Was it all bad? Discover both the deadly and the harmless ingredients involved, and what was acceptable in 18th and 19th century America. Samples included! (…Of the safe stuff, don’t worry.)

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