Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
Poisonous Plants Were Used for Makeup

Women are always sold different products to improve their looks. Beauty standards are constantly changing, yet they inevitably always target women, and the 16th and 17th centuries were no different. A trend of that time was to have big, dilated pupils and rosy cheeks purely for aesthetic purposes. Although the only way to achieve this was to eat a very poisonous plant named nightshade. The side effects were horrific, but again, beauty is pain.

Women would risk severe side effects from ingesting this plant, like heart failure, hallucinations, ulcers, and severe stomach pain. Was it worth it?