Today, for the sake of beauty, women are ready to lie on the surgeon's table, and for some, alas, it ends very sadly. But in fact it was like this at all times. Just before the beauty victims were more. Much more. Because of the use of cosmetic products of the past, you could die. Actually.

Belladonna is a poisonous plant, and the poison contains all its parts. Belladonna juice has been used as a narcotic drug since ancient times, so it seems all the more strange to use this juice for cosmetic purposes. Women buried the juice of the belladonna's berries in the eyes, which made the pupils widen and the gaze became bottomless and radiant. For some time. Then the women are blinded.

Arsenic The Russian name of the element arsenicum "arsenic" comes from the words "mouse" and "poison", since arsenic oxide was used to control rodents. But not only. In the XIX century, tablets with a small dose of arsenic were advertised as a wonderful tool for an even skin tone and "pleasant roundness" of the body. It was really possible to obtain some roundness. However, due to the fact that the poison was accumulated in the thyroid gland and caused the formation of a toxic goiter.

Mercury Before people learned how to get benzene peroxide (the main active substance of drugs for acne), skin imperfections were eliminated with the help of mercury. This same poisonous metal was a part of medicines for various inflammations. Perhaps the inflammation really passed. But mercury and its compounds (mercuric chloride, calomel, calomel) affect the nervous system, liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, inhalation - respiratory tract. Depression, tremor, metallic taste in the mouth - these are only the initial symptoms of poisoning. Mercury is a cumulative poison and has the property of accumulating in the body, eventually causing multiple organ failure and death.

Lead In the Middle Ages pale skin came into fashion, and the ladies were applied to the face of white. The only problem is that the white powder contained lead - a poisonous metal. Lead white was popular until the XIX century. It is impossible to imagine how many women died from lead poisoning. However, the symptoms of poisoning - pallor, uncertain gait, leanness and lack of appetite - were also considered qualities that adorn the girl.

Radium In the 1930s, the French cosmetics Tho-radia, containing thorium chloride and bromide radium. Advertising cosmetics promised an incredible effect: "It provides cells with vitality, enhances blood circulation, makes the skin smooth, removes fat, prevents pores from expanding, eliminates acne, pimples, redness and pigmentation, protects, stops aging and smoothes wrinkles, gives fresh and flowering view". Women actively used the novelty, until the radioactive cream turned them into cripples.

X-ray radiation X-ray radiation today helps us diagnose diseases, but immediately after the invention of X-rays, radiation was tried to be used for cosmetic purposes. To remove unwanted hair. Hair really fell out, it's a fact. However, at the same time the skin was thinning and wrinkles appeared. But the worst thing - after a few years it became clear that an effective method of epilation led to a surge of cancer.

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