There’s a myth that eveybody in the middle ages ran around looking rough, with uncombed hair, black teeth, bad complexions, and smelling rather bad.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth if contemporary records are anything to go by.\u00a0 Beauty tips abound.<\/p>\n
Take hair for instance.\u00a0 This applies to men and women:\u00a0 mix dried rose petals, cloves, nutmeg and galangal with rose water and rinse through the hair.\u00a0 Leave to dry.\u00a0 Should smell re-e-a-ally good.<\/p>\n
For a smooth, touchable skin melt beeswax, almond oil, rose oil and frankincense in a dish over a flame.\u00a0 Allow to cool.\u00a0 Massage into face and body.\u00a0 It also eases aches and pains after jousting.<\/p>\n
For bright eyes mix one part of wych hazel with four parts water.\u00a0 Use as eye lotion.\u00a0 Is said to improve eyesight too so you’ll see those pointed swords coming and it’ll give you an edge down at the butts.<\/p>\n
To lighten dark hair to look like a Florentine blonde soak hair in a bowl of fresh urine.\u00a0 OK so that does sound wiffy but if you rinse the hair with the rose petal concoction afterwards you should still have plenty of allure.<\/p>\n
Teeth should be brushed using a hazel twig with mashed up fennel and lovage.\u00a0 And, if you can get it, salt.<\/p>\n
For pleasant breath chew a leaf of mint or parsley.<\/p>\n
To make lips looks red and kissable rub them with beetroot.<\/p>\n
To round off your beauty treatment go to one of the town baths (the stews) and have a bran soak to make your skin\u00a0 feel like best Cathay silk.<\/p>\n
After all that, don your best poulaines and a clean houplande and go to the feast at your nearest castle where you’ll be the belle or beau of the ball.<\/p>\n
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There’s a myth that eveybody in the middle ages ran around looking rough, with uncombed hair, black teeth, bad complexions, and smelling rather bad.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth if contemporary records are anything to go by.\u00a0 Beauty tips abound. Take hair for instance.\u00a0 This applies to men and women:\u00a0 mix dried rose petals, cloves, nutmeg and galangal with rose water and rinse through the hair.\u00a0 Leave to dry.\u00a0 Should smell re-e-a-ally good. For a smooth, touchable skin melt beeswax, almond oil, rose oil and frankincense in a dish over a flame.\u00a0 Allow to cool.\u00a0 Massage into face<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}