[ SECRET POST #2957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2957 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Didn't a lot of those products contain arsenic and other fun things?

[(Anonymous)]

That was mostly in the 1700's. I believe. The Victorians dialled the heavy powders and such back a few notches.

[(Anonymous)]

For arsenic, it was things like wallpapers, upholstery and other things using a certain green dye (Scheele's Green) that you had to worry about, and to be fair to them, only in the right conditions. They actually did know that arsenic was poisonous on its own, but they thought it would be safe enough as a dye provided nobody actually went around licking the wallpaper or something. They didn't anticipate things like rising damp, etc, producing things like arsine gas.

[(Anonymous)]

Not Victorian, this was actually the early 20th century, but in terms of 'fun things contained in products', including cosmetics, look up the 'radium craze' in America and France in particular. "Give your skin that healthy radium glow!" "Radithor: the elixir of life! Certified radioactive water!" A lot of it wasn't actually radioactive, just using the term for marketing purposes, but some of it was.

There are times when I think that humanity as a collective never got past that stage of a baby's growth where it tests everything by sticking it in its mouth.

[diet_poison]

There are times when I think that humanity as a collective never got past that stage of a baby's growth where it tests everything by sticking it in its mouth.

this is a great line. /giggles

[were_lemur]

Have a gif of the Tenth Doctor licking a cabinet to find out what it is: http://static.tumblr.com/nbtqpa8/rZ6m68p6u/tumblr_lm2u934ty21qfiuy9.gif

[(Anonymous)]

And thallium as a depilatory! (It DOES make your hair fall out.) The story of the "Radium Girls" is really sad, imo.

Deborah Blum's The Poisoner's Handbook has great details on the the hazardous chemicals in common use in the 20s/30s.

[ginainthekingsroad]

Some. Pearl powder was usually bismuth chloride and talc (slightly toxic and definitely an irritant), but some face powders also had arsenic, antimony, mercury, or lead. For that lovely white complexion. Bleh.