• wieson@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    If it was whitening lead, yeah. But you can have rouge from red ochre, literally dirt, aka egyptian earth.

    It can be the same pigment as with modern makeup just without the oils as a glue. Perhaps it wouldn’t even cause pimples.

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      19 hours ago

      Finely milled mineral powders are really, really bad for your lungs. A lot of makeup, for a very long time now, has been in this format.