goddamnit, not this shit on my dash again
the YouTube video was made by Bernadette Banner, and she got tipsy because she used what turned out to be a much more concentrated form of alcohol than the recipe actually called for (subbing for an ingredient no longer available) in her poorly-ventilated shower. and that was ONE recipe out of probably hundreds floating around at the time. it was hardly representative of a typical Victorian woman’s hair-washing experience, which she freely admits
I shouldn’t even need to retread the whole “corsets were not usually laced tightly enough to even be uncomfortable, let alone make you pass out” thing
lead makeup was no longer in common use by the Victorian era (accounts of “enameling,” or wealthy women wearing incredibly thick, toxic makeup to hide skin imperfections, do appear in newspapers. but those articles acknowledge lead as a poison, just like we do today, and it’s uncertain how much the practice ever actually happened- if at all. period recipes for things called “face enamel” seem to be mostly just skin creams or what we’d now call liquid foundation, and devoid of lead. interestingly, a few involve zinc oxide, which could have had an unintended anti-UV effect. source)
and medically-prescribed orgasms are almost certainly a myth, begun by one Rachel Maines in her 1999 book The Technology of Orgasm
(“but Marzi, it’s only a joke post! lighten up!” my friend, people are definitely believing it in the notes)
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