Beauty Tips For Body Care
I am very into German musicals despite not speaking German and one of my favorites is called simply Elisabeth which is about the last Austrian Empress, Elisabeth. If her only son hadn't committed suicide without an heir, Franz Ferdinand wouldn't have become heir to the Austrian empire and who knows, maybe WWI/WW2 would have gone differently.She is most famous for the series of Austrian films about her which were made before it was known how deeply unhappy she was at court. They depict her life as much more lighthearted, and not about her deep depression and unhappiness of the restriction of court, her possible eating disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, the murder-suicide her son committed, the death of her first daughter in young childhood, the fact that she wasn't allowed to raise her own children, etc. They also referred to her as Sissi, when her nickname was always spelled Sisi.Perhaps because she had so little control over her own life, she had an extreme beauty routine and diet. She prided herself on her appearance, maybe because she was thought of as ugly in her childhood. This is the most famous portrait of her ever done. She refused to have photographs taken of her or to sit for portraits after age 32, however a few were taken without her knowledge. This is the last known photo of her, taken at age 60, the day before her assassination (she was stabbed with a file, however her corset was laced so tightly that she didn't bleed out at the scene and they didn't realize she had been stabbed at first). She once said “Ah, the horror of growing old, to feel the hand of Time laid upon one’s body, to watch the skin wrinkling, to awake and fear the morning light, and to know that one is no longer desirable! Life without beauty would be worthless to me.”Spending three hours a day getting her hair done, going for intense walks for ten hours at a time, eating very little to the point where she weighed about 100 pounds and stood at 5'8'' tall were normal for her.Her skincare regimen was also intense. Wikipedia describes it as:Unlike other women of her time, Elisabeth used little cosmetics or >perfume, as she wished to showcase her natural beauty, but she >tested countless beauty products prepared in the court pharmacy, >or prepared by a lady-in-waiting in her own apartments, to >preserve it. Although one favorite, "Crème Céleste", was >compounded from white wax, spermaceti, sweet almond oil, and >rosewater; she attached far less importance to creams and >emollients, and experimented with a wide variety of facial tonics >and waters, from which she apparently expected more results. >Elisabeth slept without a pillow on a metal bedstead, all the better >to retain her upright posture, with either raw veal or crushed >strawberries lining her nightly leather facial mask. She was >heavily massaged and often slept with cloths soaked in either >violet- or cider-vinegar above her hips to preserve her slim waist, >and her neck was wrapped with cloths soaked in Kummerfeld-toned >washing water. To further preserve her skin tone, she took both a >cold shower every morning (which in later years aggravated her >arthritis) and an olive oil bath in the evening.She also used cold cream made for her with "beeswax, sweet almond oil, rosewater and cocoa butter" and "a cream made with cream made with lard, marshmallow roots and ground slugs". From hereMy question is (I'm not seeking to emulate her), did this skincare routine do her any good? She obviously looks pretty good for sixty in the last photo of her ever taken, but did those ingredients help?
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