Gowland's Lotion
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Title
Gowland's Lotion
Subject
Cosmetics; Women; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Beauty, personal; Mercury
Description
This freckle-removing lotion recipe contains mercury. Nineteenth and twentieth-century Women often unknowingly added poisonous ingredients to homemade cosmetics.
Creator
Ella Adelia Fletcher
Source
Ella Adelia Fletcher. The Woman Beautiful. New York: Brentano’s Publishers, 1901, 169.
Publisher
Brentano’s Publishers
Date
1901
Rights
No copyright-United States
Relation
The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and Heaven
Format
JPEG
Language
Eng
Type
Still Image
Identifier
Recipes_lotions_002
Coverage
Spatial: United States
Temporal: 1900s
Temporal: 1900s
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Book
Files
Citation
Ella Adelia Fletcher, “Gowland's Lotion,” The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and Heaven, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.motherhomeheaven.ohio5.org/items/show/96.
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