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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Hope in a Jar The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Author: Kathy Peiss, Kathy Lee Peiss
The first social history of American beauty culture: a richly textured account of how women created the cosmetics industry and how cosmetics created the modern woman. How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a Victorian "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were called, b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805055504
ISBN-10: 0805055509
Publication Date: 5/1998
Pages: 334
Rating:
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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reviewed Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture on + 53 more book reviews
A history of the cosmetics industry from the late-1800s to the mid 1980s.

I wish the author could have gone more in-depth about what the cosmetics were made out of, if there was any real difference between brands and more about the negative effects of cosmetics on women.

While I respect the fact that she managed to include African Americans and men in this history, I feel that the author could have written more about cosmetics and other minorities.

I did learn a lot of interesting facts about the origins of certain brands and for that I give it eight stars.
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Great American history of cosmetics, both for white and black skin. Easy to ready, enjoyable travel through time.


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