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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
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, become a multi-billion-dollar industry? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us a vivid history in which women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup t...  more »
ISBN: 138837
Publication Date: 1998
Pages: 334
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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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