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10/11/2026
🖤💄 INTRODUCING: ROUGE AND RUIN, Beauty with a Body Count 💄🖤
The dark side of beauty has a history worth uncovering.
Beauty has always come at a price. But what if some of the products once considered beautiful were far more dangerous than anyone imagined?
Welcome to Rouge and Ruin — a deep dive into the fascinating, sometimes horrifying history of cosmetics, beauty rituals, and the toxic ingredients people once used in the name of beauty.
☠️ From arsenic-laced beauty treatments and lead-based face powders to mercury-filled cosmetics and dangerously questionable beauty trends, we're uncovering the stories hidden behind the glamour.
🔎 What will we explore?
🩸 The toxic ingredients once celebrated as beauty secrets
💋 The dangerous beauty standards that shaped generations
⚗️ The science behind the substances people put on their skin
📜 The historical figures, bizarre beauty rituals, and tragic consequences that changed the beauty industry
🕯️ The lessons history can teach us about the products we use today
This isn't about fearmongering. It's about history, science, and asking the questions that beauty marketing doesn't always encourage us to ask.
🖤 Rouge and Ruin: Beauty with a body count. Where beauty meets its darker history.
Follow along as we peel back the layers of glamour, examine the evidence, and uncover the truth — one ingredient, one beauty trend, and one disturbing historical story at a time.
Are you ready to discover what beauty was hiding? ☠️💄
Blog Series Issue 1: https://www.bandwapothecary.com/post/rouge-and-ruin-arsenic-beauty-wafers-the-deadly-promise-of-a-perfect-face
👇 Tell us in the comments: What's the most shocking beauty ingredient or historical beauty practice you've ever heard of?
Rouge and Ruin: Arsenic Beauty Wafers The Deadly Promise of a Perfect Face October 2026, Issue: 1A perfect complexion once came in a box of poison. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some beauty products promised transformation from the inside out. Among the most startling were arsenic complexion wafers: small tablets marketed to people seeking clearer, smoother, p...
09/27/2026
New soaps have dropped!!! On our website they are also now arranged a little different. Scents like Autumn Bramble, Fancy Pants Fig, and Pumpkin Spice Latte can now be found in Autumn Soaps. There is also a Specialty Soap section for those that need no fragrance, or formulas free of coconut oil or olive oil. Take a look around and let us know what you think!!!
We will be at Easthampton Farmers' Market tomorrow, Sunday August 22 from 10-2 and it will be pur last summer market. You will still be able to order online after. Come by and see us for any or you skincare ( cleanser, toner, serum, moisturizer, lip balm), hair care ( shampoo bar, conditioner bars, dry shampoo, hair Tonic, scalp elixir), body care (lotion, magnesium lotion, muscle balm, soap bars). Products are plant-based, aloe instead of water, formulated and made by Brandi, who is the person standing in the booth that you can actually meet and talk to if you need anything customized! This isn't just buying a product, it's building a relationship your skin, hair and body with benefit from. Stop by and say hi, ask questions, try testers!
Straining apricot kernel oil for something new coming soon!
Doing some testing! Here I have a sample from a batch of lotion. I use two vials because I keep one at room temperature and I stress one at a higher temp to see just how well the preservation system works in the incubator.
Rough night last night and this girl is tired but we are here at Easthampton Farmers' Market so come see us for your plant-based hair and skin needs!!!
08/07/2026
Explanation of the numbers on our soap packaging...
07/26/2026
All set up at Easthampton Farmers' Market from 10-2 today!! Come see us for your hair and skin needs!!! All products are plant-based goodness...
07/12/2026
Come see us today Easthampton Farmers' Market from 10am to 2pm!! So many great vendors with garm fresh produce, fresh baked goods, gluten free baked goods, handmade insense, local refinery and south more. Come on and get outside for some sun rays!!!
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