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Aristocratic Victorian women swallowed a mixture of vinegar, chalk, and arsenic trioxide to make themselves look more pale - to show that they didn't have to work in the fields like the commoners. Arsenic was also rubbed into the faces and arms of women to "improve their complexion".

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