ceruse

The favoured makeup application was ceruse, a combination of vinegar and white lead.

No, we have ceruse and kiri, a very porous light Japanese wood."

For example, the book is the first to mention "ceruse", a mixture of white lead and vinegar used by wealthy women to whiten their skin.

In 1777 Johann Martin Schmidt began to produce white lead (ceruse).

Though in passing I must warn you against the use of ceruse: it may desiccate and wrinkle the deeper layers.

Venetian ceruse, 16th century white lead based cosmetic, also known as "Windows of Saturn"

Venetian Ceruse - white lead based cosmetic worn by Elizabeth I of England.

Throughout the 17th century and the Elizabethan era, women wore ceruse, a lethal mixture of vinegar and white lead.

He began to wash her face to remove the ceruse that Eve Graham's dresser had applied so liberally that morning.

CERUSE, cosmetic containing white lead.

Venetian Ceruse, also known as Spirits of Saturn, was a 16th-century cosmetic used as a skin whitener.

It was formerly used as an ingredient for lead paint and a cosmetic called Venetian Ceruse, because its opaque quality and the satiny smooth mixture it made with driable oils it made a good pigment.

Organic chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid have been used to etch metals and create products as early as 400 BCE, when vinegar was used to corrode lead and create the pigment ceruse, also known as white lead.

Refulgent gold, and silver thrice refin'd, And scarlet grain and ceruse, Indian wood Of lucid dye serene, fresh emeralds But newly broken, by the herbs and flowers Plac'd in that fair recess, in color all Had been surpass'd, as great surpasses less.