milk bath

Cleopatra's beauty treatment

A milk bath is a bath in which milk has been added to the water, valued for its purported skin-softening properties.

The practice dates to antiquity—Cleopatra famously bathed in donkey's milk.

Modern milk baths typically use powdered milk or milk-based bath products.

In photography, milk bath refers to a style of portrait photography where the subject is partially submerged in milky white water, creating an ethereal, soft aesthetic.

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Immersion in corrosive liquid

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Unwelcome sobering experience

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skin treatment effect

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G