You can read more of these beauty tips and recipes from The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green (University of Pennsylvanian Press, 2001. See also:
The Development of the Trotula
Exhuming Trotula, Sapiens Matrona of Salerno
From a Master to a Laywoman: A Feminine Manual of Self-Help
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution
Medieval Mean Girls: On Sexual Rivalry and the Uses of Cosmetics in La Celestina













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