Donkey milk even exist). In addition, the flavour and appearance of donkey milk have been found to be attractive to children. Equid (donkey and horse) milk can be considered a suitable substrate for probiotic beverage production. The use of fermented equid milk is an ancient tradition in central Asia, like koumiss or airag, a fermented mares milk very popular in Asia and Russia; but there are also traditional variants made from donkey milk. In Mongolia, where koumiss is the national drink, people have a saying that ‘kumys cures 40 diseases’. It is said that Cleopatra, Queen of Ancient Egypt, took baths in
Milk bath so while traveling. Her husband Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. later reported to the press that she bathed in milk daily and set up photo shoots so that reporters could photograph the milk being delivered to her. A buttermilk bath was also a common historical bathing technique for show animals and remains to be in practice today (such as pigs and dogs). Mandatory Optional Milk bath A milk bath is a bath taken in milk instead of water. Often other scents such as honey, rose, lavender and essential oils are added. Milk baths use lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid, to dissolve