Milk bath 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 the proteins which hold together dead skin cells. There are legends that Cleopatra bathed in donkey milk daily for her complexion. These legends have not been confirmed and some historians believe that Roman Empress Poppaea set this bathing fashion after Cleopatra's death. Queens Catherine Parr and later Elizabeth I of England used milk baths to make their skin appear more youthful and
Cleopatra Wong rather uncharitably that she was "Cleopatra Wrong". In 2000, the Cleopatra Wong franchise was held by Cleopatra Wong International, a company founded by Raphaël Millet and former actress Doris Young (a.k.a. Marrie Lee) and incorporated in Singapore, in order both to preserve the heritage of the character and to revive it. Cleopatra Wong Cleopatra Wong is a fictional character created in 1978 by Filipino filmmaker and producer Bobby A. Suarez, who featured her in three feature-length movies: "They Call Her Cleopatra Wong" in 1978, "Dynamite Johnson" (a.k.a. "Bionic Boy II") in 1979, and "Devil’s Angels" (a.k.a. "Devil’s Three") in 1980.