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
Charmion (servant to Cleopatra) Charmion (servant to Cleopatra) Charmion (; ), alternatively Charmian, was a trusted servant and advisor to Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Contrary to what is generally believed, Plutarch in his "Life of Antony" writes that Charmion managed the principal affairs of Cleopatra's government therefore, she held an important position in Cleopatra's trusted circle. In his "Parallel Lives" biography of Mark Antony, Plutarch noted that Augustus Caesar "had a decree made, declaring war on Cleopatra, and depriving Antony of the authority which he had let a woman exercise in his place. Caesar added that [Antony] had drunk potions that had bereaved him