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
The Memoirs of Cleopatra her as "flighty". George said, "She was obviously very appealing but not this bimbo that the Romans would like you to think she was." The finished novel was 964 pages; George describes this as "big, but it's not padded." By 1997, George was a successful author who had published popular historical novels about Henry VIII of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. Assuming her latest novel would also be popular, St. Martin's Press ordered 200,000 copies. "The Memoirs of Cleopatra" was published by St. Martin's Press in March 1997. George launched a national book tour in April, and it landed