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 Cleopatra's relationship with Antony. George has stated that "they 'telescoped' it in the interest of time. They kept the psychology, and they kept the motivation. But they rearranged some things." She also added that she thinks "they did well considering that they had to condense things so much. My book has everything in it—her childhood, her children, her battle strategies. It's encyclopedic. But I think they have the spirit of it. They've preserved the essential psychology of it." The Memoirs of Cleopatra The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a 1997 historical fiction novel written by American author Margaret George, detailing the