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) diadem. And when one that came in said angrily, "Was this well done of your lady, Charmion?" "Extremely well," she answered, "and as became the descendant of so many kings"; and as she said this, she fell down dead by the bedside. Charmion has been dramatized numerous times alongside Cleopatra, most notably in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra" (as "Charmian" or ). Shakespeare's final line for Charmian derives from Plutarch. It is well done, and fitting for a princess<br> Descended of so many royal kings. A lost 1917 silent film "Cleopatra" featured Dorothy Drake as Charmian, and Eleanor Phelps