Does bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries sound sumptuously sticky?
Madame Talien, who was a social figure during the French Revolution, kept her complexion radiant with this messy method of washing.
Twenty-two pounds of crushed strawberries made up the bathwater that went into her tub. Vive strawberry bath gel and vintage postcards!
She was arrested and jailed for being the wife of an aristocrat. She flirted her way out of the guillotine, divorced, and then became a champion for Liberalism. Strawberries saved her scented neck!
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