Beauty creams then and now – the same — There is a joke here someplace.

PARIS, Nov 3 (AFP) – Beauty creams used by the ladies of ancient Rome were not far different from those applied to today’s fair kins, to judge by a discovery in the remains of a Roman temple in London dating from the second century AD.Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide.

Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say the unguent “shares some surprising features with modern moisturising creams.”