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[Definition]

https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/it-cosmetic-drug-or-both-or-it-soap

[Trivia Question]

Carthamus tinctorius L

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8126054/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263051/

[Fact Off]

Vultures painting themselves red

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19076-zoologger-vultures-use-twigs-to-gather-wool-for-nests/

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.1840

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130980-vultures-smear-their-faces-in-red-mud-which-they-use-as-makeup/

https://www.audubon.org/news/these-birds-wear-makeup

WWII nylon-replacing liquid leg makeup

https://books.google.com/books?id=OygDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_765873

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/nylon-a-revolution-in-textiles

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-nylon-stockings-changed-world-180955219/

http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/ded/liquid-powder.php  

[Ask the Science Couch]

Dangerous cosmetics (lead, radium, atropine) 

https://books.google.com/books?id=A3C_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=LpplCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT67&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/

https://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/glowing-complexion.php

https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/belladonna.shtml

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-8614-99/atropine-ophthalmic-eye/atropine-sulfate-ophthalmic/details

[Butt One More Thing]

Butt hair forensics

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/AY/D0AY01068E

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128119082/coronary-artery-disease

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communications/fsc/april2009/review/2009_04_review02.htm#racebodyid

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