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HOPE JAR IN A • • •T h e M a k i n g o f A m e r i c a’ s B e a u t y C u l t u r e • • k at h y pe i s s University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 1998 by Kathy Peiss First University of Pennsylvania Press edition 2011. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-0-8122-2167-1 The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peiss, Kathy Lee. Hope in a jar : the making of America’s beauty culture / Kathy Peiss. — 1st American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Beauty culture—United States—History. 2. Cosmetics—United States—History. I. Title. TT957.P45 1998 391.6´3´0973—dc21 97-42706 CIP designed by kate nichols Disclaimer: Cosmetics recipes as described herein are given for historical and reference purposes only, and may cause skin, eye, and other injuries. In no way should the reader attempt to create, mix, apply, or ingest any of the recipes. Frontispiece: Helena Rubenstein, around 1920

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Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998. How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take

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HOPE JAR IN A • • •T h e M a k i n g o f A m e r i c a’ s B e a u t y C u l t u r e • • k at h y pe i s s University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 1998 by Kathy Peiss First University of Pennsylvania Press edition 2011. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-0-8122-2167-1 The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peiss, Kathy Lee. Hope in a jar : the making of America’s beauty culture / Kathy Peiss. — 1st American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Beauty culture—United States—History. 2. Cosmetics—United States—History. I. Title. TT957.P45 1998 391.6´3´0973—dc21 97-42706 CIP designed by kate nichols Disclaimer: Cosmetics recipes as described herein are given for historical and reference purposes only, and may cause skin, eye, and other injuries. In no way should the reader attempt to create, mix, apply, or ingest any of the recipes. Frontispiece: Helena Rubenstein, around 1920

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Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998. How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take

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