Milk bath

[2] Queens Catherine Parr and later Elizabeth I of England bathed in milk in the belief that it would make their skin appear more youthful and pale.

[5] There are references to cows milk as a bath technique found in India in the 19th century in "Fifty-one years of Victorian life" by Margaret Elizabeth Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey.

[6] In the early 20th century, singer and Broadway star Anna Held was reported to bathe in milk daily.

She was later quoted as having bathed in milk two times a week when living in Paris, finding it difficult to do so while traveling.

[8] According to scholars, milk baths were used "as a recipe for beauty", as well as for healing, rejuvenation and disenchantment.