{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Loreplay","title":"Drop Dead Gorgeous","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7d778c31\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2210,"description":"Last week was heavy, so this week we’re lightening the mood with… centuries of people poisoning themselves to look hot. Seeee? FUN.\nDayna digs into the long, gorgeous, deeply unhinged history of beauty and fashion that tried to kill the people wearing it. There’s lead foundation in shades of Corpse and Slightly More Expensive Ghost, arsenic pills sold as “absolutely safe and harmless,” eye drops made from deadly nightshade, and X-ray salons that zapped women’s upper lips. There’s French face cream made with radium. And the men don’t get off easy: mercury-poisoned hatters, collars that strangled grown men, shaving brushes that carried anthrax, and a Pittsburgh millionaire who drank radium water until his jaw came off. Along the way we meet the women who paid the real price: a 19-year-old flower-maker poisoned by the green dye on the flowers she made, and the Radium Girls who fought back while they were dying. \nDark, funny and fact-checked. Read your ingredient labels, lore lovers.\nSources\nSmithsonian National Museum of American History, Dr. James P. Campbell’s Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_1339217\nSmithsonian Magazine, “Three Horrifying Pre-FDA Cosmetics”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-horrifying-pre-fda-cosmetics-180963775/\nThe Quack Doctor, Dr MacKenzie’s Arsenic Complexion Wafers: https://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/dr-mackenzies-improved-harmless-arsenic-complexion-wafers\nCosmetics and Skin, Lash Lure: https://cosmeticsandskin.com/bcb/lash-lure.php\nMuseum of Quackery, The Tricho System: https://www.museumofquackery.com/ephemera/tricho.htm\nIMSS, X-Ray Hair Removal: https://imss.org/?p=9439\nWikipedia, Tho-Radia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tho-Radia\nRipley’s, The Radium Girls: https://www.ripleys.com/stories/radium-girls\nWikipedia, Eben Byers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers\nWikipedia, Radithor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor\nCDC Emerging Infectious Diseases, “Anthrax Cases Associated with...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qrKRCVgS-SidSX8b9CGzZDHhnpF4bwxZyw2FLc5pukw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MTBl/MDI3MGZkZGE0M2U0/MmJlYjhmNGQ4NjAy/NmY0Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}