Amnesty International reports that one woman dies every 90 seconds in pregnancy or childbirth around the world. That's more than 350,000 women every year, though the vast majority of these deaths are preventable.
Women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators as beauty products.
Makeup, then, usually came in tablet or cake form and was sold at marketplaces. The medium used to bind the pigments together was the fat of the animals fighting in the arena, and/or gladiator sweat sold in souvenir pots outside of the games.
The sweat was carefully captured by means of a strigil and the oily sweaty mixture known as strigmentum bottle up for cosmetics use and as aphrodisiac. The virility of the gladiator appealed to the ladies, and the more successful a gladiator was, the more likely his sweat was in demand.
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