Roman skin cream news: we may soon be able to treat our skin like Roman women since a Roman skin cream has been reproduced, but we probably wouldn't want to put lead on our faces.
Roman women' beauty skin cream secrets revealed: says tin was used in this concoction in place of lead.

Here's my original post about the discovery of the Roman skin cream:
According to Reuters (via Yahoo News), archaeologists in London have found a sealed jar that contains an almost 2000 year old substance that they think was a Roman cosmetic cream.
'Roman Cosmetics' Found at London Temple Dig
MORE: Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Elsewhere: Plutarch
(Originally blogged July 28, 2003)