2. A brief history of slimming products
If you're interested in the history of cosmetics, it's easy to see from ancient documents that the vast majority of products have been known and used since Antiquity. Body hygiene products, and oral hygiene products used to prevent darkening of the teeth, for example, were recommended by the poet Ovid in his work L'art d'aimer, published at the very beginning of our era
. A little less than a century later, Pliny the Elder suggested topical preparations to combat stretch marks
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