and beauty products from health products. The Museum’s collection of skin care products shows how Americans have defined beautiful, healthy skin from the 1800s through the present. Many of these ...

The realm of plastic surgery has always been subject to the ever-shifting currents of beauty ideals. Each period emerges with its own distinctive preferences as time unfolds its tapestry ...

It’s a familiar story. Standards of beauty have been embedded in different cultures, in varying forms, from time immemorial. The standards that women and, increasingly, all people are expected ...