If you reckon modern hair bleach is strong stuff, wait ’til you hear this. Back in Elizabethan times, women used pee to lighten their hair. The ammonia in the urine helped to bleach it, getting them that sought-after lighter shade.

They’d soak their hair in urine and let the sun do its thing. They might’ve got the look, but the method’s unthinkable today. Then again, beauty took some right weird sacrifices back then.

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