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Renaissance Goo

Renaissance Goo

A historian of the body and a soft matter scientist experiment with Renaissance personal care recipes

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Radical goo

Reading Time: 4 minutes I was talking about the Goo project to A Publisher the other day. It was one of those conversations that you wish you could revise and resubmit. They (understandably) wanted to know what kind of audience I’d expect for a book of renaissance skincare recipes that also taught the reader about the fundamentals of soft […]

7 January 2022 0

What are ‘personal care’ recipes?

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Aren’t words troublesome at times? We hit on the term ‘personal care’ (despite it sounding like a slightly dodgy euphemism) because that’s the industry term for the kind of stuff you buy in a pharmacy that’s not medicine. Things like shampoo, deoderant, shower gel, moisturiser, but also including ‘colour’ cosmetics like blusher, mascara, lipstick. The […]

9 September 2021 0

About Renaissance Goo

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Renaissance Goo: Historic Personal Care Recipes and Soft Matter Science is a 2-year research project lasting from September 2021-August 2023 funded by a Royal Society Apex Award. This award allows Professor Jill Burke, a historian of the body, to work with Professor Wilson Poon, a soft-matter scientist to investigate early modern personal care recipes. The […]

8 September 2021 0

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