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World Service,2 mins

Hope in a jar?

The Food Chain

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Are foods that are claimed to have cosmetic benefits a recent phenomenon? Cosmetic historian and author, Madeleine Marsh, gives us a potted history of food and beauty. (Photo: Actresses Marie Fitzgerald and Sonia Watson in 1926. Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

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