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Recent Examples of unguentAll the perfumed unguents and performative rituals of fame are present.—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025 The team is now working to recreate mummy scents so that museum visitors in Egypt and Slovenia can have the opportunity to sniff the unguents used in embalming or the odor of aging wooden sarcophagi—aromas that are otherwise trapped in time or within a museum case.—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025 Embalmers had different recipes for preparing and preserving bodies depending on the era; the budget; the level of nobility and gender of the deceased; and the availability of ingredients such as plant resins, oils and other unguents that could preserve and perfume the remains.—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025 The first was molecules from embalming ingredients such as oils, waxes and unguents.—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025 TikTok has its Get Ready With Mes, where influencers chat over their plethora of skin-nourishing unguents and artful makeup products.—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024 Nevertheless, our ancestors had some inkling that different substances, when applied as ointments, unguents, or pastes, could protect or heal skin from a range of injuries, including sun damage.—Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 But the notion of an alien worm producing its own mind-melting unguent doesn’t seem especially bonkers.—Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024 But the institutional gangrene to which Levin draws attention seems to me to go beyond what the unguents in our current chrismatories can heal.—Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
Apart from religiously following skincare regimen, medical beauty devices help enhance the efficacy of serums, lotions, and creams.
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Bianca Salonga,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
As in, liquid blush is topped with powder blush; contour stick is topped with bronzer, and face powder is used both immediately after applying cream products and to finish it all off later.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
4 July 2025
Aesop’s amber bottles are unmistakably ubiquitous, whether for soap, lotion, or mouthwash.
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Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
24 June 2025
Bath & Body Works: Make your shower even more luxurious with sweet-smelling body washes, buttery lotions, and exfoliating scrubs that cost as little as $2.
The finals, at least, were supposed to be a salve from that.
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Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
Going back again and again to that panicked night shift when the bleeding patient died under my hands was an unexpected salve for the unforgiving finality of the actual events.
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