Quite a few fierce feline females have used milk baths for a couple thousand years.
" Lactose is present in the milk of mammals. Milk
leaves the skin feeling silky smooth with a hydrated appearance. An
effective and softening skin cleanser. Milk proteins smooth, firm and soften
the skin. Milk is high in hydrophilic (water) and lipophilic (fat) factors and
has beneficial vitamins and sugars. It has excellent nutritive value, is
packed with proteins, beneficial fats, vitamins, amino acids and calcium. It
is easily absorbed into the skin. Milk has a long standing in beauty history.
Many of the historic beauties testified to milks effectiveness with their
faithful use of milk in their beauty regime. Cleopatra took aromatic milk
baths, Emperor Nero's wife Poppea bathed in milk and even Marie
Antoinette used buttermilk to prevent wrinkles. The "new" alpha hydroxy
acid skin treatments are simply made up of lactic acid (milk), citric acid,
glycolic, malic, and tartaric acids. These treatments are not new at all.
Cleopatra's famous milk baths contained lactic acid, which removed the
upper layer of the skin to revel smooth, new skin. "