1480 Caterina Sforza's Face and Hand SalveA beauty serum from the "Lady of Forli"! Renaissance noblewoman, author, and alchemist; in her life's work Caterina Sforza left more the 450 recipes called her "Experiments". Her handwritten manuscripts, completed by the 1480s, were first published in 1525 as the Experimenti de la Ex. ma S. ra Caterina da Furlj. From these manuscripts we recreate a moisturizer for the hands and face. "A far bella" "To Make Beautiful" Made of natural fats that are

Fragrance notes: rose

Labdanum gives a rich sweetness of Mediterranean sunshine

It blends olive and laurel berry oils for a pure

Approximately 18" x 40"

It opens with fresh rose and cool iris

sweetened with herbs and flowers native to European gardens

published 1644

A showstopper color

Like the original

it became a treasured dye introduced from the New World during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign

herbaceous freshness

Variations appeared in European books of distillation for the next 500 years