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During the exposition, the authors often quote the mulieres salernitanae to be taken as an authoritative model.

She gives lessons about make-up, suggests the way to be unwrinkled, remove puffiness of face and eyes, remove unwanted hair from the body, lighten the skin, hide blemishes and freckles, wash teeth and take away bad breath, dying hairs, wax, treat lips and gums chaps.

Therefore, she provided indications to formulate and use ointment and medicative herbs for the face and the hair and she dispensed advices about improving health through vapour baths and massages.

This was not a giddy aspect in her texts: on the contrary, according to what Trotula women ’ s beauty has to do with philosophy of the nature, her medical art was inspired to: beauty is the sign of a healthy body and harmony with the universe.