Archaeologists Clean Dirty Monuments With Face Packs

Makarand writes "According to this article on indiaExpress.com archaeologists at the world famous Taj Mahal (Agra, India) are using a face-pack consisting of soil, cereal, milk and lime to beautify the monument. This recipe called 'Multani Mitti', which translates as 'mud from Multan,' is based on a beauty formula from the 16th century and contains lime-rich clay found in Multan (now a part of Pakistan) which was used for thousands of years as a face-pack by Indian women. The sticky brown mixture is smeared on the pollution-stained marble surfaces of the monument and washed off with warm water after 24 hours. Scientists from Italy have shown interest in these face-packs to restore their marble statues. The BBC News article says the same thing but has pictures."

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Re:Watch out for the lawyers...

[pamri]

WTO/WIPO has a provision for countries to patent their products/processes, which are unique to a particular region. If a country fails to patent such a thing(french champagne, medicianal properties of turmeric acc to ayurvedi system, multaani mitti, etc.,). We screwed up only in patenting Basmati Rice, but we are now better prepared to handle unchecked capitalism of the 'texas' variety. ;-)

To be on-topic: Multani-Mitti is a safe, cool(literally) & great way to get rid of those pesky pimples. Heres one such treatment.