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10 Ancient Beauty Secrets That Are Useful Even Today

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Long before serums and derma-rollers, women were exfoliating with sugar and moisturizing with olive oil — and dermatologists still can’t argue with the results.

TheThings Celebrity’s rundown, “10 Ancient Beauty Secrets That Are Useful Even Today,” strips modern skincare back to its roots, tracing routines from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and South Asia that predate every serum bottle on a Sephora shelf. The video argues that the ingredients women reached for thousands of years ago — olive oil, milk, honey, rose water, henna, even boiled sugar — still hold up against contemporary dermatological science. No lab-formulated compound necessary; just a pantry and a few thousand years of trial and error.

• Ancient Greeks and Egyptians relied on olive oil as a full-body beauty elixir, prized for its antioxidants and fatty acids that hydrate skin and repair hair.
• Cleopatra’s skincare regimen reportedly centered on milk baths for lactic-acid exfoliation paired with honey for moisture and its natural antibacterial effect.
• Ancient Egyptians pioneered “sugaring” — a boiled paste of sugar, lemon, and water — as a hair-removal method that predates modern waxing by millennia.

Olive Oil as the Original Multitasker

The video opens with the ingredient that shows up in nearly every ancient beauty ritual across the Mediterranean: olive oil. Greeks and Egyptians alike used it as a moisturizer, a hair treatment, and a general skin elixir, and the reasoning tracks with what dermatologists still say today — it’s dense in antioxidants and fatty acids that lock moisture into skin and repair damaged hair strands. The video frames it as the closest thing the ancient world had to an all-purpose beauty product, something you could rub into dry elbows or work through brittle ends with equal effect.

Cleopatra’s Milk-and-Honey Routine

No ancient beauty figure gets more screen time than Cleopatra, and the video leans into her signature ritual: milk baths. The lactic acid in milk works as a gentle exfoliant, sloughing off dead skin cells without the harshness of a modern chemical peel. Paired with that, honey served as her moisturizer of choice — a natural humectant that also carries antibacterial properties, making it useful for calming irritated or blemished skin long before anyone had heard of benzoyl peroxide.

Milk baths for exfoliation, honey for moisture — Cleopatra’s routine reads less like myth and more like a modern derm’s ingredient list.

Rose Water and Henna’s Dual Purpose

The video shifts to rose water, a staple used to tone skin and calm irritation across ancient beauty traditions. It functions as a mild astringent, something still bottled and sold in skincare aisles today under fancier packaging. Henna gets similar treatment — Egyptian and Indian women used the leaves not just for temporary hair color but for strengthening strands, a dual-purpose remedy that modern henna-based hair treatments still market on the same claims.

Sugaring: Ancient Egypt’s Hair-Removal Hack

Perhaps the most surprising callback in the video is sugaring — a simple mixture of boiled sugar, lemon, and water that ancient Egyptians used for body hair removal. It’s a method that has quietly resurfaced in modern spas as a “natural” alternative to waxing, proof that some of these fixes never actually left, they just went dormant for a few thousand years before coming back into fashion.

What ties the whole video together is the contrast it draws between these low-tech, pantry-shelf remedies and the ingredient lists on today’s commercial cosmetics — the kind of comparison that tends to make viewers reach for olive oil next time they’re out of moisturizer. For anyone tracking how old routines keep resurfacing in new packaging, it’s worth pairing this one with What Was Living In The Playboy Mansion Really Like? or The Most Expensive Royal Wedding Dresses for more on how beauty and luxury standards have shifted — and, in this case, circled right back.