Flapper Friday -- How Did They Get That GLOW?

Glowing Gloria SwansonEver wonder how those classic Hollywood screen starlets got their glowing complexions? Why the leading men appeared so virile? 
Easy-peasy. Radioactivity!
Within two years of its discovery, doctors, inventors, and cosmetics companies were singing the praises of radium's healing properties and energy-boosting powers. It was called a "revolutionary beauty secret."


This ad for Radior Toilet Requisites from 1918 claims, "The tiniest particle of Radium throws off a stream o...