Episode
How Do They Do It?: Trombones, Wineskins, Peat Beauty Cream
Overview
How do they make a trombone? How do they make traditional Spanish wineskins? And, how do they turn smelly muddy peat into rejuvenating face cream?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2019-06-13
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Trombones, Wineskins, Peat Beauty Cream is Episode 2 in Season 16 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2019-06-13. The runtime is 22 min.
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