Makeup as cosmetics is very old. Makeup surely has come a long way there is no questioning that, woman now get free deals from Clinique, Lancome and Estee Lauder gift with purchase 2012. Enough about makeup deals let’s learn about the history of makeup.
Three thousand years before Jesus Christ , the Egyptians already know the makeup : lipstick , kohl , eye makeup made from ore lead , of antimony and malachite . The caravans which carry the spices and silk in Europe , introduced cosmetics and makeup in Greece and the Roman Empire.
The i st century , Nero and Poppea thinned their skin with white lead and chalk , highlighted their eyes in kohl and enhanced their complexion and their lips with the red one .Women such as Cleopatra maquillaient lot, but the products of the time were mainly due to toxins such as metals, which destroyed the appearance of the skin and caused a premature aging of the latter.
It’s the return of the Crusaders that makeup is spreading in northern Europe where it was used for ritual paintings. From the xiii th century , nobles wear of foundation , to dyehair and perfume . At the xvi th century , women poudrent the white lead and the red ocher and color the lips with a mixture of tincture of cochineal. Eyes, unlike the ancient period, are never made up for not betraying the “mirror of the soul”.
From the xvii th century makeup is used in all social classes, the upper classes by using preciousness of cosmetics containing gold dust, silver, precious stones. The manuals of civility in the XVI th and XVII th century recommend not open his mouth, symbol of orality and animality, with bad teeth since the introduction of sugar in the West.Thus, make-up mouth fails in these centuries. The makeup made from metallic substances, borrowed from the arts of painting and miniature , continue to be very toxic, “sublimate of mercury” in the XVI th century, white lead , bismuth and tin ice for white makeup, mercuric sulfide ( cinnabar , vermilion of mercury) or minium for red makeup from the XVII th century.
The modern makeup was made popular by the film in the 1920s.
Until the beginning of xix th century cosmetics contain lead, modern products are manufactured and tested in laboratories with neutral products such as talc , the kaolin , therice starch to which are added to oils and dyes, synthetic.
Advances in cosmetic research led to the development of makeup and facial care without risk to health or the skin.
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