Cosmetics

The history of cosmetics

4000 BC The Egyptians

 Perfumed oils
 Painted eyebrows
 Cream made from sheep’s fat
The East 1500 BC

 Rice powder
 Shaved eyebrows
 Painted teeth
1000 BC Greece

 A wig
 Real white-chalk, face powder
 Little colour-ochre clays, red
iron
100 AD Rome

 Barley flour and butter

 Sheep’s fat and blood
 Mud and crocodile excrement
14 Century

 Regarded as a health threat

 Egg whites
 Slices of raw beef
15th-16th Centuries

 Aristocracy
 Laborious process
-producing modern cosmetics
-arsenic kill wearer more faster
17th-18th Centuries

 Health, wealth, gayety (fun)

 Used by all classes of society
- except the poorest classes
19th Century

 Chemical processes
 Zinc oxide
 Poisonous substances