The most beautiful woman on earth … The secrets of the Pharaonic women with “Kohl and Rouge.”
From the women of Egypt, beauty returns to them. I am not indicative of the touches of “fashion” more than adorning the walls of the tombs and temples of the ancient Egyptians so that history proves that it is from the land of Egypt that the cries of “New Look” everything related to cosmetics began.
Four thousand years ago, some Egyptian women made their way to the world of powders and cosmetics, starting with the “comb”, which represented the most important cosmetic tools and was made of bone or ivory, and consisted of two narrow teeth to clean the hair from insects and a wide one for beautification.
Pharaonic fashion
“Magdy Shaker – Chief Archaeologist” spoke about the story of women’s beautification thousands of years ago, explaining that “Pharaonic fashion” was affected by women’s adornment with the shapes of birds and plants. Women even used a mirror made of bronze with a hand in the shape of a bird or animal.
From the comb and the mirror, the women of Egypt made a great leap by using the “wig”, or wigs, hair extensions, and hair dye with henna to hide grey hair. But the surprise remains that they knew hairspray from greasy substances.
The secret of pomegranate peel
“Powder” was also not lost on the beauty scene among women in ancient Egypt. They resorted to grinding talcum stone to use it to lighten the skin of the face. They knew red lip polish, and it was made of fat with the colour of some plants, such as pomegranate peel, and it was applied with a brush on the lips, and I knew that cheeks were coloured red and made from fat and a little resin gum.
Beauty stations in ancient Egypt did not stop there; Rather, they extended to the “mask”, and here the woman took care of her skin to preserve the freshness of her face, and she made all-natural masks from the Nile silt, honey, fenugreek and chamomile oil.
The “Pharaonic hairdresser represents a new surprise”. Over the years, there has become a hairdresser who cleans and straightens it and creates the latest haircuts and hairdos.
Lotus perfumes
Besides “makeup”, perfumes made their way to the ancient Egyptian people. Besides the priests’ use of it in temples and rituals, housewives used it daily in perfuming homes, and because of the frequent use of ancient lotus flower perfumes, the Egyptians were famous as “a clean people who loved beauty.” Alexandria was the capital of light, art, beauty, perfumes and its trade before Paris became the capital of perfumery.
The second surprise was that some of the oils used for perfumes were so strong that even 3,300 years after Tutankhamun’s death, it was possible to discover a trace of perfume emanating from ointments in tightly sealed flasks when the grave was opened. Perfumes were used during the mummification process.
Decorate the eye
Concerning the kohl, it was invented by the ancient Egyptians, the period from 3500 – 4000 BC, and the Egyptian monuments appeared in the eyes of the deity (Ra) amazingly defined. It was also used to decorate the eyes of kings. With a mineral called galena, it produces black paste. ”
The eyes of some ancient Egyptians appeared decorated with green kohl, which is the result of mixing alabaster. Women believed in the past that alabaster was presented to them by the gods Hathor, “the goddess of love,” which is used with galena and contains copper oxide, silicon, talc, almond peel powder and the fat of some animals such as cows.