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2. The Power of Queen Nefertiti's Eyeliner - AOL

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   Ancient Egyptian portraiture often showed men with red-brown skin and women with yellow-white skin to distinguish the genders. By that logic, the pigment used on Nefertiti’s bust was closer to ...

3. Beauty and cosmetics in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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   The ancient Egyptians created a remedy for burns by mixing the cheek and lip stain with red natron, northern salt, and honey. [9] The Ebers Papyrus, a collection of Egyptian medical recipes dating to circa 1550 BC, shows the usual galena pigment could also be combined with specific ingredients to create eye paints that were intended to treat eye infection. [10]

4. Kohl (cosmetics) - Wikipedia

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   Kohl has been worn traditionally since the Naqada III era (c. 3100 BCE) by Egyptians of all social classes, originally as protection against eye ailments. [1] [2] There was also a belief that darkening around the eyes would protect one from the harsh rays of the sun. [3] Ancient Egyptian women wearing kohl, from a tomb mural in Thebes (1420 ...

5. History of cosmetics - Wikipedia

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   The use of black kohl eyeliner and eyeshadows in dark colours such as blue, red, and black was common, and was commonly recorded and represented in Egyptian art, as well as being seen in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Ancient Egyptians also extracted cosmetic face paint from fucus-algin, 0.01% iodine, and bromine mannite, however the bromine-based ...

6. 15 best-selling beauty products you probably didn’t know were ...

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   "Based on the ancient Egyptian formula that Cleopatra used to keep her skin healthy and glowing, Egyptian Magic Skin Cream has become beauty’s most magical secret," according to the brand.

7. Eye liner - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian women and men wearing kohl eye liner, from the tomb of Nakht in Thebes (15th century BC). Eye liner was first used in ancient India, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as a dark black line around the eyes. As early as 10,000 BC, Egyptians and Mesopotamians wore eye liner not only for aesthetics but to protect the skin from the ...

8. Clothing in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian cosmetic set from c. 1550–1458 BC, featuring, from left to right, a kohl tube, a razor, a pair of tweezers, a whetstone, and a mirror 18th Dynasty sandals, circa 1390–1352 BCE Cosmetics

9. 5,000-year-old wine hidden in hundreds of jars at Egyptian ...

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   The discovery supports the hypothesis that Queen Meret-Neith was ancient Egypt’s first female pharaoh. 5,000-year-old wine hidden in hundreds of jars at Egyptian queen’s tomb. Take a look