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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]
Cosmetic palettes are archaeological artifacts, originally used in predynastic Egypt to grind and apply ingredients for facial or body cosmetics. The decorative palettes of the late 4th millennium BCE appear to have lost this function and became commemorative, ornamental, and possibly ceremonial.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo Hunters Palette: 30.5 x 15 cm (12 x 6 in) British Museum (smaller fragment in Louvre) Libyan Palette (original, approximated: 70 x 25 cm) (ht x width) Egyptian Museum, Cairo (surviving dimensions: ~18.5 x ~21 cm, (7 x 8 in)) (ht x width) Min Palette El Amrah Palette – Narmer Palette Great Hierakonpolis Palette: 64 x 42 cm
Both sexes used cosmetics throughout the pre-Islamic Near East, going back to the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, and Iran. [13] Eye makeup in the form of kohl, were used in Persia and what today is Iran from ancient periods. [14] Kohl is a black powder that was used widely across the Persian Empire.
Kohl powder A fourth-century CE double cosmetic tube for kohl from Egypt, in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Kohl is an eye cosmetic, traditionally made by crushing stibnite for use similar to that of charcoal in mascara.
As early as 4000 BC, makeup played an important role in ancient Egyptian culture. Men painted black pigments on their eyes to create cat-eye designs that were considered attractive and a symbol of wealth and status. [1] Ancient Egyptians believed that green eye shadow could invoke the god Horus to fight harmful diseases. [1]
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The oldest cosmetic palettes from the Badarian, or Naqada I period are less adorned than later versions; also some gradation of ornateness should be considered for graves and tombs of less high-status individuals being interred, as these were common forms of grave goods during the Naqada periods.