Bust of Queen Nefertiti. Egyptian Museum in Berlin, Germany. In his time, Nefertiti was considered among his conteporaneos as an icon of beauty. The meaning of his name says it all: "Beauty has come."
Women have always an obsession that has not mutated since the beginning of time. Maintaining the beauty and eternal youth.
Join me to explore and discover the secrets used by women in ancient Egypt to fulfill this dream primal feminine.
From the very beginning of Egyptian civilization, women were careful and did everything possible to get the latest discovery to enable them to always look beautiful and young.
A good example of the beauty of Egyptian women have been for many years, the polychrome bust of Nefertiti found in the Egyptian city of Amarna in 1912.
When assessing the bust of the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten more importate of the XVIII dynasty, we can realize the concerns that were female, compared to the beauty care. For example, we see through this representation that Egyptian women used since that time and lipstick, but its use should be made cautiously, because lips are painted could confuse them with the world's oldest workers.
In these times, it was standard among high-class women use a wide range of creams and ointments to prevent wrinkles and tighten skin, so that you always see young and radiant.
In the famous Ebers medical papyrus are a large number of promising recipes amazing results to the women who use it.
Mural depicting a high-class woman, I combed through his personal hairdresser "incense, beeswax, olive oil and fresh pine needles. Crushes, crushes, inside fresh milk and apply on face for six days. You see the result! "(Ebers papyrus)
Another recipe to keep the youth of the face:" Gum turpentine, 1 part, wax, 1 part; ben oil 1 part fresh, edible calamus, part 1. Mash well and put it in the mucilage. Apply every day. Then you'll see! "
"another remedy for the meat surface becomes perfect, 1 part alabaster powder, 1 part of natron, 1 part sea salt, 1 part honey. Mix and apply rubbing on the skin (Ebers 715) This last recipe function was to make the face look as straight as possible and thus make the skin young again see.
addition to all these beauty creams, women wore eye shadow and eyelashes, as recognized KHOL, dust to enhance the lines of the eyes, which will become a hallmark of Egyptian imagery.
Dancers. Thebes, tomb of Nebamón (XVIII din) If you look at the heads of these women, we can see some cones. These cones was one of the ways women used perfumes.
These shadows, besides being used for fashion, served as protection from the sun in a hot environment such as the Egyptian.
But despite what we believe, due to high temperatures, the Egyptian civilization became one of the most hygienic of antiquity, creating a number of products and behaviors that are based on our current cult of cleanliness.
For example, the Egyptians were the first men they used deodorant in antiquity, based on a mixture of turpentine, incense and some perfumes that rubbed against the body to hide the odor. Women also use these products, also pluck a large part of the body. Every other day, as we consider the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived some time between them.
But believe it or not, in Egyptian society, not only women were no strangers to beauty products. Have also been found in the Ebers papyrus, recipes for men. Highlights including a recipe, since that time has tried to solve a problem that has troubled men today. Baldness. Deputy
the recipe in case any reader wants to take risks. Who knows! Perhaps it might be.
Recipe to grow the hair of a bald person: fat of a lion, hippopotamus fat, fat crocodile, fat cat, fat snake, goat fat. Prepare a dough. And spread to her head the bald. " (Ebers papyrus)
