Who invented foundation makeup

And to learn what ingredients are in lipstick today, check out the video. All men and women in ancient Egypt painted their eyes with black and green powders. In addition to protecting them from the sun, this makeup was believed to protect the wearer from illness. And in a way, it actually might have. Had they lived as long as many people do today, the prolonged exposure to lead would probably have caused health problems, as epidemiologist Jennifer Weuve told Science. Women in the Roman Empire used lead makeup to whiten their faces , and in the 16th century, English nobles did pretty much the same thing.

One of the most famous figures to use lead makeup was Queen Elizabeth I, who used it to cover her smallpox scars. This mixture of lead and vinegar that Elizabeth used was known as Venetian ceruse, or the spirits of Saturn.

In the late 19th century, U. This video is part of a series called Ingredients. Each week, host George Zaidan re-creates household products like toothpaste, lipstick, or shaving cream using only natural ingredients.

All rights reserved. Share Tweet Email. Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants. This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city. Their favorite colors were black, green and purple. The use of cosmetics to enhance complexion has been known since antiquity. Ancient Egyptians used foundation. In B. It was considered fashionable for Greek women to have a pale complexion.

Roman women also favoured a pale complexion. Wealthy Romans favoured white lead paste, which could lead to disfigurements and death. Men also wore makeup to lighten their skin tone. The cream was made from animal fat, starch, and tin oxide. Tin oxide was made out of heating tin metal in open air. The animal fat provided a smooth texture, while the tin oxide provided color to the cream. Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, it was considered fashionable for women to have pale skin, due to the association of tanned skin with outdoors work, and therefore the association of pale skin with affluence.

In the 6th century, women would often bleed themselves to achieve a pale complexion. Throughout the 17th century and the Elizabethan era, women wore ceruse, a lethal mixture of vinegar and white lead. They also applied egg whites to their faces to create a shiny complexion. In the 18th century, Louis XV made it fashionable for men to wear lead-based makeup. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Victorian women wore little or no makeup.

Queen Victoria abhorred make-up and deemed that it was only appropriate for prostitutes and loose women to wear it. It was only acceptable for actors or actresses to wear make-up. In the late 19th century, women would apply a whitening mixture made out of zinc oxide, mercury, lead, nitrate of silver, and acids. Some women stayed out of the sun, ate chalk, and drank iodine to achieve whiteness. In the Edwardian era, women wore base and did not bleach their skin as much as they did in previous centuries.

He is the inventor of greasepaint. He wanted to conceal the joint between his wig and forehead, so he developed a flesh-coloured paste made of zinc, ochre and lard. This formulation was so popular with other actors that Baudin began producing it commercially, and, as such, gave birth to the first theatrical makeup. And though women today might like to joke about how they suffer for beauty, women who used the lead-based ceruse often ended up with muscle paralysis or in their graves.

At the dawn of the 20th century though, products that we'd recognize today -- lipsticks, mascaras and nail polishes -- began to emerge. On the next page, we'll examine the birth of the modern-day makeup industry.

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