Secrets of female beauty at different times

Female beauty is not only a gift of nature, it is also a thorough "work" on yourself and your body. Each era dictates its own standards and standards. Sometimes, in pursuit of the ideal, women made unbelievable sacrifices. Today, experts discover more and more beauty secrets of different eras and nations.

• Many useful recipes and tips for skin and hair care have come to us from ancient Egypt. The dressing tables of the legendary queens (Nefertiti, Cleopatra) were perfumed with incense, oils, alabaster powder boxes, nail paint cans, and tweezers to remove body hair. The legendary queen Cleopatra did not have natural beauty, but was desirable for many famous men of that era. She welcomed only natural remedies: mixed fresh cream (or honey) with salt as a body scrub, took baths of donkey milk, and used raw eggs instead of shampoos.

• A few centuries later, female beauty began to be cultivated in China, India and Japan. To care for the skin, women in these countries used balsams and herbal extracts (tansy, tuberose), amber incense, rose water and almond milk. Japan, ahead of many countries, invented make-up and bath. In the latter, women literally boiled for the sake of improving health and prolonging youth. China presented modern women with nail polish and mascara. In addition, the Chinese have invented a unique female shoe size. For this, little girls were tightly bandaged with foot bandages. Ligation could not be removed until the legs turned into "golden lotuses". However, such "lotuses" were by no means excellent: they had an unpleasant smell, their skin rotted and could not be cleansed.

• Modern women are trying to sunbathe more often, visit tanning salons. Romans and Greek women, on the contrary, tried to lighten the skin. To do this, they prepared a special cream of bread flesh and milk, boiled soap from beech wood ash and goat fat. For rejuvenation, European women of that era were washing with milk and practicing massage using almond or wheat oil.

• The heyday of body culture occurred in the Renaissance. Venetian women have become famous for their gorgeous hairstyles. They dyed their hair in various shades of red, mixing natural pigments (henna, ocher) with wine. In France, noble ladies used silver baths for bathing. It was believed that water, touching silver, acquires magical qualities - strengthens and rejuvenates the female body. France also became famous for the invention of heeled shoes, which were designed to train an elegant, graceful gait, and corsets to create a thin waist. But the first unsuccessful experiments led to the development of pathologies of internal organs.

• The consequences of the plague and the lack of hygiene in the XVIII century affected the external state of the female skin. But the fashion of that time demanded a perfect white and pure face. For this, women used lead powder. She perfectly hid skin defects, but her long use attracted a brain tumor, paralysis ...

• In the 19th century, women used arsenic to make their bodies and bodies shine. But, despite the observance of the rules of administration and dosages, the substance accumulated in the female body, caused diseases, and in some cases death.

• This "cosmetic revolution" occurred in the XX century, since the invention of cinema. A close camera required careful skin care and make-up. Therefore, many technologies have been improved. Cosmetics are now not only the privilege of the elect, but also a mass commodity. However, the active use of chemicals (radium, thorium) in cosmetics negatively affected women's health.

Whatever dictates fashion, naturalness and youth will always be relevant. Beauty still requires attention, not sacrifice ...

Text: Katerina Pchelnikova

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