Elizabeth Taylor, a Hollywood superstar, said that the first cosmetic a woman has in her life should be lipstick.
the origin of lipstick can be traced back to 5 BC. At that time, lip color was very popular in Sumerians in West Asia, Egyptians in North Africa, Syrians in the Middle East, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks along the Mediterranean, ancient Romans, and China in East Asia.
lipstick ingredients: lead powder and red ore. Which belongs to metal and minerals.
The first lipstick in the world was found in Ur, a Sumerian city in West Asia. About 35 BC, the Empresses of Urpolis on the banks of Euphrates River and Tigris River began to use white lead and red rocks to make lip gloss.
lipstick ingredients: lead powder, malachite, red ochre, and some mixed with resin gum to increase viscosity. Animal pigments were used in the golden age. The main ingredients are minerals, plus adhesives and pigments.
The people of ancient Egypt were keen on make-up, putting on lipstick and drawing thick black eyeliner with lead sulfide, which was not only beautiful, but also played a role in isolating ultraviolet rays and preventing mosquito bites to some extent.
When it comes to Egypt, you must mention Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt. She was the last female Pharaoh of the Claudius Ptolemy Dynasty in ancient Egypt, and she was better known as Cleopatra.
She loves to crush beetles and ants and mix them evenly. Adding an ant's egg, she brings out a yellowish brown color and spreads it on her lips, which is all the rage.
She also has a special preference for magenta extracted from the fat and eggs of female cochineal insects brought by camels from Persia and Mesopotamia. It is this preference that makes magenta the most classic color system of lipstick, and its influence continues to this day.
The queen's thoughts should not have been in vain. She finally conquered Caesar, the most famous emperor of the Roman Empire, and Caesar's famous saying is "I will come, I will see, I will conquer." Maybe lipstick has played its due role.
In the middle and late period of ancient Egypt, the Egyptians' exploration of the red color reached an unprecedented level. Blue-black, orange, purplish red ... can be said to have gathered all the rainbow colors.
It can be seen that besides the oral infrared blended by minerals and metals, pure biological lipstick without toxicity and side effects has already been applied.
The components of early lipstick are: sweat from sheep, saliva from human and excrement from crocodile.
This painting style has changed a bit too strangely. It is doubtful whether it is so.
In the middle period of Greek civilization, the recipe was upgraded to be made of fruit and vegetable juices (such as mulberry and seaweed), purple grass roots and cinnabar. This is a combination of pure biology and minerals, and it looks quite reliable.
lipstick ingredients:
high-grade products such as mulberry, seaweed, purple grass root, cinnabar, etc.
secondary products are selected, such as purplish red plant dye solution containing mercury or red wine sediment.
The mixture of minerals and biological pigments is still dominant.
Because of the geographical proximity and close communication between ancient Rome and ancient Greece, the formulas of the two are so similar.
lipstick ingredients: cochineal insect, gum Arabic, egg white, fig, etc. This is a mixture of pure natural creatures.
In the dark Middle Ages, lipstick became taboo for a while because of the ban of the church.
until 15, the top queen Elizabeth I set off a new fashion of lipstick.
Elizabeth I became the first person to promote the popularity of lipstick in Europe with her white and round face and bright red lips. In terms of people in the era of mobile Internet, Elizabeth I is also a proper popular beauty blogger. Perhaps the endorsement fee alone can support the expenses of the entire British Imperial Navy.
She is also a lipstick control, but she likes not magenta, but crimson lipstick made of cochineal insects, Arabic rubber, egg white, beeswax and fig milk.
Focus, a new ingredient-beeswax has finally been added here.
Today, this is still the matrix component in most lipsticks. It can be said that the earliest grandparent of modern lipstick formulators is Queen Elizabeth I! If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. The Queen has opened the door to the beauty industry, which is probably the reason.
The Renaissance brought a brand-new trend of thought. In the 17th century, the Louis Dynasty in France was popular with red makeup.
in the 18th century, the Puritan immigrants in America did not wear lipstick.
In the 19th century, the popularity was pale, and the fashion trend became more conservative. The image of a delicate, quiet and refined lady was beautiful, and lipstick was considered taboo.
in 1867, new york B.Altman department store opened, and a cosmetic that can make cheeks and lips red was patented. The color of this product comes from the roots of carmine, strawberry juice, beet juice and hollyhock (pure natural without additives). Lipstick began to become a regular commodity, and this company became the first department store in history to sell cosmetics.
in 187, Guerlain introduced the world's first tubular lipstick based on wax.
in 1884, Guerlain produced the first commercial lipstick, which established the appearance of modern lipstick. The formula is made of grapefruit extract, oil and beeswax.
in 191, the first tubular lipstick was successfully developed. The structure has been further improved.
in 1923, James Bruce Mason Jr created the first rotary lipstick, which was called "Mason tube", and this rotary lipstick tube design has been used up to now. This is the most important structural improvement in the history of lipstick development so far, which greatly improves the ease of use and facilitates storage, and the product has almost evolved to the ultimate form.
The lipstick formula has not changed much: insect powder, beeswax, olive oil, butter, lard and other ingredients.
the disadvantage is obvious, it is too easy to deteriorate, and it will lose its effect after several hours of use.
since the 2th century, the social and cultural trends have been changing constantly, and the popular colors of lipstick are also changing and returning.
Barmor Luer lipstick is full and charming, and wheat color has become a fashionable standard. Metallic color, transparent color, light nude color, pastel lavender and so on have become the most popular lip colors, and various colors have appeared in BLACKPINK, each leading the way.
With the development of science and technology, the main components of lipstick have been basically fixed:
Substrate: oil, wax and softener, which make lipstick solidified and durable
Waxes: palm wax and beeswax are most commonly used, and palm wax is not easy to melt.
oil: mineral oil, scallion oil, lanolin and paraffin oil.
Softening agent can increase the ability of color to attach to lips, and also moisturize lips. Lip honey contains more oil and less wax.
colorant: contains pigment or dye, and the pigment used in lipstick must be fine particles to be evenly attached to the lips.
spices and seasonings can mask the taste of the above ingredients.
ingredient ratio: 65% of scallion sesame oil, 15% of beeswax, 8-1% of palm wax, 5% of lanolin, and a little coloring agent and fragrance. Some lipsticks with sparkling effect also contain mica, iron oxide, titanium dioxide and other ingredients. Some lipsticks with bright red or dark red effects may contain dried cochineal parasitic on cactus, and also contain some antiseptic ingredients.
Cochineal insects have been paying for our beauty for thousands of years, and they are distressed.
Since its birth, lipstick has made people colorful and let beauty flow into the world for five thousand years.
In the foreseeable future, lipstick will still be a weather vane leading social changes and continue to beautify our daily life.
In today's makeup shops, lipsticks are dazzling, so it's not easy to choose the style and color number that suits you.