A smile can conquer a city, and another smile can conquer a country. It is brilliant but not arrogant, warm but not presumptuous.
What kind of skin care did ancient women use?
In traditional life, plant ash has been one of the important means for people to wash clothes and clean their bodies because it contains alkaline and can remove oil and greasy dirt. Obviously, motherwort ash is a kind of plant ash alkali. Speaking of which, the "Short-term effect of Queen Zetian's Motherwort Refining Recipe" is actually nothing more than using the alkalinity in motherwort ash to cleanse the surface of the skin on the face and hands. Oil and dirt in skin and pores. However, the ancients believed that motherwort ash has more functions, such as removing melanin deposits in the skin, moisturizing the blood, removing wrinkles, and even treating sores and acne.
In the Tang Dynasty painting "Lady with Hairpins", through the thin layer of translucent gauze on the body of a Tang Dynasty woman, her white, tender and moist skin can be seen. Skin like this requires extremely delicate care. Could this beautiful lady be rubbed with the pink and "flesh-colored" "Jade Girl Peach Blossom Powder"? In the official medical code "Shengji Zonglu" compiled in the late Northern Song Dynasty, there is a "Leonurus application prescription" to treat "dark face": "Mix (Leonurus ash) with vinegar into a dough, simmer it for seven degrees with charcoal fire, grind it into a mortar, and grind it finely Mix it with honey and put it in a box. Every time you go to bed, wash your face with water and then apply it. "
Women in ancient times also wanted to beautify themselves at night.
In the past, women were not sloppy at all in the beauty care they did before going to bed at night. Women with a certain level of financial strength put on a thin layer of makeup before going to bed, and then wear this makeup overnight. An indispensable part of the thin makeup at night is to apply nutrients to the face and body. Makeup powder.
After a night's rest, the "thin makeup" you put on before going to bed will become "remnant makeup" when you get up in the morning. The white powder applied on the face is difficult to preserve and falls off a lot. Such an image appeared in the "Gong Ci" by Wang Jian, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: "I will always stand beside the flower tree in Zhaoyang before tomorrow."
As early as the Shang Dynasty in more than 1,000 BC At the end of the dynasty, there was already the beauty product "Yanzhi", which is today's "cytolipid". At that time, the red orchid leaves from Yan's real estate were pounded into juice and condensed into fat, which was used as a decoration.