Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease Date: January 12, 2010 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen ...

Artifacts and documents from ancient Egypt show that everyone, man or woman from servant to queen, wore black and ... ancient Egyptian manuscripts, the eye makeup was believed to have a magical ...

The ancient Egyptian royals sure loved their eye makeup. Look at Queen Nefertiti up there. The ancients believed their makeup not only looked good, but protected them against health problems.

The elaborate eye makeup worn by Queen Nefertiti and ... and X-ray diffraction to analyze 52 samples from containers of Egyptian makeup preserved at the Louvre. They found that the makeup was ...

The earliest eye paint in ancient Egypt was a thick, bright green paste made from the mineral malachite. By the time Queen Cleopatra came to power in the 1st century BC, Egyptian women had at ...