Skin Care and Cosmetics Part 3
To Blacken the Eye-lashes and
Eye-brows: The simplest preparation for this purpose are the juice of
elder-berries; burnt cork, or cloves burnt at the candle. Some employ the black
of frankincense, resin, and mastic; this black, it is said, will not come off with
perspiration.
Frankincense; an aromatic resin obtained
from the Boswellia family of trees.
Mastic; a resin obtained from the
mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus), it is harvested as a hard brittle
translucent yellow resin, but then worked (chewed) it softens and becomes
a bright white and opaque gum with a slightly pine or cedar flavour, and was
used as a breath-freshener and teeth-whitener; used in make-up as a bonding
agent.
Rouge, For
the Complexion: Take carmine in fine powder, one part, and levigated French
chalk, 5 parts, mix.
Carmine; a bright red dye produced
from the shells of the cochineal
insect.
French chalk; soap-stone, or stealite, is a magnesian mineral, harder
than ordinary talc, which it otherwise resembles, and forming a whiter and
richer powder.
**We do not recommend you try these recipes at home.
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