The origin of lipstick can be traced back to 5000 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. Belongs to metals and minerals.

The first lipstick in the world was found in Ur, a Sumerian city in West Asia. Around 3500 BC, the empresses of Urpolis on both sides of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers began to make lip gloss with white lead and red rocks.

Lipstick ingredients: lead powder, malachite, ochre red, some mixed with resin glue to increase viscosity. Animal pigments were used in the golden age. The main ingredients are minerals, plus binders and pigments.

The ancient Egyptian people were keen on make-up, put on lipstick and drew 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 a certain extent.

When it comes to Egypt, we have to mention Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt. She was the last female Pharaoh of the Claudius Ptolemy Dynasty in ancient Egypt, and her more widely known name was Cleopatra.

She likes to crush beetles and ants and then mix them evenly. Together with an ant egg, she brought out a yellowish brown color and painted it on her lips, which was all the rage.

She especially likes magenta extracted from the fat and eggs of female cochineal insects brought by camels in 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 be in vain. She finally conquered Caesar, the most famous emperor of the Roman Empire. Caesar's famous saying is "I will come, I will see, I will conquer." Maybe lipstick played its due role.

In the middle and late period of ancient Egypt, Egyptians explored red to an unprecedented extent. Blue-black, orange and purple-red ... can be said to be a collection of all rainbow colors.

It can be seen that in addition to oral infrared rays mixed with minerals and metals, pure biological lipsticks without toxicity and side effects have already begun to be applied.

The ingredients of early lipstick are: sweat from sheep, saliva from human and excrement from crocodile.

This style of painting has become a bit too weird, and it is doubtful whether it is like this.

In the middle of Greek civilization, the formula was upgraded to fruit and vegetable juice (such as mulberry and seaweed), purple grass root and cinnabar. This is a combination of pure biology and minerals, which seems quite reliable.

Lipstick ingredients:

Mulberry, seaweed, purple grass root, cinnabar and other high-grade products.

Choose secondary products such as purplish red mercury-containing plant dye solution or red wine sediment.

It is still dominated by the mixture of minerals and biological pigments.

Because of the geographical proximity and close communication between ancient Rome and ancient Greece, their formulas 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 was once taboo because of the ban of the church.

Until 1500, the top queen Elizabeth I set off a new fashion of lipstick.

Elizabeth I became the first person to promote the popularization of lipstick in Europe with her white and round face and bright red lips. In the era of mobile internet, Elizabeth I is also a proper blogger of popular beauty, and perhaps the endorsement fee alone can support the expenses of the entire British Imperial Navy.

She is also a lipstick fan, but what she likes is not magenta, but crimson lipstick made of cochineal, Arabic rubber, egg white, beeswax and fig milk.

The key point is that a new ingredient-beeswax has finally been added here.

Today, this is still the matrix ingredient in most lipsticks. It can be said that the earliest ancestor of modern lipstick formulators was Queen Elizabeth I! If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. The queen opened the door to the beauty industry, which is probably the reason.

The Renaissance brought a new trend of thought. /kloc-in the 0/7th century, red makeup was popular in the Louis dynasty of France.

/kloc-in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, Puritan immigrants in the United States did not wear lipstick.

/kloc-in the 0/9th century, the fashion was pale and the fashion trend was more conservative. Exquisite, gentle and elegant female images are beautiful, and lipstick is considered taboo.

1867, new york B. Altman department store opened, and a cosmetic that can make cheeks and lips turn red was patented. The color of this product comes from carmine, strawberry juice, beet juice and hollyhock root (pure natural without additives). Lipstick began to become a regular commodity, and this company became the first department store in history to sell cosmetics.

1870, Guerlain introduced the world's first tubular lipstick based on wax.

1884, Guerlain produced the first commercial lipstick, which established the appearance of modern lipstick. The formula is made of grapefruit extract, oil and beeswax.

19 10, the first tubular lipstick was successfully developed. The structure is further improved.

1923, James Bruce Mason Jr created the first rotary lipstick, which is called "Mason tube", and this rotary lipstick tube design has been used to this day. This is by far the most important structural improvement in the history of lipstick development, which greatly improves the convenience of use and storage, and the product has almost evolved to the extreme form.

The formula of lipstick 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 a few hours of use.

Since the 20th century, the social and cultural trends are constantly changing, and the popular colors of lipstick are also changing and returning.

Barmor Leer lipstick is full and charming, and wheat color has become the standard of fashion. Metallic color, transparent color, light nude color and lavender have become the most popular lip colors, and various colors have also appeared in black and pink.

The development of science and technology has basically fixed the main components of lipstick:

Bottom material: oil, wax, softener, make lipstick solidify for a long time.

Wax: Palm wax and beeswax are the most commonly used, and palm wax is not easy to melt.

Oil: mineral oil, onion sesame oil, lanolin, paraffin oil.

Softening agents can increase the ability of color to adhere to lips, and can 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 adhere to the lips evenly.

Spices and seasonings can mask the taste of the above ingredients.

The composition ratio is: onion sesame oil 65%, beeswax 15%, palm wax 8- 10%, lanolin 5%, and a small amount of colorant and perfume. Some lipsticks with sparkling effect also contain mica, iron oxide, titanium dioxide and other ingredients. Some lipsticks with bright red or dark red effect may contain dried cochineal worms parasitic on cactus, and also contain some antiseptic ingredients.

Cochineal insects have been paying for our beauty for thousands of years, and it hurts.

Lipstick, since its birth, has made people colorful and let beauty flow into the world for five thousand years.

In the foreseeable future, lipstick will still be the weather vane leading social change and continue to beautify our daily life.

Nowadays, there are so many lipsticks in the makeup shop that it is not easy to choose the style and color number that suits you.