2024-01-09
The history of cosmetics can almost be
calculated from the era of human existence, in primitive
society, some tribes in the sacrificial
activities of animal fat smeared on the skin, so that their skin
looks healthy and shiny, which is also the
earliest skin care behavior.
From the 5th century BC to the 7th century
BC, there were many legends and records about only
making and using cosmetics in various
countries. For example, ancient Egyptians curled their hair
with clay, ancient Egyptian queens painted
their eye circles with patina, and bathed their bodies
with donkey's milk. Chinese dynasties also
liked to wipe their cheeks with brain fat and moisturize
their hair with oil.
As for the use of cosmetics, natural spices
were initially used to suppress body odor, oil was applied
to the body to keep warm, cold, light and
insects, and pigments were used to paint facial makeup.
In ancient Egypt, it was common to use
cosmetics to paint personal portraits, which were often
used as stand-ins for the dead in the
afterlife.
Therefore, in funerary paintings, both men
and women dressed in their finest clothes, wore their
most elaborate wigs, and depicted the most
beautiful makeup.
No accurate record of the history of cosmetics
has been found. From the burial objects, murals,
carvings and living remains found in
archaeological work, it is speculated that as far back as 2000
BC, human beings knew how to apply makeup
and beauty. The use of cosmetics by humans began with spices. Gradually
combined with medicine, beauty and treatment combined. According to legend, the
use of cosmetics abroad originated in ancient Egypt. In the 5th century before
the park, it was known to use oil with aromatic substances to coat the whole
body for pilgrimage to show piety, or to apply it to the body for embalming.
The source of spices is the simple processing of natural aromatic plants such
as crushing or soaking them. After thousands of years of evolution, in the 10th
century AD began to understand the use of distillation technology to process
aromatics.
By the 15th century, Europe entered the
Renaissance period, with unprecedented cultural
prosperity, and human spiritual and
material civilization were greatly improved. Cosmetics also
began to be separated from the medical
system and formed a separate industry. By the 19th
century, organic synthesis was at an
unprecedented level due to the development of organic
chemistry. With the processing of oils and
fats, the extraction and synthesis of spices, the synthesis of fuels,
endangered materials and surfactants, it provides rich raw materials for the
development of cosmetics industry. The middle of the 20th century is the period
of great development of international cosmetics, industrial and commercial
enterprises continue to emerge, including about 500 companies with strong
competitiveness. The strength of these companies is also changing at any time.
China is an ancient civilization with a
long history and splendid culture. It is also one of the first
nations to understand and use cosmetics. As
early as 1000 BC, at the end of the Shang Dynasty,
there was already a beauty product
"Yanzhi", which is today's "cytolith". At that time, the
red
orchid leaves of Yan Real estate were
mashed into juice and condensed to make fat, which was
used for decoration. The use of cosmetics
was initially based on the palace interior, and the
components were extended to the folk. The
form was from self-production to self-use, foot step
development to the centralized production
of small workshops. The famous cosmetic workshops
in China's history are Xie Fuchun in
Yangzhou and Kong Fengchun in Hangzhou, which have a history of more than one
hundred years. They were developed by collecting and refining aromatics to
supply the court. Now they have been built
into modern cosmetic factories.
China's modern cosmetics factory was
founded at the end of 19th century and the beginning of
20th century. The earliest factory was
built in Hong Kong Guangsheng Hang. In 1905, it produced
"Shuangmei brand" toilet water
and snow cream, only 10 years later than "Pond's" snow cream,
which came out in 1895. However, due to the
unstable political situation, until the eve of liberation in 1949, only a few
big cities in the country were produced by cosmetics, which were small in quantity,
low in grade and low in quality. After liberation, the cosmetics industry has
formed an independent industrial body under the leadership of the light
industry sector. The cosmetic industry lingered for another 30 years as a
result of ideological injury linking makeup with the cultural bourgeois way of
life. By the late 1970s to the early 1980s, since the reform and opening up,
people's material life and cultural life have generally improved, and the
awareness of beauty is also changing. Being neat and beautiful is not the
monopoly of the bourgeoisie, and the
consumption of cosmetics is also
increasing. In the past 10 years, by drawing advanced experience from foreign
countries and carrying out technical transformation, our cosmetics industry has
taken initial shape.
The existence of cosmetics will always
exist and develop with the continuation of human beings,
because people's pursuit of beautiful
things will never stop, and cosmetics must have a suitable
package to store, it can be said that the
history of cosmetics is the development history of
cosmetics package, Zeny engaged in all
kinds of cosmetic pen packaging will be able to exist along with human activity
all the time, which is the sustains of human dreams, pursuit, wisdom.