Contemporary girls should have a beauty instrument!
"Shuowen Jiezi" says: "Good, beautiful, from women." In the etymology, women are equal to beauty and equal to good. But as a synonym for "beauty", the hard work that girls put in is something we men can't empathize with. Mrs. Maisel, whom everyone was watching earlier, took off her makeup after her husband fell asleep, and put on makeup before her husband woke up. Even the people next to her pillow couldn’t see her bare face! Peekable. Maintaining beauty or becoming more beautiful has been a daily lesson for women since ancient times. Today, I will share a step-by-step list of girls' research on skin care and beauty from "from washing rice water to beauty equipment", I hope you like it.
1. At the beginning, wash your face with rice washing water
Cleansing, moisturizing, anti-wrinkle, whitening, this is the millennium theme of skin care. Washing the face with rice washing water is a "earth skin care technique" that became popular as early as the pre-Qin period, also known as "Pan". Pan invites you." That's what he was talking about.
Now many of us still use rice washing water to wash grapes and other fruits, and the descaling effect is really good; there are also people who advocate washing rice water to wash their faces. The exquisite "Pan" is made of polished rice and contains starch, vitamins, protein and other nutrients. Maybe it really has the effect of beautifying the skin?
2. Then, soap" appeared
The wise ancients quickly upgraded "Pan" to an existence similar to today's soap and washing flour. For example, the "bath beans" invented in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, added various medicinal materials and spices with soybean powder. The beans are rich in nutrients such as soybean isoflavones, which are indeed good for women's beauty. There are still many elderly people who like to call soap "pancreas" because the ancients added pig pancreas to "bath beans". A book called "Qian Jin Yi Fang" in the Tang Dynasty recorded these things. In the "Taiping Shenghui Fang" of the Song Dynasty, it also recorded the production method of "clean flour" at that time: 90 grams of chicken bone incense, 150 grams each of Angelica dahurica, Chuanxiong, and melon wilt kernels, 300 grams of acacia, and 300 grams of soybeans and red beans. 250g, grind and sieve to the fullest, remove tendon and skin, and make medicinal powder. Use it as cleansing powder when washing your face, once in the morning and at night.
3. People in the Tang Dynasty began to apply facial masks
Cleaning is only the first step, moisturizing and beauty are also needed. In this regard, the ancients processed animal fat and other raw materials to make "face fat" and "lip fat" to remove wrinkles and moisturize the face and lips. How to do it, the Northern Wei Dynasty "Qi Min Elements" records a method of preparation: use beef marrow and tallow, and fry with cloves and Huoxiang soaked in warm wine. In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian loved skin care, so the imperial doctors developed a lot of beauty secrets, one of which was prescribed by the imperial doctor Zhang Wenzhong to Wu Zetian, called "Often Apply Facial Fat", which is equivalent to the facial mask we use today. Generation is very popular.
4. In the era when there was no facial cleanser, various powders were used
There is a famous formula in ancient times, called "Near Effect Zetian Dasheng Empress Refining Motherwort to Leave Face", which is to mix the ashes made of motherwort into a paste when washing the face in the morning and evening, and then apply it on the face and hands, repeatedly Rub it in, just like how women use facial cleansers and skin cleansers today. The Tang Dynasty medical classic "Waitai Miyao" believes that motherwort ash not only has the effect of whitening, but also can erode the aging and rough cuticle on the skin and let the dead skin fall off. And Song people also gave it a special poetic name-"Jade Girl Powder"
In the life encyclopedia "Complete Works of Necessary Things at Home" compiled by Yuanren, Jade Girl Powder" was developed into "Yerong Cream" with rich ingredients, and it was made into balls with egg white and dried in the shade. When putting on makeup at night, use the "Yerong Cream" pill to adjust the moisture with saliva. It is said that it has "magic power" for beauty.
5. Lead mercury compound whitening, easy to poison!
The ancients had no scientific chemical knowledge at all, let alone experimental analysis. Many raw materials were added blindly, which may even be bad for the skin.
The biggest problem is that since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the folks have used a large number of lead mercury compounds to whitewash the skin. This is what the "lead flower" in Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu" means. Lead powder whitening is the same at home and abroad. Queen Elizabeth of England also used lead mercury compound to promote the apoptosis of melanocytes and bleach the skin. However, menstrual fatigue will cause toxic reactions. The ancient Chinese were not completely ignorant of its toxicity. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said that lead is poisonous, but the majority of women still cannot resist the temptation to turn white. Even now, excessive lead and mercury is still a safety hazard in the quality supervision of cosmetics.
6. Nowadays, beauty can be done in a more scientific way
Different from ancient times, modern chemistry is well developed, with systematic scientific experiment analysis. Not only are skin care products rich and colorful, but ingredients and functions will be marked; there are also many proven and effective beauty instruments that have been put into use on a large scale.
The most representative ones are all kinds of instruments that use light and electromagnetic to solve skin problems, such as ion cleansing skin, micro-current lifting and firming, red light frequency radiation for anti-aging and skin rejuvenation, blue light for calming and anti-inflammation...all of them are effective, nothing controversial.
In the beginning, these beauty instruments were only available to "ladies" in big cities, because they were only available in high-end beauty salons, and they cost a lot of money; now that they are more popular, the single cost is still not small, often tens of thousands. Fortunately, with the advancement of technology, home beauty devices with lower single cost have appeared. Home beauty instruments can be understood as their smaller versions, with similar principles, but they need to be used for a long time to achieve the effect. The advantage is that the energy becomes smaller, the damage to the skin is reduced, and it is safer.