The artifice of beauty : a history and practical guide to perfumes and cosmetics / Sally Pointer.
"This unique book traces the way in which we have adorned, perfumed and presented ourselves from the earliest prehistoric evidence through to the dawn of the multi-million-dollar cosmetics industry of the twentieth century. We discover what the perfumes found in Tutankhamun's tomb would ha...
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Sutton,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the nature of the evidence
- 1. The earliest evidence
- 2. The ancient world
- 3. The classical Greek and Roman world
- 4. The early medieval period
- 5. The Middle Ages
- 6. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 7. The eighteenth century
- 8. The nineteenth century
- 9. The twentieth century and beyond
- 10. A-Z of cosmetic and perfume ingredients
- 11. Tools, implements and cosmetic containers
- 12. Adapting early recipes to modern usage
- 13. Modern cosmetic pigments
- 14. Weights and measures
- App. 1. Ingredients listed by classical authors
- App. 2. Abdeker's 'Library of the toilet', 1754.