What Are Cosmetic Herbs?

           The very old Egyptians treasured the cosmetics and the perfumery so extremely that they were even buried along with their beauty products, like the kohl (A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids) and the eye pencils, which were be kept and reserved in ornate vases.

           There were so many types of the perfumes which still had some fragrance even after three thousand years. The most frequently and commonly used ingredients were the frankincense (An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation) and myrrh (Aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume), which could be mixed along with sesame, almond or olive oil. Gum resins like myrrh were mixed or added together for their fragrance.

           The initial variants of the perfumes were unguents (semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation). They were based on an animal fat which were heated with different types of ingredients of aromatic plant. When cold, they were also used as balm or shaped into the cones which were worn on heads, so that they melted gradually oiling the body and clothing with perfumed grease.