Makeup is often seen as modern glamour, but its story is ancient — a language of identity, power, protection, and ritual that ...

Lead in makeup is often discussed as a modern safety concern, but its dangers stretch far deeper into cultural memory. From ...

Aug. 4 -- A little sheep grease here, a little lead powder there… long before Cover Girl and Maybelline entered the scene, ancient women used what they could to enhance their beauty. And, as revealed ...

Chinese researchers have unearthed bronze containers with lead white residue that the ancient Chinese used for face-whitening makeup around 300 years before the ancient Greeks started making their own ...

The main ingredients of early cosmetics were lead sulphide and lead carbonate, the most common naturally occurring lead compounds. Lead sulphide – or ‘galena’ – is grey and relatively soft with a ...