10 Beauty Secrets Of Egyptian Woman

Egyptian women are well known for their beauty. The most renowned beautiful personality of Egypt was Cleopatra and even today, the tales of Cleopatra's beauty are famous. In general, Egyptian ladies are all beautiful and the secret to their beauty will be revealed in this article.

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Ancient Egyptian ladies never looked old and they died beautiful. They never compromised on their skin and used all natural products. For them beauty was the most essential thing especially for girls and wanted to look young forever.

These natural ingredients used by ancient Egyptian ladies are now almost five thousand years old. However, you can make use of these beauty ingredients even today.

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The beauty of Egyptian women was famous all around the world. If you want to know their beauty secrets read on to know what made them so beautiful.

Fenugreek Seeds

Fenugreek Seeds

The beautiful women of Egypt used to do facials and make face masks using fenugreek seeds. It makes the skin soft and beautiful. Fenugreek also prevents from acne and pimples as it has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties.

Body Sugaring

Body Sugaring

Ancient Egypt ladies used to remove body hair using sugar. They used to make a thick paste of sugar in water and then applied this paste on their skin. This was used to remove hair in the same way we remove hair by waxing. The difference is that it is a lot less painful than a wax, but just as effective at removing body hair.

Avocado

Avocado

Egypt ladies used to mash an avocado to make a paste and then applied the paste on their face. Sliced avocado were put on eyes to treat sagged skin and wrinkles.

Almond oil

Almond oil

The ancient Egyptians used almond oil to moisturise their body after a bath. They never forgot to apply almond oil on their skin as it made their skin soft, tight and beautiful. They never used to age early as they used almond oil daily. Almond oil is rich in good fats and vitamin E that benefits skin.

Sea Salt

Sea Salt

Cleopatra used to take a bath in Dead Sea to hydrate her skin and enrich it with minerals present in sea salt. You can also use Dead Sea salt by adding it to your bath. Dead sea salt is also available today and you can buy it. Dead Sea salt contains many nutrients that directly get absorbed into the skin. It will nourish and rejuvenate your skin. Apart from this it will treat all skin diseases too.

Soaps

Soaps

The Egyptian women maintained a good body hygiene. They used to made soaps at home from animal fats, clay and natural oils. They later added aroma to the soap by adding scents like myrrh to it. From this, we can point out that how chemical soaps damage our skin. They used all natural products and were beautiful till the day they died.

Milk Baths

Milk Baths

The egyptian beauty Cleopatra used to bath with milk. It makes the skin soft and beautiful. The sugar and lactic acid present in milk helps nourish and exfoliate the skin.

Perfumes

Perfumes

Egyptian women were fond of scents too. They used to put natural scents such as lavender, rosemary, rose-water, thyme and cedar. They added these scents in their bath water and used to smell good the whole day.

Henna

Henna

Egyptian women used to colour their hair and nails with henna. Henna used to condition and colour their hair. We should not neglect the beauty benefits of henna and should make use of it instead of chemical dyes for hair.

Red ochre

Red ochre

It is a natural substance found in some clay and sand deposits and is made from iron oxide. It is a natural red coloured pigment used by Ancient Egypt women to colour the lips. It was also used as a blusher. They mixed red ochre powder with water and painted their lips and cheeks.

Story first published: Friday, July 24, 2015, 14:24 [IST]
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