Talk:History of cosmetics

message: "The first archaeological evidence of cosmetics usage is found in Ancient Egypt around 4000 BC. The Ancient Greeks and Romans also used cosmetics. The Romans and Ancient Egyptians used cosmetics containing mercury and lead."  Could we have some specifics and citations?
:I quite agree, and will be trying to find some. In the meantime, all of this article needs expanding and referencing. I've added an expand tag to the article in recognition of the fact. -- TinaSparkle 20:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: What were they used for? Who used them? What did they use? This article needs a lot of work. It's missing a lot of important information. SadanYagci 20:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cosmetics

message: In its current state, this article is so weak that we should merge it with Cosmetics.  Most of the content is off-topic or uncited.  And most of the citations in the cosmetics articles are to .com sources, which would not be tolerated in better-developed areas of Wikipedia. Yes, the history would be interesting, but this article has been languishing here for 3 years and we still have an anemic report.  Also, a lot of the article is not even history, but current practices.  I propose that the merge to compress this material down to a good section within Cosmetics. --Smokefoot (talk) 17:15, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Recently detagged, which seems fine. FeatherPluma (talk) 04:38, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

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message: I would suggest adding more images of men and makeup as it will be more historically accurate. The way the article is written it seems that only women used makeup.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.36.182 (talk) 10:15, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Men and makeup 

message: Hello everyone, I am working on a group project with @Wendy072310 and @Mciverb and wanted to include some suggestions for this page. We noticed that there are some references to the late 1800s in the 20th century section and wanted to create a new section titled 19th century. For this new section, we would move the small introduction about the stigmatization of cosmetics from the 20th century up to the 19th century section.  All of the information we will be adding comes from Beauty Imagined by Geoffrey Jones, a British author who holds three degrees from Cambridge University and who currently works as a professor of business history at Harvard University. Using this text, we would include information on how visual awareness increased due to the improvement in mirrors, electricity, advertisements, and commercialization. We will include Tetlow’s 1866 discovery of the non-toxic zinc oxide face powders, the popularization of milks and cold creams and their growth in the mass market, and the invention of Vaseline by Robert Chesebrough in the late 1800s. All together we are hoping to add around 200-300 words. Please let us know what you all think and if you have any suggestions! 
Thank you!
Aebabel (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Suggestions 

message: — Assignment last updated by AliResen (talk) 05:16, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Hist401

message: Byrd, Ayana, and Lori L. Tharps. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
This book will add to the narrative of Black hair and the products that are used to upkeep their hair. Additionally, it touches on the companies that began to see Black people as consumers and created products tailored specifically for them. 
Ford, Tanisha C. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. Chapel Hill. 2015.
This sources creates an alternate narrative for style as a form of resistance. I probably will not use much of this source, but just for context of cosmetics for Black women during the 1960s.
Sarah Schrank. Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of the Body (Penn, 2019). 
This source has a chapter on the cosmetics industry and the attention to creating cosmetics that are natural looking.
Historian1109 (talk) 02:13, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Bibliography 

message: — Assignment last updated by Danaalmeer (talk) 11:36, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: MIT 398 Intercultural International Communication