Who the first introducer of the face powder? please help me?

Way back – like in 10,000 BC, cosmetics were used to enhance the beauty of the female countenance.


4000 BC The Egyptians: Here we see the first archeological evidence of cosmetics. They used cosmetic cleansers made from vegetable or animal oil mixed with powdered lime and perfume – the Egyptians held a strong connection between their cosmetic makeup and their spirituality.


The East 1500 BC: In China and Japan rice powder was used to paint faces pasty white. Eyebrows were shaved and plucked, and teeth were painted gold or black and Henna dyes, were used to stain hair and faces.


1000 BC Greece:use of cosmetics was predominantly – well, cosmetic. They were still interested in looking good, but not for the gods – for each other. So they adopted the Egyptian cosmetic practices and products. Everybody wanted the “real white” look given by wearing chalk or white lead face powder.


100 AD Rome:, the Romans moved in, with their life of frivolity and debauchery. The Egyptians’ cosmetic formulas were used for even less spiritual purposes, like aphrodisiacs. However, vanity was still an issue, so cosmetics still had a place on the face – and on the rest of the body, too. It was said by one Roman, a man named Platus, that “a woman without paint is like food without salt.”


14th Century: Cosmetics were regarded as a health threat because many thought they would block proper circulation.


15th -16th Centuries


In Europe, cosmetics were used only by the aristocracy. Italy and France became the chief centers of Cosmetics manufacturing.


17th -18th Century: Cosmetics are now in use by all except the very poorest classes of society. Red rouge and lipstick were used extensively to suggest health, wealth and gayety.





Before the 19th Century Through many centuries, a pale face was the desired look because it defined your place in society. It was recognized that those who worked in the fields had tanned and rugged skin. They were the working class, not to be associated with the upper refined class, who had white skin. Those with pale skin were the ones who had enough money that they didn’t need to work. And to achieve that look, women and men used a powder made of hydroxide, carbonate, and lead oxide. Unfortunately, there was a price to pay for looking “proper” – lead poisoning. That’s why an alternative was sought. And they found it, in the 19th century –








19th Century: France again. They develop chemical processes to replace fragrances made by the natural methods and the facial powder of lead and copper, by zinc oxide (still in use today). Zinc oxide becomes widely used as a facial powder, replacing the more deadly mixtures of lead and copper previously used.


20th Century: mass marketed of cosmetics. In 1950s: We begin the modern era of the cosmetics business as we know it. Face powders and makeup, tanning oils and fragrances are mass marketed to an essentially “new” post war society that is tired of shortages. Popular sponsors of radio soap operas transfer their ads to the new medium of television.Who the first introducer of the face powder? please help me?
George Washington Carver





The modern face powder was invented by this black man.Who the first introducer of the face powder? please help me?
The earliest instance of face powder I can find is this:





1500 BC: In China and Japan rice powder was used to paint faces pasty white.