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Hope, in a jar, with better packaging than promises usually get.
means Products you apply to your face, hair, or body to enhance or alter your appearance.
from From Greek 'kosmetikos,' meaning skilled in adornment or arrangement, which traces back to 'kosmos' — meaning order, or the harmonious arrangement of the universe (yes, the same root as 'cosmos'). The Greeks saw beautifying as a kind of ordering, bringing a face into harmony the way the stars were thought to be arranged just so. The word entered English use around the 17th century, carrying that old idea that makeup isn't trickery but a small act of putting things in their rightful place.
- ancient eyeliner
- Egyptians wore kohl to ward off eye infections, not just style
- lead lipstick
- Victorian rouge sometimes contained lead and mercury, knowingly
- legal loophole
- FDA does not require cosmetics to be proven safe before sale
- lipstick index
- Small luxury sales reportedly rise during economic downturns