3/24/2008

Egyptian Soap

In the entire world the mystic beauty of the queens of Egitpo is known. In general, all the Egyptian women had your own secrets to always be radiant. You desmaquillaban with milk, used moisturizers with the help of milk and honey, and they supplemented the bathrooms with massages, carried out based on aromatic essences.

To put on makeup, they used the "khol", one of the contributions of the Egyptian culture to the cosmetic one. Also, they traced on the edge of your eyes, a black línes with form of swallow queue, using a cpsmético called "mesdemet."

The myrrh tree, the mint, the frankincense tree and the saffron, they were others of the substances used for the elaboration of your cosmetics.

You are known that Cleopatra, was been worth of odorants, ointments and flagrant soaps to be won the heart of powerful men. Based on an Egyptian old prescription, being guided by the utilized materials from the antiquity to carry out soaps of beauty, we will tell you how to create these fantastic soaps to see your much more beautiful skin.

Materials:
soap coconut base
a mold to your election
ethyl alcohol
cotton
vegetable red dye for soaps
essence of rosas and of menta3 threads of saffron

Procedure:
You take the soap coconut base and, with a very taper knife, cut it in pieces. You arrange the pieces in a metal vessel and put it to the fire, to melt to bathroom maría. You retract of the fire when they are already dissolved and you add the less other ingredients the alcohol. You revolve well with a wooden tablespoon until you are a homogeneous mixture. Clean the mold with a cotton absorbed in alcohol and later, you pour the mixture. You allow to solidify, desmolda smoothly and you wrap the soap in polyethylene film.

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