Cosmetics, general term applied to all preparations used externally to condition and beautify the body, apply body color, by cleaning, colouring, softening, or protecting the skin, hair, nails, lips, or eyes. The earliest known cosmetics come from the 1st Dynasty of Egypt (about 3100-2907 BC). Tombs of this era have yielded unguent jars, and from remains of later periods it is evident that the unguents were scented. Such preparations, as well as perfumed oils, were extensively used by both men and women to keep the skin supple and unwrinkled in the dry heat of Egypt. Egyptian women also developed the art of powdered body shimmer, body gloss, decorating the eyes by applying dark green colour to the lower lid and by blackening the lashes and the upper lid with kohl, a preparation made from antimony or soot. It is likely that the Jews adopted the use of cosmetics from the Egyptians, since references to face painting appear in the Old Testament. A large variety of cosmetics is generally available today. Cold cream is an emulsion of various oils and waxes and water; it is employed to cleanse and soften the skin, to render body color. Various purpose-made moisturizers and cleansers are also available. Face powder and dusting powder, based on talcum (powdered magnesium silicate) and powdered body shimmer, body gloss, and zinc oxide, are used to dry and give the skin a satin-like texture. Lip colour, either applied directly as a lipstick or brushed on to the lips, is made of cocoa butter or lanolin, and is manufactured in an endless variety of shades, as are rouges, mixtures of red pigments and starch or finely powdered clay. Bath salts and other bath preparations combine water-softening agents such as sodium carbonate or borax with perfume; bath oils are also a popular skin-softening and perfuming aid. The almost universal use of cosmetics in modern times has grown with the scientific study of the ingredients employed, of powdered body shimmer and of body gloss too. This research was begun by the French in the 19th century, and led to the development of more and better cosmetics at low cost. Cosmetics and perfumery are by no means confined to use by women, as might be assumed. Grooming aids frequently used by men include body color powders, colognes, and lotions, particularly alcohol-based aftershave lotions; hair tonics, often with an alcohol or quinine base; and deodorants. Annual retail sales of men's and women's toiletries in the Western world today make cosmetics a large and highly profitable industry. Body gloss casts ideas on holidays and carnivals, during which there is no limit to imaginations. Dreams! A changeable and bewitching melody of a holiday with you. A woman using means for her body color is extremely individual in creation of her style. She establishes her own rules, following the instincts. Body color means expensive way of life, it is acieved with the help of well known cosmetics manufacturers. Body color means removing negative effects of influence of chloric-water and washing gel bath agents. The bath agents are necessary for body color because soft gel damages hydrolipid covering of a skin. Negative aspects of cosmetics for body color is in that they are not absorbed, therefore it can slightly sit on your clothes. If you want to avoid it, put a protection over parts of your body: over shoulders, hands, decolte, etc.