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Egyptian Woman

General Facts :
Ancient Egyptian women did care about their weight, apperance, figure and breath. They compared their physical appearance with their friends.

What a Beautiful woman should have :
A small waist, a flat stomach

Make up :
Egyptian women used a kind of formula to overcome their skin problems, especially wrinkles. They also used eye make up. This make up is not only for the sake of beauty. It also contained a disinfectant which kept flies away.

Others :
Egyptian women believeb that cleanliness was next to godliness. Women associated unpleasant body odor with impurity. So they tried their best to look good and to smell good. Even poor women paid a lot of attention to this matter.