"Love of beauty is in all people", human beings to beautify their own cosmetics, since ancient times, there is a constant pursuit. The history of the development of cosmetics can be divided into the following four stages (also known as the four generations):
①The first generation is the use of natural plant and animal oils and fats on the skin for purely physical protection
That is, the direct use of plant and animal or mineral sources of various types of oils and fats without chemical treatment. Ancient Egyptians more than 4,000 years ago has been in religious ceremonies, the preservation of dried bodies, as well as royal aristocrats personal skin care and beauty on the use of plant and animal fats and oils, mineral oils and plant flowers. Ancient Romans in addition to the skin, hair, nails, lips on the beautification and maintenance of Naples (Naples) region has become the center of the incense industry for the pleasure of the scent, but also in the closet to prevent moths, the earliest aromatics are camphor, musk, sandalwood, lavender and clove oil, and so on.
Since the 7th century to the 12th century, the Arab countries in the production of cosmetics has made important achievements, which is represented by the invention of the distillation method of processing plant flowers, greatly improving the production and quality of essential oils. At the same time, China's cosmetics has also been a significant development, in the ancient book of "Han Shu" in the eyebrow, point lip records; "Qimin Essentials" in the introduction of the fragrance of cloves incense powder; China's Song Dynasty Han Yan straight written by the "wither Li" is the world's earlier specialized works on aroma.
②The second generation is based on oil and water emulsification technology cosmetics
Eighteen and nineteen centuries after the Industrial Revolution in Europe, chemistry, physics, biology and medicine has been unprecedented development, many new raw materials, equipment and technology is applied to the production of cosmetics, but also due to the later surface chemistry, colloidal chemistry, crystalline chemistry, rheology and emulsification theory and other principles of development. The introduction of dielectric surfactants as well as the use of HLB values have solved the key problem of the correct selection of emulsifiers.
In these scientific theories and later a lot of people's practice, cosmetics production has undergone great changes, from the original primary small-scale home production, gradually developed into a new professional science and technology. It is on this basis that China's cosmetic industry has become the most rapid development of China's light industry, the most popular among the general public of the Norwegian industry. Even the U.S. famous FDA (Food and Drug Administration FoodDrugAdministration) is also considering changing its name to FDCA (Food Drug Cosmetics Administration Food Drug Cosmetics Administration).
③The third generation is the addition of various types of plant and animal extracts of cosmetics
such as from the saponaria, fruit acids, papaya and other natural plants, or extracted from the animal skin and offal of deep-sea fish proteins and hormones (Hormoues) and other extracts added to the cosmetics. Extraction methods in the more advanced supercritical C02 extraction method to improve the rate of effective substances and extraction purity, the resulting system of salt chemical; ling products have been popular in foreign countries for four or five decades, so that people are always in pursuit of whitening, acne, blemishes, wrinkles, etc. become possible, until now, some of these cosmetics are still very popular.
Functionalized; Lingshi this cosmetic is also known as therapeutic cosmetics (MedicatedCosmetics or simply called Cosmeceuticals), sometimes also known as quasi, meaning between cosmetics (Cosmetics) and drugs (Drugs).