Recently, the team of Professor Yang Yimin from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (National Science and Technology University) cooperated with the Shanxi Institute of Archaeology to discover the cosmetics of the Zhou Dynasty in the Bai Bei Goose Female Noble Cemetery in Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City.

Through scientific analysis, it is found that the residue in this copper box is cosmetics with oil, plant essential oil, cinnabar, calcite and aragonite as the main components, which proves that it should be a container for senior female aristocrats to hold and store cosmetics.

This is one of the earliest female cosmetics in the Central Plains of China, in which the components of plant essential oil were analyzed and detected, and the plant essential oil was found for the first time in ancient cosmetics in China.

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The earliest male cosmetics

The team of scientists in China just published the results of an archaeological study last month. 20 17 Researchers found the earliest male cosmetics in China in a miniature copper jar unearthed from a male aristocrat's tomb at Guo Rui site in Liujiawa, Chengcheng County, Weinan, Shaanxi Province during the Spring and Autumn Period! The residue in the copper can is made of butter mixed with calcium carbonate monohydrate particles, which is a whitening cosmetic.