Black & Red Currants â A Currant Affair. The black currant has long been popular in Europe, especially as a juice in beverages and desserts. Noted for significant amounts of antioxidant Vitamin C, this berry offers a rich flavor and dark purple color originating from its high content of anthocyanins.With popularity growing in the US market, black currants:lack & Red Currants â A Currant Affair. The black currant has long been popular in Europe, especially as a juice in beverages and desserts. Noted for significant amounts of antioxidant Vitamin C, this berry offers a rich flavor and dark purple color originating from its high content of anthocyanins.
Burnt Almonds were used along with minerals to create eye and brow colour. They used goose fat to create cosmetic pastes. Egyptian eye make ups were packed carefully in jars, pouches or shells. The other kind of eye makeup produced by the Egyptians was derived from a dark gray ore obtained from lead. It was known as Mesdemet and could be derived from both antimony sulfide and lead sulfide. The area of Aswan was particularly rich in deposits of galena and so was the Red Sea coast.
Kohl is an ancient eye cosmetic, traditionally made by grinding stibnite (Sb 2 S 3). It is widely used in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of West Africa as eyeliner to contour and/or darken the eyelids and as mascara for the eyelashes.It is worn mostly by women, but also by some men and children. Kohl has also been used in India as a cosmetic for a long time.he Arabic name ÙØ­Ù kuá¸¥l and the Biblical Hebrew ××× kaá¸¥al (cf. modern Hebrew ×××× blue) are cognates, from a Semitic root k-á¸¥-l. Transliteration variants of Arabic dialectal pronunciation include kol, kehal or kohal. The Arabic word was loaned into a number of languages with the spread of Islam.