White Lead Paint Makeup

White lead occurs naturally as a mineral in which context it is known as hydrocerussite a hydrate of cerussite.

White lead paint makeup.

Author lisa eldridge wrote in her book face paint that archaeologists have found traces of white lead in the graves of upper class women who lived as far back as ancient greece. Next she dips her fingertips into the creams and powders of her toilet table gravitating toward a bright white paint filled with lead which she delicately paints over her features. White lead is the basic lead carbonate 2pbco 3 pb oh 2. Look closely and you ll see eye makeup on this limestone bust of egyptian queen nefertiti circa 1355 b c.

We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. It was formerly used as an ingredient for lead paint and a cosmetic called venetian ceruse because of its opacity and the satiny smooth mixture it made. Lead white is made by a modern process yielding a finely divided powder of high purity. Rublev colours stack lead white is made according to the sixteenth century dutch stack process.