Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Products
Oil was necessary in
ancient Egypt, both for scent (they, like we,
abhored body odor) and to protect skin against the hot, dry climate.
These oils were often in the form of unguent: an oil/wax mixture, much
like lotion.
Notes:
1 The Admonitions of Ipuwer, Middle Kingdom. Reprinted
in Ancient Egyptian
Literature,
Volume I: The Old and New Kingdoms, by Miriam Lichtheim,
p. 155.
2 The
Song from the Tomb of King
Intef, Middle Kingdom. Reprinted in Ancient
Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and New Kingdoms,
by
Miriam Lichtheim, p. 194.