The World's First Lipstick

While women are naturally beautiful, who can deny the power of lipstick?  Lipstick first appeared way back in 1000 CE when Abulcasis, an Andalusian-Arab Muslim, gave a description in his 30-volume medical encyclopedia.  The huge book got translated in Latin, leading to the spread of lipstick know-how. Some people think that Egyptians created lipstick, but their mixture of iodine and bromine caused sickness, besides giving lips color.  So, Max Factor, Revlon, and others can credit Abulcasis, or Abu al-Qassum al-Zahrawi, for today's popular lip embellishment: the lipstick.