Doctors prescribed many beauty secrets for Wu Zetian, the most famous of which was "Motherwort Powder" (also known as "Xianyu Powder", which sounds very interesting), which was included in Newly Revised Materia Medica and later included in Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen. Motherwort, the main ingredient, is a gynecological medicine, which can be taken orally or used externally. External application can remove spots, improve skin color, whiten skin color and reduce wrinkles; Oral administration has the effect of regulating menstruation and relieving pain.

Lady Yang

Bai Juyi's poems make people think infinitely: "As long as she turns her head and smiles, there will be a hundred kinds of spells, and the makeup of the sixth house will go up in smoke." How beautiful the imperial concubine is. It is said that the reason why Yang Guifei is so beautiful is that besides "natural beauty", she also makes good use of various beauty techniques. It is said that "Yang Taizhen Ruby Cream" is named after her. The main ingredient of this ruby cream is almonds.

"It was early spring. They let her bathe in the pure flower pond to warm and smooth her creamy crystal skin. " She seems to often soak in hot springs to solidify her muscles. It is said that she also likes to add milk in the bath to keep her skin moist.

"Riding the world of mortals and laughing, who knows that it is litchi." Everyone knows that Yang Guifei likes litchi. Litchi is sweet, sour and warm, and enters the heart, spleen and liver meridians. Eating lychee for a long time will benefit the heart and spleen, nourish the liver and blood, and benefit the popularity.

The Empress

Now we look at the portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi, which is not beautiful, but she is good at maintaining and using pearl powder for health care. She set up an institution specializing in the study of pearl efficacy, equipped with doctors to develop pearl powder and take it regularly and quantitatively for ten years. In addition to pearl powder, the lipstick, rouge and powder of Empress Dowager Cixi are all natural materials. For example, rouge is made by mashing natural roses, lipstick is made by impatiens, and perfume powder is made by adding natural spices to rice flour, motherwort and pearl powder.

Empress Dowager Cixi also has a facial massage artifact-Taiping Car, which is made of precious materials such as jade, Ma Yao, gold and stone. T-shaped, with a roller at the horizontal end and a long handle in the middle. The roller rolls back and forth on facial acupoints, promoting facial blood circulation, promoting metabolism and eliminating wrinkles.

Empress Lv Zhi of Emperor Gaozu.

Lv Hou likes to eat tremella. After Liu Bang ruled the country, Lv Hou still liked to eat tremella, although there were more valuable tonics for her to enjoy. She must have tremella soup for breakfast every morning.

Tremella is called "civilian bird's nest". Sexual taste is sweet, light and flat. Contains protein, sugar, inorganic salt, vitamin B, fat, crude fiber and other ingredients. Tremella fuciformis is rich in natural gum, which has the function of nourishing yin and moistening skin. Taking tremella frequently can not only enrich subcutaneous tissue, make skin delicate and elastic, but also remove chloasma and freckles on the face.

Princess Taiping

It is said that Princess Taiping used peach blossom and black-bone chicken blood for beauty. Picking peach blossoms on the third day of the third lunar month, drying in the shade and grinding into fine powder; At the beginning of July, take black-bone chicken blood, mix it with peach blossom powder, and apply proper amount to face and other parts when using. It is said that this prescription can nourish the skin, promote the skin metabolism, and make the face as white as snow and the body as white as a vegetable.