Kohl

Uaz and Meszemt. Green and black cosmetic used for painting the eyelids and eyebrows in order to make the eyes look large. Healing properties were also ascribed to the use of it; for in the Leyden Museum there is a toilet box with four divisions, and the purposes of the different preparations are thus described; “for opening the sight,” “for expelling tears,” “for expelling the flower,” “daily eye-paint.” Sulphide of lead, sulphate of lead, green carbonate of copper appear to have entered largely into the composition of kohl, which points distinctly to commercial intercourse with the east from the earliest period of Egyptian history. (See Stibium .)