Beauty in Al-Andalus.

The ideal body.

Ibn Hazm told in the book "The Necklace of the Dove", which liked the Andalusians women wide hips narrow waist but whose gait was slow and swaying. As for the breast, it seems that not like were too large. The physician Ibn Said, has left us a recipe that was used to prevent breast grow too and should apilcarse during adolescence: "To prevent the breasts are too big they untarán with iron slag and rose oil, it will crush damn, this spice is kneaded with water and placed in bandages, with it all. breasts will also be covered with pieces of linen submersed in vinegar and white lily bulbs be crushed with vinegar and water and bandaged with this too for 3 consecutive times per month. 2 grindstones is will crush with a little vinegar, with the above described, over breasts every day and be effective. "

Personal grooming.

Muslim women invariably wore long hair, two locks of hair and curling was cut to frame the face.

Regarding makeup, it is known that women used to be Al-Andalus rouge on her cheeks. The colored cheeks were noted on a clear complexion with freckles and spots, ie, either bleached complexion. They wore makeup eyes with Kohl or antimony sulfide. We also noticed that women andalusíes arms and soles of the feet adorned with henna.

As for body hair, we are aware of a prescription to control excess thereof, especially in the armpits and pubic. These parts should be rubbed with an ointment made with root pepper, alum, water and vinegar henbane. It was an inhibitor of hair growth that should be applied at puberty. A treatment for hair removal was to slather quicklime, ant eggs, cooking oil frogs and geckos.

Referring to female private parts, recipes designed to prepare women for sex and make it more pleasurable preserved, it pays special attention to moisturize and tighten the vagina or vulva rejuvenate damaged as a result of childbirth.