Post by yumehime on Nov 9, 2013 8:52:28 GMT -5
oshiroi recipe
This site give a modern recipe for white makeup using glycerin. From the looks of it, the water based white should work the same way as geisha grade paint. I don't keep minerals on hand for the pigment, so I may play with white french clay or rice flour later with glycerin and see what I think.
However, I'm pretty sure there wasn't glycerin in period Japan. I wondered if honey or agar would make a similar oily texture while remaining water soluble.
Also, every site I see stresses the importance of the waxy base before applying the white, yet so few mention what it's made of.
bintsuke-abura
This site actually says it's hardened wax and chamomile oil. I haven't be able to tell if chamomile is period for Japan or not. I also wonder why chamomile and not another type of oil. Dose anyone have experience with this type of oil?
Additionally, what kind of wax? Would plant based wax behave differently than bee's wax in this application? Or is it perhaps closer to a resin like frankincense?
There is also mention in the text of switching to rice powder after white lead was found to be dangerous. If this happened in period, given rice polishing was still crude, would this give a slight pink or cream cast to the pigment?
This site give a modern recipe for white makeup using glycerin. From the looks of it, the water based white should work the same way as geisha grade paint. I don't keep minerals on hand for the pigment, so I may play with white french clay or rice flour later with glycerin and see what I think.
However, I'm pretty sure there wasn't glycerin in period Japan. I wondered if honey or agar would make a similar oily texture while remaining water soluble.
Also, every site I see stresses the importance of the waxy base before applying the white, yet so few mention what it's made of.
bintsuke-abura
This site actually says it's hardened wax and chamomile oil. I haven't be able to tell if chamomile is period for Japan or not. I also wonder why chamomile and not another type of oil. Dose anyone have experience with this type of oil?
Additionally, what kind of wax? Would plant based wax behave differently than bee's wax in this application? Or is it perhaps closer to a resin like frankincense?
There is also mention in the text of switching to rice powder after white lead was found to be dangerous. If this happened in period, given rice polishing was still crude, would this give a slight pink or cream cast to the pigment?