Chapter 55 Lipstick for My Wife
The canned camellia oil bottle filled with flower petals quickly shrank and melted in the boiling water, and the pigment and natural fragrance of the flowers were all integrated into the camellia oil.
Seeing that it was almost done, Lin Heng fished out the flower residue in the jar and added new petals. After repeating this several times, this half jar of camellia oil had turned deep red and exuded a faint floral scent.
For the last time, Lin Heng added a large amount of flowers again and then placed it aside.
"Time for lunch." Seeing that Lin Heng was almost done, Lin's mother spoke.
Lunch was rice, and the side dish was stir-fried badger meat with sour beans, a first-class dish that went well with rice. Lin Heng ate two big bowls of it.
After finishing his meal, he went to make his own flower essential oil. He poured out half of the soaked flower essential oil, mixed it with oil and beeswax in a ratio of 4:1.5, and heated it in water.
During the heating process, the beeswax will blend with the oil and become a relatively viscous light red liquid.
Then put the liquid into a bamboo tube prepared in advance and wait for it to cool down, and a lipstick is ready.
The first time, Lin Heng made fewer, only eight.
Caiyun looked at the eight thumb-thick bamboo tubes and asked curiously, "Is it ready?"
"Yes." Lin Heng nodded.
"What is it used for?" Caiyun asked again.
"Let's talk about it after it's done. We can't tell you now." Lin Heng shook his head. He wasn't sure whether it was successful or not, so it was better not to say anything.
It would be so humiliating to speak up and fail.
"Caiyun, please help me wash my hair." Xiulan shouted at this time.
"Okay." Caiyun agreed and walked over.
"Let me do it." Lin Heng said.
"My hair is long and hard to wash. Please check it first," said Xiulan.
"Okay then." Lin Heng didn't force it, as he really hadn't washed it much.
In that era, there was no convenient thing like shampoo. People used rice washing water plus crushed soapberry to wash their hair.
The cheapest soap was only 70 or 80 cents a piece, and good sulfur soap cost 1.5 yuan, which was too expensive for farmers.
You can buy a second-hand piece of clothing with the price of a bar of soap.
Lin Heng didn't have soap at home, only some tooth powder, which he used for brushing his teeth in the morning, and soapberry was used for washing clothes and other things.
Lin Heng thought about it and his powerful memory after his rebirth reminded him of the ancient soap-making method he watched in the video in his previous life.
Communication was inconvenient in that era and there were no telephones, so everyone was even more cautious about their own skills for fear of them being leaked.
To learn carpentry, you have to be an apprentice for two years first, and then it depends on the master's mood before he will teach you.
It’s nothing like in later generations, where the videos shot on the Internet have all the specific steps and ingredient ratios typed out, and you can follow them and you’ll be able to make it after one or two times.
The lipstick made by Lin Heng was based on his memory. He was very interested in videos about ancient methods. He had watched a lot of them in his previous life and had even tried them himself.
Lin Heng thought about it and decided that next time he hunted, he would save the fat to make soap. If the experiment was successful, he would pass this craft to Xiulan and let her make it and sell it on the street.
Later on, you can even open a small handicraft workshop and make some money.
Much of the knowledge of later generations is also a powerful asset in this era.
After Xiulan finished washing her hair, Lin Heng noticed that his lipstick had also solidified, which proved that he had remembered the proportions correctly.
After cutting the bamboo in half, eight lipsticks three or four centimeters long are ready. Since there are no spiral lipstick boxes like in later generations, they can only be wrapped in cloth and used.
"Xiu Lan, try it!"
Lin Heng tried it on his hand first and felt it was okay, so he gave it to Xiulan.
"Is this for wiping the mouth?" Xiulan blinked.
"Yes, it's a lip-hydrating lip balm that I made myself. You can try it." Lin Heng grinned.
Xiulan understood that Lin Heng had been busy for her for so long, and her heart suddenly felt warm, as if she was back to the time when they first met.
"Come, let me apply it for you." Seeing his wife in a daze, Lin Heng simply did it himself.
Xiulan's lips are chubby, full and of moderate thickness. They are very standard and natural M-shaped lips, but they are a little chapped, making them look a little pale and dull.
After applying the lipstick, it immediately turned into cinnabar red, with the oily and smooth feeling of beeswax and oil.
With this brightening, she looked much more beautiful, and even Lin Heng felt a little amazed.
This is just a lipstick. If his wife draws on her eyebrows and wears a cheongsam, Lin Heng can’t even imagine how beautiful she would be.
An absolutely classic oriental beauty.
"Wow, it's so beautiful!" Caiyun couldn't help but praise.
Then he turned his head and looked at his second brother Lin Heng, and said jealously: "It turns out that second brother has been busy for so long to make lipstick for sister-in-law Xiulan. It's a pity that your sister who is taking care of your baby doesn't even have one."
"Yeah, your mother's mouth is sore, and I didn't even give you one." Mother Lin also joked. She was actually very happy to see her son being so nice to Xiulan.
"Lin Heng, how did you learn how to make lipstick?" Sister-in-law Liu Juan was extremely envious. Xiulan was originally prettier than her, and after applying this lipstick, she immediately looked like a bride.
"Your skills are amazing. The lipsticks you make can even be sold." The eldest brother, Lin's father, and Carpenter Liang all looked surprised.
They had only seen women from wealthy families using this kind of thing, but they didn't expect that Lin Heng could make it himself.
"Of course I learned it from books. I went to the library in the city and read a lot of ancient books. It's written in the books." Lin Heng said with a smile. This was not a lie, it was indeed in the books.
"As for the lipstick, of course there are shares for you guys." Lin Heng smiled and gave one each to Caiyun, his mother, and his sister-in-law, and gave the rest to Xiulan.
Xiulan felt a little embarrassed being stared at by everyone, so she went into the house with the lipstick on, feeling extremely sweet in her heart.
After Caiyun and the others got it, they immediately tried it on their mouths, and took a mirror from the house to look at themselves. They were so beautiful.
Caiyun is already pretty, with fair skin. Once she puts on this lipstick, she looks stunning. However, her figure is far inferior to Xiulan's and cannot compare to hers.
There are actually always many beautiful women and handsome men in rural areas, but they just don’t know how to dress up, so they look rustic.
"It's too red. It's okay for you young people to use it, but it's not suitable for me." Lin's mother took a look and wiped it off.
She actually wanted to put it on, but was afraid of being gossiped about by the women in the village, after all, she was so old.
"It's okay. I'll make you a colorless one some other day." Lin Heng understood his mother's psychology and quickly added.
It was indeed his mistake to forget this.
"It's incredible that Lin Heng can even do this."
Sister-in-law Liu Juan looked at herself in the mirror and felt more and more that the family had been divided up too early.
How come before the family split up, Lin Heng looked like a hopeless case, but now that the family split up, he's hunting and doing this and that again.
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