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Mascara is a desert island make-up product for most. Making your natural lashes look longer, fuller and more defined, the best mascara can create that envious wide-eyed and brighter look. Feathered, fluttery lashes have always been a gold standard in the beauty world, with the earliest use tracing right back to the Ancient Egyptians. But our modern idea of mascara has its roots in the mid-19th Century.
Eugene Rimmel, a French perfumer and chemist, developed the first commercial mascara in 1830. Made from petroleum jelly and coal dust, it formed a black paste that could be rubbed against the lashes with a dampened brush. Unsurprising, it was very messy.
