Tapputi is a
fascinating figure not only in the history of chemistry, but also in the
history of cosmetics. Her surviving recipes showed a mastery of using
scientific techniques alongside natural ingredients. Here’s what history
remembers of her:
-Mesopotamian
woman who lived around 1200 BCE
-Tablets identify
her as the mistress of a household and a manufacturer of perfume
-She was
known to have written a manual on making perfume
-Recognized
as the world’s first chemist
-The second
half of her name refers to her role as “mistress of the palace”
-Only two
mentions of her: one tablet in the Louvre, the other in the Girl Museum
-Surviving
recipes state that she used flowers, oil, and calamus, along with cyperus,
myrrh, and balsam
Source: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-3200-year-old-perfume-of-tapputi-the-first-female-chemist-in-history-came-to-life-again
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