Lets Talk About skin Care, Beauty And Health Tips

Q. I have been looking EVERYWHERE for this answer and so far I can only find modern skin care (which I already know about because I'm in beauty school ><).

I will greatly appreciate any and all answers one may have. Thank you!

Answer
Actually, up until right around the 1920s or so, skin care changed very little; primarily because there weren't many advancements in the technologies. Make-up has been used since the beginning of civilization, by both men and women, and the process of rendering fat into glycerin and soap, via a saponification reaction with a caustic such as lye and water as a catalyst, has prehistoric roots. Until the 1920s, the only materials anyone had for skincare, other than the aformentioned soap and a rare few others, were what they found naturally. Basically plant and animal extracts. Trial and error did land upon some useful combinations. The ancient Chinese and Egyptians are noted for relatively saphisticated technology for their time, while the Romans have been known to use compounds containing lead and mercury and a variety of others that, in hindsight, should have been passed on. Eh, if hindsight were foresight, they would've called it foresight.

Anyhoo, around the 1920s to the 1940s, chemistry developed to the point where the manipulation of the fatty alcohol chains found in nature could be reacted or otherwise acted upon or refined to make things like cetyl alcohol which is still used all of the time. Look at the ingredient dec of your conditioner. In the decades between, many more reactions have been perfected like hydrolization, istearification, and polymerization, just to name a few. Now, we even use genetic manipulation in our efforts. Its really gotten very soffisticated in the last couple of decades. Stick with beauty school. You guys are going to be like doctors soon.

If its not obvious, I'm a formulating R&D chemist in cosmetics and personal care. Sorry for the long-windedness & poor spelling which I'm not checking.

How to know what race/ancestry I am?

So, basically I am hispanic, from south america. I am more on the lighter side, though, but have always wondered what other race/ancestry I have. I mean, I know I have indigenous blood of the natives from south america, but I most have other race/ancestry. I mean my grandmother on my moms side told me, that her grandfather was black-African,. As for my dad, he told me that my grandmother (I never met her since she died when my dad was a teenager) was light skinned and had european features. In my moms case, she told me that her father (my grandfather's family) had some Italian or french ancestry along with Japanese ancestry. In all that's what they all told me, and im not sure if its true though, although there is no reason for them to lie. Sometimes I think I do have all these race/ancestries in me. 1. native ancestry: i have straight black hair 2. black ancestry: when coming out of the shower my hair becomes a bit curly (my sister had curly hair when she was a baby and as for my grandmother on my moms side, she has naturally curly hair.) 3. european: i fall more in the light skinned category, I am always told that i am light skinned by many people 4. asian: I am sometimes confused and told people that i look somewhat asian, especially when i smile. So is it possible that i have all these races in my blood, and if not how can i find out.

p.s. all my grandparents are dead, except for my moms mom, since my moms dad was much older than my grandmother (he was born in 1914 and he was in the marines during the late 1930s and he would travel around the many countries through marine sea ships). In my dad side both grandparents are dead (both were born in the early 1920s). So I dont know who to really ask, since when i ask my other relatives dont really know. I know some of you might say who cares, but im just curious.
@freethinker...thanks genius, you sound very ignorant by the way. How can just by looking at myself in the mirror will i know what race/ancestry i am, since i believe i might have many races in my blood. how the heck would i know i have them. its like telling a black person he is only black, but you never know if he/she has white or native American in them, since you dont see these features in them. thanks asshole
i once met a asian lady who had a white looking baby, and many people looked at her as if she was the foster mom, but when my moms spoke to her, she said that she really was the mom, just that the father was white....so as you can see you big idiot its not a look in the mirror scenario always,,,you dumb piece of shit

Answer
It sounds like you are of mixed race. European and Indigenous Natives of South America.
I am not sure where you come up with the African because of curly hair. Hair curl comes from a curled hair shaft and not ones race..
I also do not understand where you came up with Asian, just because someone thought you looked Asian.
Genealogy is the study and documentation of a specific direct ancestral lineage within a specific family.
Start with yourself and gather vital statistics on each generation one at a time as you proceed back.
Vital statistics are Birth, Marriage and Death dates and places.
Genealogists do not make assumptions and do not believe family stories are true without documentation.

You might want to check for your Grandfathers military record. My Father was in the Marines from 1926 - 1932, stationed in China with the 4th Marines, it took a long time to obtain the record because there was a fire in St Louis where the files are housed in the 1970's. However, I found a copy of the file in the National Archives.

DNA would give you ancient ancestry, and not what it considered modern ancestry, meaning results show traits from thousands of year ago.

One other suggestion, when asking genealogical question be polite, and do not response to stupid answers - it only encourages them.