Chapter 630: Chapter 631 Cochineal
Nian Shutong felt that facial masks were definitely a great way to make money. According to the Earth knowledge she held, it was said that the money from won and children was the easiest to earn.
Won, for the sake of beauty, were definitely willing to spend money; if there were those who could skip that step, then for their children, they would be even more willing.
Having thought this through, Nian Shutong went to the silk factory and found so offcut silk threads—it didn’t need to be the best quality, just as long as it was silk thread.
After getting the silk, Nian Shutong’s next step was to study the effects of the facial mask.
She checked and found that facial masks generally have a few major functions: hydrating, moisturizing, whitening, and removing spots. And it wasn’t just flowers that could be used; so fruits and vegetables could also make the cut.
Like cucumbers, honey, loofah, and the like.
With these basic raw materials at hand, what she needed to do was to gild the lily.
So after processing these materials, Nian Shutong left ho for a trip to the desert, prepared to concoct a batch of elixirs.
So basic herbs could be found on Blue Star, but the main ingredient in Nian Shutong’s concoction was the dicinal power brought about by her own cultivation.
In the desert, a cluster of green flas danced up and down. A closer look revealed hundreds of tiny pills densely packed within the flas.
These were the pills she planned to put in the facial masks, which had excellent moisturizing and whitening effects.
Nian Shutong concocted one batch after another.
One batch was for whitening, one for moisturizing, and another for spot removal. All these were aspects neglected by the interstellar community.
As for scar removal, it turned out to be the most common in the interstellar because simple laser repairs could imdiately restore the skin back to its original state.
After several batches of pills were concocted, Nian Shutong was ready to leave, but the little white mouse that had followed her was nowhere to be seen.
“Xiao Bai!”
“Master, I am here.”
Not far away, in a small sand pit, the little white mouse was busily burrowing back and forth.
By the ti Nian Shutong arrived, the little white mouse had just burrowed out, turned around, and said to Nian Shutong, “Master, let’s go.”
Nian Shutong didn’t move but just looked at the talking little white mouse.
“Should I call you Xiao Bai, or should I call you Xiao Hong?”
“?”
The little white mouse humanly hugged its own head with its two front paws, tilting its head to look at Nian Shutong.
What is the master talking about?
Nian Shutong squatted down, and a mirror appeared in her palm, which she used to reflect upon the little white mouse.
“Ah————”
Holding the mirror, Nian Shutong said as if she had an epiphany, “So that’s what mice are called.”
“Hehe… Master, Xiao Bai ate a little bug.”
“Who knew they were red and would even fade.”
The words of the little white mouse sparked a realization in Nian Shutong—red little bugs?
Could it be cochineal?
Recently, she had been studying beauty and costics knowledge, and lipstick was definitely a craze, also a product capable of touching a woman’s heart.
Now she had developed perfus, facial masks, and adding lipsticks would surely be the perfect addition.
“Xiao Bai, where are these bugs? Can you catch them?”
The little white mouse’s intelligent little eyes managed to exhibit a look of concern.
“Master, you wouldn’t like to eat this, right?”
This ti, it was Nian Shutong’s turn to be puzzled. When did she ever say she wanted to eat it herself?
“Don’t waste ti, start searching.”
Nian Shutong felt that sooner or later she would be driven half mad by the people and beasts around her, their comnts becoming more and more suffocating.
Xiao Bai the little white mouse sighed with a sense of resignation and began to dutifully search for cochineal insects.
His owner, he would pamper her himself.
Really, with all the things to eat, why compete with Xiao Bai for insects? It must be because Xiao Bai enjoyed them too much, and his master must have grown envious.
“Little white mouse, you do realize if you don’t block out, I can hear your thoughts!”
The voice of Nian Shutong was as if it had crawled out from the Nine Netherworld, sending a shiver through Xiao Bai the little white mouse, making all his fur stand on end.
“Master, Xiao Bai is diligently catching bugs.”
Xiao Bai the little white mouse certainly exerted his utmost effort, working hard to dig up cochineal insects.
Nian Shutong was just talking, not really doing anything. She squatted down too, helping Xiao Bai the little white mouse catch the bugs.
These cochineal insects parasitized the cacti unique to the desert.
The human and the mouse dug from dawn till dusk, getting pricked by cactus needles countless tis, to the point where Xiao Bai the little white mouse felt like leaking water if he were to drink.
The sunset ca late in these parts, so they kept digging for a good while longer, until around ten o’clock at night when they finally stopped.
Although they had spent a long ti, the bounty was substantial.
Nian Shutong, with Xiao Bai the little white mouse who had lost all will, returned to the small wooden house.
Xiao Bai the little white mouse, upon reaching the place, went limp and found a spot to flip over and lie down, not wanting to move anymore.
Nian Shutong, beside him, didn’t mind him. He was truly exhausted, so she let him rest.
As for herself, Nian Shutong first had a bit to eat, finding the food Master Fan had left her in the kitchen. After eating, she went out again. This ti, she was looking for so honey to make lipstick.
Busy as she was, the sky gradually lightened.
Nian Shutong used so instrunts to pre-dry the cochineal insects, grinding them into powder.
Then, she found a container to pour the powdered cochineal into, added so water, and heated it to around sixty degrees to obtain a relatively clean cochineal red liquid.
Next, she filtered this liquid to obtain a lump of pignt, then let the pignt naturally air dry and ground it into powder, resulting in cochineal powder.
Finally, in a pot, she added olive oil and honey, letting them naturally lt together. Then she added the cochineal powder and so vitamin E, stirring until evenly mixed. After it cooled, she poured it into molds and placed them in the refrigerator for about thirty minutes. Once they were cooled and demolded, she had a lipstick.
After all the trouble Nian Shutong went through, she finally had five lipsticks. Holding them, she once again found Ji Sisi.
“Mr. Nian?”
“This is for you, give it a try.”
A simple version of lipstick was handed to Ji Sisi.
“This thing is called—’don’t eat it!'”
Nian Shutong quickly grabbed Ji Sisi’s wrist, stopping her from attempting to put the lipstick in her mouth.
“Hold on, watch .”
Nian Shutong then demonstrated how to apply lipstick to Ji Sisi. When the red lips appeared on her own face, Ji Sisi thought Mr. Nian looked incredibly beautiful!
Nian Shutong, already fair-skinned, looked even more stunning after the lipstick enhanced her color, perfectly complenting the teardrop mole at the corner of her eye.
“Mr. Nian, you’re so beautiful.”
“Thank you.”
Nian Shutong wasn’t embarrassed at all but asked, pointing to the lipstick in Ji Sisi’s hand, “If I were to sell this, do you think people would buy it?”
“They would! Definitely, I want to buy them all for Mr. Nian to use.”
Ji Sisi declared her resolve, only to receive an intimidating glare from Nian Shutong. She let out a ‘heh heh’ and said, “I really would buy it. It feels like after putting this on, the whole person becos more spirited.”
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