📚 Cosmetics

Books with cosmetics on their catalogue record, first published between 1656 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cosmetics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,368 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Studies in ancient technology	R. J. Forbes	1955	15
	The makeup artist handbook	Gretchen Davis	2008	12
	Cosmetic Dermatology	Zoe Diana Draelos	2009	11
	A consumer's dictionary of cosmetic ingredients	Ruth Winter	1974	10
	Color me beautiful	Carole Jackson	1980	10
	Mary Kay	Mary Kay Ash	1981	10
	Fire and ice	Andrew P. Tobias	1656	8
	Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps	Poucher, W. A.	1975	8
	Make-up & skin-care	Sally Norton	1971	7
	Cosmetic microbiology	Philip A. Geis	2006	7
	Max Factor	Fred E. Basten	2008	7
	Perfumes and their preparation	George William Askinson	1890	6
	The Cosmetic industry	Estrin	1984	6
	The art of makeup	Kevyn Aucoin	1994	6
	Bobbi Brown beauty	Bobbi Brown	1997	6
	Cosmetic Formulation	Heather A. E. Benson	2019	6
	Perfumery and kindred arts	R. S. Cristiani	1877	5
	The essence of beauty	Aytoun Ellis	1960	5
	A history of make-up	Maggie Angeloglou	1970	5
	Milady's skin care and cosmetic ingredients dictionary	Natalia Michalun	1994	5
	"Vogue" Make-up	Juliet Cohen	2002	5
	Introduction to cosmetic formulation and technology	Gabriella Baki	2015	5
	Perfumery, its manufacture and use	Campbell Morfit	1853	4
	The mystery and lure of perfume	C. J. S. Thompson	1927	4
	Modern cosmetics	Francis Chilson	1934	4
	The chemistry and manufacture of cosmetics	Maison G. De Navarre	1941	4
	Making faces	Kevyn Aucoin	1997	4
	Good Gifts from the Home	Kelly Reno	2000	4
	Miracles Happen	Mary Kay Ash	2003	4
	The Ultimate Natural Beauty Book	Josephine Fairley	2004	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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