( 1500 BCE). Cosmetic ingredients such as cinnamon bark and other spice components - used for fragrances - alongside copper kohl sticks were exported from the towns of Pomparippu and Kadiramalai-Kandarodai in Tamraparni (now, Sri Lanka) to ancient Egypt.

Additionally, the pioneering Muslim scholar ibn Abi Shaybah described in a legal compilation how to apply kohl to the eye, as narrated