Which ancient Greek physician wrote about cosmetics in 'De materia medica'?

Which ancient Greek physician wrote about cosmetics in “De materia medica”? Dioscorides wrote De materia medica.

Pedanius Dioscorides was a first-century Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and surgeon who served in the Roman army. His five-volume work was written in Greek, probably between about 50 and 70 CE, and is better known in Western Europe by its Latin title, De materia medica, meaning “On Medical Material.”

The book is primarily a pharmacopoeia rather than a cosmetics manual. It describes hundreds of plants, along with substances from animals and minerals, explaining their identification, preparation, properties, and medical uses. Some of those preparations concerned skin care, fragrances, hair, and bodily appearance, which is why the work is relevant to the history of cosmetics.

Dioscorides is sometimes confused with Hippocrates, Galen, or Pliny the Elder. All were influential classical medical or natural-history writers, but Dioscorides is the author specifically associated with De materia medica. The text remained influential for more than 1,500 years and helped shape Greek, Arabic, Byzantine, and European pharmaceutical traditions.