Cosmetics in the old Greek thought has a positive meaning very valued by the authors at that time. Nowadays cosmetics though coming from the Greek word κοσμητiκη gets away from the original meaning of the Greek term and gets closer to the conceptual meaning of another Greek word, opposite in many ways: cometics-κομμωτiκη. In this article direct references from the Greek authors are collected where they clearly differentiate these two words.