Hair Care
Tips
In today's
world, it seems that almost any
topic is open for debate. While I
was gathering facts for this
article, I was quite surprised to
find some of the issues about
hair care I thought were settled
are actually still being openly
discussed.
Health,
strength and beauty of hair
depends primarily on its nerve
vigor and the good circulation of
the oily scalp secretion which
gives it gloss and luster. Beauty
is not so much a matter of color
where hair is concerned. If your
hair has a fine glow, a rich
sheen, is thick and long, it will
be beautiful irrespective of its
pigmentation. Hair often makes an
otherwise plain person beautiful.
And practically every woman, if
she cares to make the effort, may
have beautiful hair.
SOME HAIR
HINTS
If you have
the least suspicion of a curl in
your hair, brushing around rather
than straight will
bring it
out. Do not worry if you shed
your hair. It is natural for the
hair to shed — and to keep
right on growing in again. Only
see to it that the ingrowth is
equal to the loss by
shedding.
No young
girl should use a rat. Metal
combs should be tabooed. Keep the
hairbrush you use for dandruff
stiff, the "polishing" brush may
be softer. Use a hair net that
matches your own hair color, and
do not get too small a one.
Remove snarls and tangles in the
hair gently, with fingers, before
brushing. The three-weekly or
monthly shampoo is a good rule.
If you wash your hair too often,
it will turn dry and brittle and
change color.
The hair
should never be worn "done up"
constantly. This is injurious
because every part of the hair
should have frequent air and sun
baths. For normal shampoo employ
Castile, tar or vegetable soaps,
and Green soap for oily hair. A
good egg shampoo may be made of
an egg, thoroughly beaten, one
tablespoon alcohol, four ounces
bay rum, a pinch of borax, and
four ounces of Castile soap mixed
in a pint of hot water, to be
used when cool.
Hair that
is blonde or ruddy, as well as
gray hair, may be washed with
Castile soap jelly plus a
quarter-teaspoonful of borax.
Always comb and brush thoroughly,
with fingertip massage. After
shampooing is the best time for
scalp massage, hair pulling and
skin loosening.
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DRY
SHAMPOO AND SCALP
MASSAGE
The
scalp and hair should be
cleansed between
shampoos. For this
purpose the "dry
shampoo" is necessary.
It
is actually a form of
scalp massage.
Preparations of orris,
corn meal and other dry
shampoo powders are not
recommended.
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They stick,
and it is hard to get them out of
the hair. A vigorous rubbing of
the scalp after the hair has been
parted, using a small piece of
muslin over the tip of the
finger, is best. Hot and cold
applications are good, with or
without shampoo, especially if
the hair is falling. Remember
that the hair should not be
"hot-air" dried.
The hot-air
cone used for the purpose in
hairdressing establishments
destroys the hair. Human hair
should always be dried by
hand.
Scalp
massage makes the hair grow and
prevents many hair troubles. A
five-minute fingertip massage,
night and morning, is the one
ounce of prevention worth a pound
of cure. The electrical massage
by a professional (after a
shampoo), the violet ray, and the
rubber-disk vibrator are all
excellent for the hair. They
strengthen and
stimulate.
HAIR
TONICS
Massage is
the first and best hair tonic.
Though a good scalp lotion may
stimulate circulation, massage
always does so more directly. In
general it will be wise to
remember that tonics are meant
for specific purposes of cure for
hair disorders, rather than for
common use.
A little
refined beef marrow rubbed gently
into the hair roots is a good
natural tonic (though an
old-fashioned one) and together
with plenty of fresh air and
sunshine, does more for the hair
than all the compounded tonics
and "restorers" marketed. Every
woman can keep her hair in good
condition if she chooses to. If
she cannot give it attention in
the morning she should do so at
night.
The
information about hair care
presented here will do one of two
things: either it will reinforce
what you know about hair care or
it will teach you something new.
Both are good outcomes.
HAIR
TROUBLES
Most hair
troubles could be prevented in
the start by ordinary good care
of the hair, and the maintenance
of the state of general good
health. Of course, various
diseases affect the hair: fever
dries it out and makes it fall;
syphilis and other sex diseases
poison and destroy it. Some skin
diseases have the same effect. In
general, if you are healthy,
broadly speaking, your hair will
be healthy too.
Dandruff—What
we have to deal with in dandruff
is a horny layer cast off by the
scalp. This layer thickens,
closes the pores, diminishes the
hair's oil supply, and prevents
the perspiration glands from
getting rid of waste.
Soon the
hair loses tone and color, and is
covered with whitish powder. Then
it starts to itch and fall. In an
advanced state of the disease,
the hair falls out, and blood
crusts form on the scalp as a
result of scratching. Digestive
disorders, toxic elements in the
blood or local irritation may
cause dandruff, and it is
communicable.
Daily care
of the scalp, massage and
brushing, if persisted in when
the disorder first appears, are
very beneficial.
The crude
oil massage of the scalp, not the
hair, is excellent and often
effects a cure. A massage every
night, using Vaseline or olive
oil, together with repeated
shampoos, also helps to do away
with dandruff.
Although
pomades in general should be
avoided, a pomade with a
precipitated sulfur base, mixed
with glycerin, rose-water,
lanolin, and soap, or a sulfur
ointment or cream kills the
dandruff germ.
There is an
"oily dandruff," also, though the
disease is most commonly a dry
scalp one. Shampoo with tincture
of Green soap should cure this
type of the disease in about a
week's time. If you have
dandruff, observe a regular diet,
and stick as much as possible to
milk and fresh fruit.
Falling
Hair.—An acid
condition of the blood encourages
the hair to fall. Correct it and
you will have removed the cause
of your complaint. The use of the
violet ray and the vibrator,
which hold down the tendency to
an oily scalp, is also valuable
for hair treatment in this
connection. So, too, are hot and
cold applications.
HAIR
DISEASES WHICH SHOULD NOT
OCCUR
Favus,
the development of yellow scalp
crusts, accompanied by severe
itching, bald spots and a musty
odor, is a dirt disease, hence
inexcusable in a woman, unless as
a result of infection. To remove
it the scalp must be soaked in
olive oil for a few days,
carbolic acid being mixed with it
in a weak solution, the hair
pulled out of the most infected
areas, the crusts removed, and
the whole scalp shampooed with an
antiseptic soap.
Ringworm
is usually a gift of those evil
things, the "common property"
comb and brush, or the patent
hair clipper. Rubbing with sulfur
ointment, washing with bichloride
soap, or painting with iodine, to
precede the application of a
cleansing ointment, is the
treatment. It is dangerous since
it may result in
baldness.
Head
lice (which may be cured
by saturating the hair with
kerosene or crude petroleum at
night,
wrapping in
a towel to retain fumes, and
following by antiseptic soap
shampoo) is a most disgusting
trouble, and unless communicated
cannot occur except as a result
of neglect and uncleanness. The
possibility of contagion
constitutes the menace of all
three of these diseases.
Is there
really any information about hair
care that is nonessential? We all
see things from different angles,
so something relatively
insignificant to one may be
crucial to another.
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Hair
Care Home
Remedies
- Tame your frizzy
hair by rubbing coconut
oil into your hands and
applying sparingly onto
your hair. You don't
want to overdo it
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Top Tips For Great
Holiday
Hair
- When you are away from
home in a different
climate your hair will
be subjected to weather
it is not used to.
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About the Author
Michael Fortomas is a teacher
of Biology and his Free Guide
"151 Beauty Tips" is a look at
specific tips, old and new, to
help women meet the current
perception of our societal
definition of beauty.
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