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Cosmetics InformationEveryday Route to Care for your Hair
by:
Michael Fortomas
Health, strength and beauty of hair depends primarily on its nerve vigor and the nice circulation of the oily scalp secretion which gives it gloss and luster. Beauty is not so more a matter of color wherever
hair is concerned. If your hair has a fine glow, a rich sheen, is thick and long, it wish be beautiful regardless of its pigmentation. Hair often does an otherwise plain person beautiful. And much
every woman, if she cares to do the effort, may have beautiful hair.
SOME HAIR HINTS
If you have the least suspicion of a curl in your hair, brushing about rather than straight wish
bring it out. Do not worry if you shed your hair. It is natural for the hair to shed — and to support right on growing in again. Only see to it that the growth
is equal to the loss by shedding.
No young girl should use a rat. Metal combs should be tabooed. Support the brush
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. Move out snarls and tangles in the hair gently, with fingers, before brushing. The three-weekly or monthly shampoo is a nice rule. If you wash your hair too often, it wish turn dry and brittle and change color.
The hair should ne'er
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 nice egg shampoo may be ready-made of an egg, thoroughly beaten, one tablespoon alcohol, four ounces bay rum, a pinch of borax, and four ounces of Castilla
soap mixed in a pint of hot water, to be used once
cool.
Hair that is blonde or ruddy, as well as gray hair, may be washed with Castilla soap jelly plus
a quarter-teaspoonful of borax. Always comb and brush thoroughly, with finger-tip massage. After
shampooing is the better time for scalp massage, hair pull and skin loosening.
DRY SHAMPOO AND SCALP MASSAGE
The scalp and hair should be cleaned between shampoos. For this intention the "dry shampoo" is
necessary. It is really a form of scalp massage. Preparations of orris, corn meal and another dry
shampoo powders are not recommended. 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, exploitation a small piece of fabric 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 intention in hairdressing establishments destroys
the hair. Human hair should always be dried by hand.
Scalp massage does the hair grow and prevents galore hair troubles. A five-minute finger-tip mas-
sage, night and morning, is the one ounce of bar worth a pound of cure. The electrical massage by a professional (after a shampoo), the violet ray, and the rubber-disk vibrator are all first-class for the hair. They strengthen and stimulate.
HAIR TONICS
Massage is the 1st and better hair tonic. Although a nice scalp lotion may stimulate circulation, massage always does so more directly. In general it wish 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 nice natural tonic (though an old-fashioned one) and together with plenty of fresh air and sunshine, does more for the hair than all the combined
tonics and "restorers" marketed. Every woman can support her hair in nice condition if she chooses to. If she cannot give it attention in the morning she shoulcf
do so at night.
HAIR TROUBLES
Most hair troubles could be prevented in the start by ordinary nice care of the hair, and the
maintenance of the state of general nice health. Of course, various diseases affect the hair: fever dries it out and does it fall; syph and another sex diseases poison and destroy it. Several skin diseases have the same effect. In general, if you are healthy, loosely speaking, your hair wish 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 acquiring rid of waste. Shortly 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. Organic process disorders, cyanogenetic 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 once
the disorder 1st appears, are really beneficial. The crude oil massage of the scalp, not the hair, is first-class and often effects a cure. A massage every night, exploitation mineral jelly or olive oil, together with perennial shampoos, besides helps to do away with dandruff. Although pomades in general should be avoided, a pomade with a precipitated sulphur base, mixed with glycerine, rose-water, lanoline, and soap, or a sulphur ointment or cream kills the dandruff germ.
There is an "oily dandruff," also, although the illness is most normally a dry scalp one. Shampoo
with tincture of Green soap should cure this type of the illness in just about a week's time. If you have dandruff, observe a regular diet, and stick as more as possible to milk and fresh fruit.
Falling Hair.—An acid condition of the blood encourages the hair to fall. Correct it and you wish
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 besides 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, attended
by severe itching, bald spots and a
musty odor, is a dirt disease, therefore inexcusable in a woman, unless as a result of infection. To move out 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 force
out of the most infected areas, the crusts removed, and the whole scalp shampooed with an antiseptic soap.
Ringworm is normally a gift of those evil things, the "common property" comb and brush, or the
patent hair clipper. Rubbing with sulphur ointment, washing with dichloride 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 kerosine or crude crude oil at night,
wrapping in a towel to retain fumes, and following by antiseptic soap shampoo) is a most disgustful trouble, and unless communicated cannot occur except as a result of neglect and uncleanliness. The possibility of contagion constitutes the menace of all
three of these diseases.
Just just about the author:
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Fortomas is a teacher of Biology and his Free Manual "151 Beauty Tips" is a look at specific tips, old and new, to help women meet the current perception of our social definition of beauty.
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