TREATMENT OF THE HAIR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 75

TREATMENT OF THE HAIR.

Ten minutes every night will answer for a few pentle treatments to keep the scalp ip cood condition through niawase : use a rotary motion, and take three finfrers for this, keeping the thumbs pressed firmly on the hack of tlie head as a brace. This will form sufficient friction to keep th? scalp iD pood condition when oiK-e arrived there. X-ever twist the hair ti-rhUv. as it breaks it. and the use of the curling iron not only does the same, but gradually gives to hiir a cri«-p. burned appeirance. If givv hair ha." the warm irons v&ed on it, the white hairs become .yellowed, destroying the "silvery" (jloss sc much admired in grey or white hair. Hair dyes and bleaches render the hair brittle, and in course of time it falls out ao thouerh kept too wa.vm. If the scalp becomes "bound.*' will not move when rubbed, it needs massage and a tonic. Here ii? one said to prevent baldness and increa?* the growth of the hair : — Alcohol, 8oz: castor oil, Boz ; oil thyme (white), 15 dr^ns ; drachm each of oil lavender, oil bergamot, and tincture cantharides. It •should bo applied twice a day, with friction, for two weeks, and then used twice a rreek as a dressing. A bay rum tonic greatly fancied is comix)? "d of glveerine, 2oz ; tincture of ran'haride?, 2 drachms; aqua ammonia, 2 drachms ; rosewater. loz ; bay rum, sJcz. Moisten the scalp with this every j night, ufing the rotary motion with the fingers to produce friction, and continue

its use occasionally after a daily massage with it for a month.