TO WASH THE HAIR

Shannon News, 4 September 1928, Page 4

TO WASH THE HAIR

This method applies to the girls who are shingled and to the ones who ihave long hair. When washing the .hair, always use warm, water and use either pure white soap, fresh tar soap, or .a little liquid soap which your chemist will make you. After, soaping, be careful to rinse the hair thoroughly, so that no soap remains upon it. Then rinse .finally in lukewarm water to which the juice of half a lemon has been added.

Dry your hair first with .towels; then let it hang down, .your buck, and sit fairly close to a fire, or * n e ,sun * shine. The sun and the wind will not only dry the hair more quickly, but much more beneficially than a fire. A Good Shampoo.

One of the pleasantest shampoos; for all hair, and as beneficial as any, is prepared by beating up an egg in three tablespoonfuls of , warm water—not hot, which'would .cook the egg—adding to it :a : tablespoonful of glycerine diluted with :perfumeo" water (violet or rose, about half and half) and a pinch of carbonate of potash. Besides its thorough cleansing properties, this shampoo is tonic in its effect, and strengthens the whole hair structure. BriMantine for Dull Hair. If your hair is dull, even after considerable care and attention have been expended upon it, use a little brilliah'tine. iln addition to a brush with stiff, long bristles, provide yourself with a "baby'' brush, the bristles of which ore thiek, soft and caressing. Spill a Tew drops of brilliantine upon this baby brush, and burnish the outer hair gently with it. An excellent and (inexpensive brilliantine, and one beneficial to the hair, is made by mixing together half an ounce of eamdc cologne and two ounces of deodorised petroleum,