THE HAIR.

Shannon News, 10 December 1929, Page 4

THE HAIR.

KEEPING IT HEALTHY. Lank greasy lustreless hair is a modern trouble chiefly to lack of ventilation and to worry and nerves.

If your hair is in a poor condition the worst thing you can do is to worry about it. Mental worfy will only make the hair fall more quickly or cause premature greynessj try to be philosophical about your trouble, and use up the energy so many expend in ceaseless worrying, in trying praetital measures, which will surely improve the condition, if they don’t actually effect a cure.

If it is to be kept in a perfectly healthy condition, hair needs an air bath just as often as you can give it one.

One important thing to remember is that too frequent washing of the hair merely aggravates a greasy condition. Unless one’s occupation is a dusty one, when the pores of the scalp are apt to get elogged, it is not necessary to shampoo the hair more than once fortnightly. In between times rub the scalp and hair roots with bay rum and borax. Pour a little bay rum into a saucer, and put in a pinch of borax and mix well. Apply with a piece of sponge. Then take a clean hair brush with long, fairly stiff bristles, and brush vigorously for five minutes. Each morning, if you can spare the time, treat the scalp to a dry clean. Take a small piece of ordinary tissue paper and rub the scalp with it. Replace the tissue as soon as it looks oiled. It is really surprising the amount of grease absorbed in this way.

If the hair is in a very greasy state, and it is not convenient to wash it, sprinkle a little powdered orris root on. to the scalp at bodtime. Don a boudoir cap, and retire to bed. Next morning brush out every trace of the powder. For the shampoo, use distilled water or rain water, and castile soap, or spirit soap. First wet the hair thoroughly, then pour over Borne of the lather made by dissolving the soap and rub in well. Rinse in tepid water, then give a • second application of soap and rinse several times.

Dry with hot towels or in the open air—never, as you value your locks, before a fire.