WE BATH MORE OFTEN NOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 21

WE BATH MORE OFTEN NOW

I CRAZE FOR CLEANLINESS GROWS APACE CARE OF SHINGLE As the world grows older, it grows j cieaner. We wash more than we did t formerly, spend a small fortune on bath salts, soaps, dusting powders and eau de colognes, and consider two showers a day the very minimum of i washing during the summer months. 3 j A century ago we should have been j considered crazy. “Running risks,” | was how our great grandmothers would have described our conduct. . ! ceth must be well scrubbed twice a day, shingled hair shampooed once - . or twice a week, nails carefully manij cured, and even with two showers I daily, a hot cloth on the face regularly j to lteep the skin's pores open, is an i absolute necessity. Once a Month! Hairdressers of a tew years ago, before the advent of the shingle, were | known to advise their clientele not to } j wash their heads of luxurious hair j more than once a month. I “If you keep your brush and comb j clean, there is no need to wash your hair more often,” they would say. “It | ! dries up the natural oil.” " | How different we regard things ; nowadays can be proved by the fact ! that the shampooing of shingles or j even of long hair forms one of the : best items of trade for the hairdresser | to-day. Many women and girls are i more particular about this than about j the length of their shingles. f \ There is one story told of a lady I who visited a hairdresser some years ! ago for her shampoo. One of the I more recent apprentices was allotted | to her to wash and dress her dark sleek locks. To the girl’s amazement, the hair in course of washing gradually began to change its colour to something almost blonde. At first she thought it was the dye losing weight in the water. Rater she found that the change of colour was due to natural causes, and that in its normal state, and after a thorough wash, the lady client really possessed fair hair.