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Saturday 7 November 2015

Elizabethan & Contemporary Hair Treatments

Elizabethan method -
How to make the hair blonde like gold:

Take roots of ivy and shave them well and mince them into tiny bits and make them into water in the alembic, with this water wash the head with a sponge and in 8 days your hair will become like gold.

Contemporary method -
Hair bleach:

Sodium carbonate peroxide, sodium peroxide, or sodium perborate are made by reacting molecules with hydrogen peroxide. When the result is added to water, the hydrogen peroxide is released. Borax also works by releasing hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Elizabethan method -
How to remove hair so that it'll never come back:

Take 2 ounces of quicklime, 1 ounce of arsenic, and as much rock alum as you could fi tin a chestnut, and grind it all together in a powder, then knead with gold. Paste it where you want the hair to fall out and leave it for the time it takes to say two 'Our Fathers' then wash it off.

Contemporary method -
Lemon and sugar scrub:

Mix 2 tablespoon of sugar and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice with 1/2 a cup of water. Apply i ton your skin and the hair in the same direction the hair is growing. Leave it on for 15 minutes, then wash off.

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