The following ideas are from a reprint of Victorian Ladies Hair Care & Grooming*. These are just a few highlights of how to care for the long hair that dominated the Victorian Era. The book contains other tips on color, cutting, removal, beards and the like. Imcluding recipes for shampoos, depilatories and tints. I shall just be sharing the average hair care routine that is recommended in this publication.
"The glory of long and beautiful hair is and ever has been universally understood and appreciated by the world at large, and its charms are acknowledged to be among the most alluring of the many belonging to womankind."
"Beautiful hair may be an inheritance, or, it may result from systematic and patient care... Be it one or the other, constant "grooming" is necessary to the preservation and perfection of its beauty."
"In fact, it is well to have two brushes- a stiff one for the hair and a softer one for the scalp. And there's a knack in brushing... Draw the brush firmly, though gently, over the scalp and down through the entire length of the hair at each stroke..."
"Under no circumstances endeavor to comb out tangled locks by beginning at the scalp and dragging the comb thought the hair, unmindful alike of suffering and the denudation of the scalp."
"Once the hair is free from tangles, the brush then comes into play as a beautifier... The old fashioned rule of fifty or a hundred strokes of the brush each night... accomplishes this double purpose."
"... it should be washed at least every fortnight, and, if convenient, no harm will result from a weekly shampoo."
*Originally published in 1896, reprinted 2009 by Dakota Prairie Treasures
The following ideas are from a reprint of Victorian Ladies Hair Care & Grooming*. These are just a few highlights of how to care for the long hair that dominated the Victorian Era. The book contains other tips on color, cutting, removal, beards and the like. Imcluding recipes for shampoos, depilatories and tints. I shall just be sharing the average hair care routine that is recommended in this publication.
"The glory of long and beautiful hair is and ever has been universally understood and appreciated by the world at large, and its charms are acknowledged to be among the most alluring of the many belonging to womankind."
"Beautiful hair may be an inheritance, or, it may result from systematic and patient care... Be it one or the other, constant "grooming" is necessary to the preservation and perfection of its beauty."
"In fact, it is well to have two brushes- a stiff one for the hair and a softer one for the scalp. And there's a knack in brushing... Draw the brush firmly, though gently, over the scalp and down through the entire length of the hair at each stroke..."
"Under no circumstances endeavor to comb out tangled locks by beginning at the scalp and dragging the comb thought the hair, unmindful alike of suffering and the denudation of the scalp."
"Once the hair is free from tangles, the brush then comes into play as a beautifier... The old fashioned rule of fifty or a hundred strokes of the brush each night... accomplishes this double purpose."
"... it should be washed at least every fortnight, and, if convenient, no harm will result from a weekly shampoo."
*Originally published in 1896, reprinted 2009 by Dakota Prairie Treasures
