The Toilette of Health Beauty And Fashion Embracing the Economy of the Beard

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The Toilette of Health Beauty And Fashion Embracing the Economy of the Beard
Taylor, W. C. (William Cooke), 1800-1849
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Tliis powder docs not Btain the skin, like the wash made of aquafortis and assaying silver.
Obs. — It has been asserted that the hair may be stained black by impregnating it with lard, mixed with minium and lime : but this composition, we apprehend, would produce only the chestnut color of which we are here speaking. The hair may likewise be turned black by different vegetable substances boiled in wine, witli which the head is to be washed several times a day ; but this operation ought to be co
...ntinued for some time. The substances usually preferred for this pur- pose are, leaves of the mulberry, myrtle, fig, senna, raspberry, arbutus, artichoke ; the roots of the caper tree ; the bark of the walnut and pomegranate ; the rind of walnuts, shumac, skins of beans, gall nuts, and cones of cypress. It is also necessary to use a leaden comb. The same object may be attained by using a comb dipped in extract of lead.
At Alleppo, in Turkey, some of the old men dye their beards, and the old women their hair with henna, which gives them a very whimsical appearance, and many of the men dye their beards black to conceal their age.


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