Hair Doctoring | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Hair Doctoring.

A FASHIONABLE modiste gave a reporter some points on women doctoring their hair to obtain certain effects in color. She said:—

“Women are blessed with such luxuriant hirsute adornments they rarely ever become bald. If they did not attempt to doctor their hair it would never fall out, unless some scalp disease caused it. In nearly every hair store you visit will be found a hair lotion especially prepared to do something wonderful either in the way of producing extraordinary growth, or changing the color from a sandy to a golden, or as desired. Women have a fondness for experimenting with their hair, and cannot resist the temptation to try all the nostrums offered.

I have seen many a beautiful head of hair ruined by applications of lotions. I know a young married lady who moves in the highest circles. She had long, wavy, blonde hair, the envy of nine-tenths of her friends. She concluded that she wanted it a shade lighter—some one had told her that it would add to its beauty. She began by using borax and a lot of prepared stuff, guaranteed by each person who sold it to do its work effectually and without harm. Her hair is now an ugly shade of sorrel and completely dead. It is also much thinner, and will all come out, I think, in a few years. Her case is but one of many.

If women would only take into consideration the fact that health, as a rule, gives vitality to the hair, they would not use so many ineffectual remedies. It is enough to have a race of bald-headed men—may the females be spared.”— N. Y. Mail and Express.