Your ShelfYour Projects

Dyes for the Hair

25%

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 6.

Read the full edition

Dyes for the Hair.

Some time since, the editors of the Chemist and Druggist (Eng.) employed a chemist to make analysis of some of the most popular hair dyes. He found the essential ingredients of all of them to be lead and sulphur. Here is the result of the analysis of “Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer.”
A bottle containing 6 fluid ounces furnished 70.2 grains of sulphur, mixed with sulphate of calcium (milk of sulphur having evidently been used in this case) also lead, corresponding to 50.8 grains of acetate of lead.
As will be noticed, the composition of this so-called vegetable compound is anything but what is claimed for it. Nothing but the most unscrupulous dishonesty could lead its manufacturers to give it such a name. Don’t be ashamed of grey hairs. If you attempt to hide them, you will more probably than not suffer a severe penalty.—Sel.