The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03
HOW TO PRESERVE
BEAUTIFUL HAIR.


hair don't give it a soap and water sham
poo oftener than twice a year, said the
coiffeur, as she brushed out fairly
healthy looking brown tTesses and talked
, instructively to her patient while she
brushed I've been Iong enough in this
t business to learn that every suit of hair
has to be differently treated. There are
/ sealps that actually need water and
plenty of it. others that grow sore and
lrritated II too vigorously brushed and
/ this happens to be naturally fine growth
/ OF locks sadly injured by too frequent
When there is an hereditary predis-
i position to early greyness and lack of
1 natural oils IN the hair a conscientious
/ ana regular application of water fosters
/ TINS weakness. The tendency OF dry hair
/ IS to grow coarse and therefore a con-
/ slant use of artificial oils IS necessary af-
/ ter every washing The thing to do for
stiff, hard hair that is going gray is con-
/ slant brushing. In the fall of the year,
! when the proper shedding of Old hair can
De expected and again the early spring
/ when the young growth comes on, soft
/ light balloon brush is the only kind to use.
| This is the invention of a famous French
/ coiffeur. The brush is made of fine hex-
lble selected bristles so set in to the
/ wooden back that fully convex, instead
of fiat, brushing surface is presented and
! by this arrangement the bristles run
/ through the hair without tearing or
y
/ they carry away ali the loose lying dan
/ drun on the surface of the scalp and all
the dust that hangs in the tangled mesh
/ of locks.
Brushing done in this way can't hurt
/ the most sensitive SCALP. while If the
/ process is carefully gone through once
day the head can be kept so clean that it
/ actually won't need washing more than
/ once in two or three months.
/ A woman who is delicately Clearly
anu ambitious to possess fine, luxuTiant
sweet smelling hair should never fail to
/ brush her scalp and then her length OF
/ locks every night before retiring. After
! the dusty day her hair and head are as
fuH OF dust as an Old unbeaten car1et
/ and every bit of the deposit can be re-
| moved by going over her tresses and her
scalp with clean white brushes and then
bralding the locks in two loose tails down
the back, she will not only feel cleaner,
but sleep the better for the operation.
/ "Of course it is all important for the
brushes to be kept white, as bristles can
be bleached and the stiffest growth from
! hog IS back won endure constant wash
ing with soda, bOrax. ammonia or any
of the grease dissOlving alkaiis that are
advocated. Gasoline or naDtha are the
proper cleanSerS for hair brushes. After
/ they have been plunged in bowl of
| either volatile liquid and rubbed quickly
one against the other, they should be set
/ in the omen air TO dry and thus in ten
] minutes VIII be ready Tor use again.
/ "A timid person, fearful of these in
! fiammable extracts from oil can by a
1 slower but just as eff1cacious process
! clean her brushes in wheat flour. The re-
cipe for this is to dip the brushes one af-
| ter the other in a pan of flour and by
( steadily rubbing their bristle covered sur
[ faces together successfully rub away all
/ the grease and dust collected on them.
| "A head to be kept clean requires that
( the brushes be cleansed as often as three
/ times d week, and now for washing the
! head itself. When / have the care OF a
head like this, indicating the tresses I'M
der hand. 4 shampoo il in teDid water
and pure CASTLE soap once in six months,
not oftener and at the season when trees
/ and hedges are cut back I clip of guar
ter inch at the ends Of the strands. That
is quite enough pruning. After sham
poo the hair is terribly dry and stiff and
then / rub in a little of that precious
brilliantine that French chemist makes
from the oil that nature supplies IN the
Sleeps fleece.
1T is very pure, nourishing and very
lightly perfumed and looks ike a jelly
and costs a lot, but it brings the rough
ness out of hair unfailingly. After this
treatment I show my patient how to
brush her head properly every night, and
then once in six weeks. If she has been
travelling or the weather is pretty hot,
give her head what | call a secondary
cleaning. 1t is not bit less thorough
than the soap and water treatment, but
it is far less heroic and ] alternate be-
tween a cleaning with wheat flour and
one with naphtha.
Highly refined benzlne or gasoline VIII
do as we'll but naphtha hair bath Is
one sort Of cleaning a woman should
never give her own hair because II IS
both difficult and dangerous | put my
patron in a chair. tuck protecting cloths
about her neck and shoulders draw her
head back until all her hair lies out IN a
basin, and then, putting a napkin over
her face and opening a sEylight in the
studio ceiling, / pour on the naphtha,
rubbing lightly as | go, and let 1t drain
through the Ions hair into the basin. A
little rubbing, a pint of naphtha and ten
minutes time are all the requisites for
thoroughly purifying scalp and hair
When the naphtha has been carried out
! fan and open the tresses. and in two
minutes more soft and bright and sweet
smelling as fresh linen, they are ready to
be pinned up.
just as effectively but more slowly purify
her hair by shaking into 1t a handful or
wheat flour and then dividing the locks
into sections, brush out the white dust.
Doing this three or four times produces 3
painful of refuse that by its color and con-
sistency very clearly proves that the head
has been rid of an amazing accumula-
with careful brushing, cleaning and
a yearly clipping i can guarantee TO
keep hair in apple pie order provided
its pOssessOT has not let the scalp fall
into q seriously diseased condition. As
a rule though, hair that is turning gray
and falling can, in a man or woman
under 80, be checked in its evil
courses by keeping it very clean, using
a soft brush lightly and by aid of one
finger massage The charm of massage
is that it not only brings out new
growth but brings it out even darker
than the natural growth OF the old halr.
ANY patient and sufficiently ambitious
individual can help their hair by mas
saying it night and morning and mas
saying it correctly. There IS general
and erroneous impression that to rub the
scalp is to massage 1t and so serious an
error is this that if a perfectly healthy.
heavily matched head is rubbed faithfully
and persistently all the hair viii drop out.
MILLICENT ARROWPOINT.