4/1/2024 0 Comments Hair singe![]() ![]() Washing hair in soap makes it very dry, brittle, and tangly. Soaps are made from a lye base and are alkaline. The reason that hair was rarely washed has to do with the nature of soaps versus modern shampoos. ![]() “Wasn’t their hair lank, smelly, and nasty?”Īnd the writers who embrace ignorance as a badge of honor will say, “Well, that just goes to show that people used to be gross and dirty, and that’s why I never bother with that historical accuracy stuff!”Īnd then I have to restrain myself from hitting them… Those who had incredibly difficult to manage hair might employ a hairdresser to help them wash, cut, and singe (yes, singe!) their hair as often as once a month, but for most women, hair-washing was, at most, a seasonal activity. Historical women kept their hair clean, but that doesn’t mean their hair was often directly washed. ![]() How many times have you read a story in which a heroine sinks gratefully into a sudsy tub of water and scrubs her hair–or, even worse, piles it up on her head to wash it? Or have you watched the BBC’s Manor House and other “historical reenactment” series, in which modern people invariably destroy their hair by washing using historical recipes? Hair washing is something that almost every historical writer, romance or not, gets wrong. ![]()
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