Everyday Ways To Care For Your Hair

Health, strength and beauty of hair depends primarily on its nerve
vigor and the good circulation of the oily scalp secretion which gives
it gloss and luster. Beauty is not so much a matter of color where
hair is concerned. If your hair has a fine glow, a rich sheen, is
thick and long, it will be beautiful irrespective of its pigmentation.
Hair often makes an otherwise plain person beautiful. And practically
every woman, if she cares to make the effort, may have beautiful hair.

SOME HAIR HINTS

If you have the least suspicion of a curl in your hair, brushing
around rather than straight will bring it out. Do not worry if you
shed your hair. It is natural for the hair to shed -- and to keep right
on growing in again. Only see to it that the ingrowth is equal to the
loss by shedding.

No young girl should use a rat. Metal combs should be tabooed. Keep
the hairbrush you use for dandruff stiff, the "polishing" brush may be
softer. Use a hair net that matches your own hair color, and do not
get too small a one. Remove snarls and tangles in the hair gently,
with fingers, before brushing. The three-weekly or monthly shampoo is
a good rule. If you wash your hair too often, it will turn dry and
brittle and change color.

The hair should never be worn "done up" constantly. This is injurious
because every part of the hair should have frequent air and sun baths.
For normal shampoo employ Castile, tar or vegetable soaps, and Green
soap for oily hair. A good egg shampoo may be made of an egg,
thoroughly beaten, one tablespoon alcohol, four ounces bay rum, a
pinch of borax, and four

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