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GRAY HAIR

Categories: Beauty

"The only thing to do with gray hair is to admire it." This is
true. Nothing so sets off an aged face like the crown of silver. To color

it is a great mistake. There is absolutely no cure for it; the one thing

we can do is to make it a beauty. Gray hair is due to the exhaustion of

the pigment or coloring cells of the hair, supposed to be occasioned by

the lack of a regular supply of blood.



For the progressive wh
tening of the hair due to the advance of age,

curative agents are rarely of any avail, especially if the trouble is

hereditary. Not that gray hair and baldness are handed down from father to

son, but that the peculiarities of constitution which produce them are

inherent in both. Nervousness, neuralgia, a low physical condition, aid

the falling and blanching of the hair, and the victim should build up the

general system. Preparations of iron and sulphur, taken internally, are

supposed to supply certain elements of growth and pigment-forming power to

the hair.



A solution of iron for external application to the hair, calls for two

drams each of citrate of iron and tincture of nux vomica, and one and

one-half ounces each of cocoanut oil and bay rum. It may be mentioned

here, that faithfulness in treatment means even more than the tonic

applied. To gain any real benefit, one must be persistent in application.



Hair often turns gray "in streaks" to the chagrin of the victim. Or it

whitens above the forehead and temples and remains dark at the back.

Nothing can be done for this.



Gray hair should be kept scrupulously clean, and requires more frequent

washing than hair that holds its color. A very little blueing in the

rinsing water gives a purer, clearer white. For this use indigo, not the

usual washing fluid which is made of Prussian blue. Five cents worth of

indigo will last a lifetime.



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