Bald Heads
From 600 ways to get rich when your pockets are empty. Being an immense collection of the most saleable and money making disc (1882).
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From 600 ways to get rich when your pockets are empty. Being an immense collection of the most saleable and money making disc (1882), printed page 61, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/600waystogetrich00youn
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Ingredients
- four ounces of wild indigo
- a pint of alcohol
- a pint of hot water
- three ounces of castor oil
Method
- A most valuable remedy for promoting the gi’owth of the hair, is an application once or twice a day, of wild indigo and alcohol.
- Take four ounces of wild indigo, and steep it about a week or ten days in a pint of alcohol, and a pint of hot water, when it will be ready for use.
- The head must be thoroughly v/ashed with the liquid, morning and evening, application being made a sponge or soft brush Another excellent preparation is composed of three ounces of castor oil, with just enough alcohol to cut the oil, to which add twenty drops tincture of cantharides, and perfume to suit.
- This not only softens and imparts a gloss to the hair, but also invigorates and strengthens 'the roots of the hair.