Regency Beauty: Hair Growth

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into the basin of water you intend washing in To increase the Growth of Hair Hartshorn beat small and mixed with oil being rubbed upon the head of persons who have lost their hair will cause it to grow again as at first To promote the Growth of Hair Mix equal parts of olive oil and spirits of rosemary and add a few drops of oil of nutmeg If the hair be rubbed every night with a little of this liniment and the proportion be very gradually augmented it will answer every purpose of increasing the growth of hair much more ef fectually than can be attained by any of the boasting empirical prepa tations which are imposed on the credulous purchaser

Copley, E. (1810). The Cook’s Complete Guide on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance: Including the Art of Carving, and the Most Approved Method of Setting-out a Table … Instructions for Preserving Health and Attaining Old Age … Rules for Cultivating a Garden and Numerous Useful Miscellaneous Receipts. United Kingdom: George Virtue.

Rosemary is still believed to be helpful for hair growth, so seems like their might be something to it!

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