In today's Claire Chats, Claire, who is having a rather bad hair day, talks about how medieval and Tudor people kept their hair clean and what they used to colour their hair.
Sources and Further Reading
- Markham, Gervase (edited by Michael R. Best), The English Housewife, McGill-Queen's University Press.
- Plat, Sir Hugh (1608) Delightes for ladies to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters, a scanned version is available from EEBO Editions on Amazon.
- Tudor Monastery Farm TV documentary, BBC.
- Goodman, Ruth (2015) How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life, Viking.
- https://uk.lush.com/article/history-hair-colouring
- http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/hair_color/honey-hair-lightening-fact-or-fiction/
- http://www.almanac.com/blog/natural-health-home-tips/lighten-your-hair-rhubarb
- http://www.ehow.com/how_10051470_dye-hair-turmeric.html
- http://pioneerthinking.com/crafts/natural-dyes
- http://www.hairwizz.com/how-to/hair-dyeing
- http://www.birgitmoffatt.com/testing-the-colour-from-barberry/
- http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/5643/1/NPR%207(1)%2040-44.pdf
- http://sulfatefreeshampoos.org/history-of-shampoo-using-right/
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