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Page 76
"After the hair is dyed, the refuse must be thoroughly washed from the
head with plain water; when dry, the hair must be oiled."
SIMPLE SILVER DYE. (_Otherwise "Vegetable Dye._")
Nitrate of silver, 1 oz.
Rose-water, 1 pint.
Before using this dye it is necessary to free the hair from grease by
washing it with soda or pearlash and water. The hair must be quite dry
prior to applying the dye, which is best laid on with an old
tooth-brush. This dye does not "strike" for several hours. It needs
scarcely be observed that its effects are more rapidly produced by
exposing the hair to sunshine and air.
HAIR DYE, WITH MORDANT. (_Brown._)
Nitrate of silver, 1 oz., blue bottles.
Rose-water, 9 oz. "
_The mordant_.--Sulphuret of potassium, 1 oz., white bottles.
" Water, 8 oz. "
HAIR DYE, WITH MORDANT. (_Black._)
Nitrate of silver, 1 oz., blue bottles.
Water, 6 oz. "
_The mordant_.--Sulphuret of potassium, 1 oz., white bottles.
" Water, 6 oz. "
The mordant is to be applied to the hair first; when dry, the silver
solution.
Great care must be taken that the sulphuret is fresh made, or at least,
well preserved in closed bottles, otherwise, instead of the mordant
acting to make to make the hair black, it will tend to impart a _yellow_
hue. When the mordant is good, it has a very disagreeable odor, and
although this is the quickest and best dye, its unpleasant smell has
given rise to the
INODOROUS DYE.
_Blue bottles._--Dissolve the nitrate of silver in the water as in the
above, then add liquid ammonia by degrees until the mixture becomes
cloudy from the precipitate of the oxide of silver, continue to add
ammonia in small portions until the fluid again becomes bright from the
oxide of silver being redissolved.
_White bottles_.--Pour half a pint of boiling rose-water upon three
ounces of powdered gall-nuts; when cold, strain and bottle. This forms
the mordant, and is used in the same way as the first-named dye, like
the sulphuret mordant. It is not so good a dye as the previous one.
FRENCH BROWN DYE.
_Blue Bottles_.--Saturated solution of sulphate of copper; to this add
ammonia enough to precipitate the oxide of copper and redissolve it (as
with the silver in the above), producing the azure liquid.
_White Bottles_.--_Mordant_.--Saturated solution of prussiate of
potass.
Artificial hair, for the manufacture of perukes, is dyed in the same
manner as wool.
There are in the market several other hair dyes, but all of them are but
modifications of the above, possessing no marked advantage.
LEAD DYE.
Liquid hair dye, not to blacken the skin, may be thus
prepared:--Dissolve in one ounce of liquor potass� as much
freshly-precipitated oxide of lead as it will take up, and dilute the
resulting clear solution with three ounces of distilled water. Care must
be taken not to wet the skin unnecessarily with it.
QUICK DEPILATORY OR RUSMA. (_For removing hair._)
As the ladies of this country consider the growth of hair upon the upper
lip, upon the arms, and on the back of the neck, to be detrimental to
beauty, those who are troubled with such physical indications of good
health and vital stamina have long had recourse to rusma or depilatory
for removing it.
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