Urine as Hair Dye
I was thinking that the Punks hair isn’t actually going to be a natural red but that it would go that colour if bleached – a sort of strawberry blonde as it were – so then I thought how is she going to work dying her hair in the middle of Tudor England – its not like she can slip to the nearest supermarket is it?
Then I thought urine as in wee! Used to be used to bleach leather and stuff right? So surely she can use that! But that I wondered if this was right – I know urine contains urea which breaks down into Ammonia – and this is what is in bleaches.
Then I found out that the Tudors used this technique on hides and for dying wool and for making the stiff ruffs they had round their necks!
So watered down maybe mixed with a fat to make a cream I would have thought it might just work!
via twitter I got forwarded some nice links about the subject though no one has mentioned hair – but I think I remember it being mentioned off hand in one of the Clan of the Cave Bear books that the main character used it as a headlice shampoo or something!
If anyone knows more about this then please leave a comment!
The links are:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/5345.php
http://www.wisegeek.com/is-it-true-that-people-can-use-urine-for-bleaching.htm
Posted: Friday, December 18th, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
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