Beauty Secrets of European Women
Flour Power
- ½ cup of white spelt flour
- ½ cup of barley flour
- 1 cup of distilled sater
- 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
- Shower cap
Sift the flours together in a large bowl. Pour in the water and vinegar, and mix well.
Spoon the mixture into your dry hair, and smooth the paste all over the hair, avoidignthe scalp. (This treatment is for the hair. It’s not harmful for the scalp, but the focus is getting the paste on the individual strands of hair.)Sweep the coated hair up on top of your head, and put on the shower cap. Leave on for twenty to thirty minutes.
Remove the cap and rinse the mixture off hair thoroughly, using cool water. (Hot water will make the flour stick to the hair shafts – a gluey mess!)
Shampoo as usual, rinsing with cool water.
Venetian Gold—The Perfect Hair Color
In Venice, the women once were obsessed with dyeing their hair blond with different concoctions (sometimes using the oddest ingredients, like alum and oriental crocus), choosing the hottest moment of the day to sit outside, and letting the sun bleach away the color. They still knew the importance of keeping skin safe from the sun’s harmful rays. These lovelies wore a wide-brimmed hat called a solana to protect their faces from the sun while bleaching their hair.
