yes...but the acid in it also tende to weaken hair shaft nd so moisturising and strignthening with something like an egg and oil poltice....( mayonaise) was needed to keep a lot of the hair from becomming unatrctively like straw...not just straw colored.... I believe Florentine women, especially the courtesannes, were famous for their long flowing golden locks ,along with their pale skins. this was accomplished by roof top( the roofs were falt with stairways leading to them so they could be sued for cool evenng desert parties but also for mid day sunbathing) sunbaths , fully chemised in veiled sun hat with whole in the crown where the hair was pulled through to the the maximu sun. the white veiling mad a sort of make shif tent to protcet the complection .there are all sorts of pictures and woodcuts to this effect. also salt and lemon juice were used as a saitn remover and scrub for spot treting linen and it does work on wool if you dont mind creating just a different sort of spot , now lighter instead. the spot was treated with a paste of the 2 and then set in the sun..I have tried in on redwine stains on fine linen(demonstrating at DullyHistoric site in Dulles VA) and found it to be effective though time consuming, changing out the salt and rewetting it to put it back in the sun repeatedly until the stain faded. Also went home and tried in aon a wool crpet after a interesting prty.....same result but took out some of the dies as well.
Bambi (To be named ater) TBNL I am made for great things by GOD and walk with Pride!!!! Walladah bint al Mustakfi c 1100ad see me dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HMtOoXtMs0 --- On Sun, 1/4/09, albert...@aol.com <albert...@aol.com> wrote: From: albert...@aol.com <albert...@aol.com> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Yellowed silk To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 9:13 PM In a message dated 1/4/2009 6:07:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, c...@juno.com writes: I could be hallucinating, but I recall reading somewhere that vinegar or lemon juice were sometimes used to lighten hair. ************** Both acids. And I believe they will also curl it. In ancient Greece I believe fashionable ladies used horse urine....pouring it over their hair laid out on special boards out in the sun. That sounds just lovely! **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
