I was thinking about her head bent down like that 😂 but then again I have a condition due to which I can't be with my head head bent down like that for more than 15-30sec. or there's a risk of a severe headache.
Ashes + fat = soap. The lye, made from ash, was diluted, so was safe to use. It helped break down accumulated sebum, pomades and dressings, and any gunk that got on hair in daily life. This is basically how soaps and shampoos work today. This is also similar to how laundry was done, without beating and boiling water 😄
From Sri Lanka. People in our olden times used to use deeply dug soil, filtered with cloth. Such soil is said to be full of minerals for the nourishment of the hair... More or less like modern day clay mask
Very cool video. Awesome that you presented it in character/period accuracy. I would have loved to see a picture or shot of her lovely hair after it's airdryed though. Especially if you had a before and after.
"Washing your hair was not a daily task by the way." Nor should it be nowadays, unless you have excessively oily hair. Daily washing of hair actually strips your hair of the natural oils that keep your hair and scalp moisturized. You actually should be washing your hair about 2-4 times a week at the most depending on how oily your hair gets between washes. The longer it takes for your hair to get too oily between washes, the less often you need to wash your hair.
MizzKittyBichon For african americans we wash our hair one a week or so. Our hair doesn't produce as much sebum as other ethnicities do so washing our hair more than once a week can cause it to get very dry.
Yes! We should definitely take other races and ethnic groups into consideration as well. Now that I think about it, it does seems like most beauty and hair tips are geared towards white women. (And I'm a mostly white woman myself.)
Honestly my hair is so dry it never gets oily. :p I have straight/wavy blonde hair, medium thickness. It tangled easily. I did the “no shampoo” challenge for almost a year, and “washed” my hair once a week with warm water (I.e. I would massage my scalp under the warm water). I’d do the scalp massage if I went to the gym that day also. I also made sure to brush my hair a lot throughout the day, especially the scalp, so any sebum made its way down my hair shaft. It’s the nicest my hair has ever been and it didn’t smell bad. But tbh, when I switched to the no shampoo challenge, I was only washing my hair with shampoo maybe twice a week, otherwise my scalp would be extremely dry. No Idea why western culture feels the need to wash their hair daily.
"No Idea why western culture feels the need to wash their hair daily." Commercialism. That's why. The more times people wash their hair, the more often people will go buy more hair products. Cha-CHING!
MizzKittyBichon i have a very fine hair type so that actually if I wash my hair in the morning by the next morning my hair is greasy and flat and stringy. Not a good look believe me... looks like I crawled out of some medieval shrubbery as a heathen or something for real
Thanks to for the interesting video and good representation! The wearing of hats, caps, coifs, hoods and veils and braided hairstyles the late medieval period would have helped keep hair free of dirt and keep any strong bodily odours private. It would have reduced the need for frequent washing too. In the West, probably since the marketing of detergent based shampoos, the general fashion is for squeaky clean, loose hair, and this fashion was not the norm in the late middle ages, except for the very young. That's my theory, anyway. A plaited medieval hairstyle is not only easier to style on slightly oily hair than clean hair but looks better too. Medieval people of means had access to beautiful smelling natural cosmetics, made from herbs, flowers and spices. These smelled wonderful, and these would have made a lovely perfume to hide any unpleasant odours, much as we use them today.
urchin - actually perfumes were very expensive in the Middle Ages, only the wealthy could afford them. The best the poor people could do is wear fragrant flowers or herbs.
I have super fine hair, so styling anything into it- especially if it's freshly washed- without an industrial-sized can of product is an utter disaster! (And, combine the fact that I also keep my bangs short, which gets them greasier faster, I can only get away with shampooing every other day, max every 3 if it's winter and I'm staying in) That said, I'm also a historical re-enactor. While my hair's not long enough yet to do authentic styles (I need to use extensions hidden under veils and such, my braids barely reach my shoulders), I did find an interesting recipe for what was effectively a hair gel in the 14th century. Flaxseed gel with some floral scenting made for a strong hair gel like you would use today, that both smelled very pleasant and made damn near INDESTRUCTIBLE braids! The conclusion was that "women either almost never washed their hair so they'd have lots of control over it for these braids, OR, they coated themselves liberally in this hair gel". 18th century hairstyling also used what was effectively a self-cleaning cycle of pomade and powder. The pomade (made from animal tallow and scented with, again, flowers and herbs and such) was combed in and provided volume, moisturized the hair and made it easy to style up. Powder (made generally from ultra-fine wheat and corn starches and tinted into a desired colour with a variety of ingredients) then absorbed the excess grease from the pomade and scalp oils and made the fashionable pale-haired look- and then the next day, a dose of powder would be worked through to absorb and comb off excess pomade and the pomade-powder cycle would start again.
So... When your lovely medieval mistress arrives to the local Tavern with a little frizz don't question it. If she says she _didn't_ have time she didn't have time.
Omg do people in the comments forget that everyone doesn't have the same hair texture and type? People have different routines for their hair, some wash their hair every morning and some wash their hair once a week. Just because it is different from your hair routine doesn't mean it's "disgusting" or "dirty" just different is all.
@@MzAnzu using less aggressive sebum removal helps even if you have a super oily scalp. There are those that only use (-cone free) conditioner, because it cleans their hair enough without being too harsh. Others use herbal tea rinses with astringent ingredients, because the plant oils and the tannins help your hair clean enough without being too harsh, and leave it smelling wonderful
I am a black woman..we can't wash our hair everyday..it would become dry, brittle and fall out. In fact we must add oils to our scalp and hair to condition it. I have dread locs...so I know from experience
I used to wash my hair every other day because it got greasy so quickly, but now I wash my hair once a week. Even after 4+ days it’s nowhere near as greasy as it used to be when I washed it every other day. Definitely recommend trying to get into the habit of washing your hair less even though it will be greasy at first.
yes same for me and sometimes twice a week but unfortunately while combing there are a lot of fallen hair since it is done once a week only. and the nightmare is humidity ruin the curls after just one day!
spirals 73 From what I read humidity was their issue. I have very curly hair and can not go 2 days without washing my hair. However, with the use of a high volume mousse. I like to use OGX Locking + Coconut Curls Decadent Creamy Mousse which is one of my favorites. We are not living in the mideveil times so I think everyone should act appropriately. We have modern products for a reason.
I have always washed my hair like that. I would not wash it standing becouse I don’t want products from the hair, such as shampoo, conditioners, masks and sometimes oils to get on my body. Also, I find it easier to wrap my hair in a towel afterwards, and it is not all over my back and shoulders.
@@cynthiathomas5443 ugh that happened to me for a week because I had ear surgery so i couldn't take a shower like i always do and my mom had to help me wash my hair so everytime she washed my hair i ended up with pain on my neck
.... I'm always washing my hair bend over the bathtub because I don't like washing my hair whilst showering... Also my mum washed my hair like that for many years lmao
My hair is relatively thick, moderately wavy, and falls to my upper hips. I wash my scalp every seven to ten days, using soap (not shampoo) and coconut oil as a conditioner on the ends. During the summer I don't go outside without a white cloth covering my scalp plus a straw hat. If my scalp gets sweaty, I rinse with water or a weak solution of apple cider vinegar and water followed by plain water. tl;dr: My hair is gorgeous because I don't abuse it with modern products.
@@jite4943 I've got two that I really like. One is Everyone Soap, the Coconut & Lemon scent. www.eoproducts.com/products/coconut-lemon-3-in-1-soap It smells like a coconut/lemon meringue pie. The other is Dr. Bronner's Almond soap. I use the bar version, but admittedly the liquid is easier to use. shop.drbronner.com/almond-pure-castile-bar-soap-5-oz
I wash my hair every other day, sometimes less if it isn't greasy. Also, using a boar bristle hairbrush will help your natural scalp oil be brushed down the rest of your hair. I air dry my hair too. Air drying doesn't mean you don't squeeze it with a towel first, just don't rub.
No need to scrub the scalp hard or long if that’s the case! And yes, if she were using lye then she should definitely be speedy as it is a very harsh soap! I hope your carpal tunnel is good, try limiting how long you wash your hair for
I used to wash, blow dry and flat iron my hair daily. I bleached my roots once a month. Now, I never bleach or color it and I never wash it more than 1-2 times a week. It’s very long (past my rear end) and is stronger than ever.
Kelly Marie I used to dye my hair and constantly use heat too. Now I wash it twice a week (every 3-4 days) and use oil treatments. My hair is down to my lower back and healthy as ever. Mainstream hair washing is so damaging but it's deemed "dirty" to not wash your hair often. Last time I checked, nobody is eating off my head and I'm not using it to clean my dishes lol..the facination with "clean" hair is weird.
Love this video. I was my hair with three egg whites , and around 8 oz of cold water mixed together. My hair is down my back . I only wash once a week. I have naturally wavy hair , and thick texture. My hair has never been has healthy. One time I went back to normal shampoo for a week , the day after my hair went greasy and limp. All those chemicals. Not for me. Water alone , is a cleanser, . But I love my egg whites. I looked on RUclips. It will show you the method.
Eggs and water contain a buttload of chemicals. A chemical isn't a toxin, water is literally a chemical and we can't live without it. Have a look at what a pure natural strawberry contains: jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-strawberry/ And this is natural eggs: jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-egg/ Your problem isn't chemicals, but the harshness of the cleaning agents as well as that your hair loses protein easily (same with my hair). You could literally use 100% natural cleansers like gall soap or pine tree liquid oil soap and it would destroy your hair not because they aren't natural, but because they are too strong and harsh. Don't forget that cyanide, asbestos, strychnine, ricin, and many more are 100% natural, yet deadly. Vitamins are chemicals. Chemicals are not good, they are not bad. They are what life is made out of.
They didn't think of using the chair. Let her sit on the chair. Face upwards, water in the bucket. My daughter had long hair when she was little. She wouldn't wash it in the shower. So, I did salon style hair washing for her. Her crying stopped afterwards.
The water where I live is so hard, that I decided to wash my hair with a gallon of distilled water over a bowl. My hair is so soft! Now I’ve been researching how people washed their hair in the past, back when they only had basins, so that I can make my hair washing with distilled water an easier process lol.
In response to the clearly distressed person who says I am blaming the victims of oily skin and oily scalps. Nothing could be further from the truth I have suffered from both in the past. They plagued me in my teens and I had acne flare-ups right into my 30s. Firstly, why people have oily scalps varies. A general problem with over production of sebum is not why most people create excessive oils in the scalp. Most people simply just over wash. I do sympathise with those who have an oily skin condition generally because I did. However, despite my troubles with spots and blackheads in my youth cutting back on the frequency of hair washing and changing shampoos from time to time or using lavender ones worked for me and my hair was nolonger slick and lank. My comments were meant to be helpful not hurtful.
Very interesting. However, I question the “burnt wine stems”. Wine is a liquid. Vine stems might be more believable - except that lye is best made from clear-burning hardwoods. There’d have been plenty of ash available from these, from the fires kept burning for cooking, heat, and light.
Well with the dead skin cells that naturally slough off and mix with the sebum, I'd say the stuff that makes hair look and feel like it's been dipped in a chip pan is grease, not oil.
southernlight6 FALSE. Oil and grease are both lipids, as are all plastics. Oils usually come from plants and are liquid at room temperature while greases are usually animal derived and solid at room temperature but there are exceptions to the rule. There are only two ways to " add thickener" to a lipid, one is to add hydrogen as in partially hydrogenated ( margarine, shortening etc.) or add Lye causing saponification, as in making soap. The lye solution would saponify the copious sebum on the hair and scalp making a weak but effective soapy rinse that would pull the oils from the hair.
When I was a lot I use to wash my hair every day and if I went clubbing I would wash it again at that time I never felt clean if I didn't do it Now I wash my hair twice a week .
How did they take care of naturally curly hair? In the movies natural curly head are pictured so beautifully but never has anyone shown how curly hair was washed, dried and brushed (hopefully not dry brushed)
@spirals 73...i don't think they mean to say that it is bad but when I brush out my curls they tend to lose their shape! So maybe they are asking how they maintained to curl with having to brush their hair everyday and not wash it as often!
spirals 73 true but it also depends on how thick/thin your hair is, how tight/loose your curls are and how damaged/healthy your hair is. And what you brush it with.
TheGryffinclaw Jedi humidity might help, because yes it does frizz your hair (when it's dry and damaged so it wants to "drink" the air) but with virgin hair, I think it acted like a "leave-in" conditioner of some sorts
I don't know why people are disagreeing with the comment that the less often you wash your hair the less greasy it is, the examples they give actually prove rather than disprove this. Honestly, saying leaving your hair for two days means it's greasier if you don't do it every day is proof you wash it so often your scalp is producing a lot of sebum. To get it to drop to lower levels of sebum production you have to tolerate it being greasy in the interim period in which you don't wash it as often and after a few weeks it will actually start to produce lower levels of sebum. Conditions like dandruff and dry sensitive scalps can be exacerbated by over washing. So it's wise to avoid it and better for your wallet and the environment. A friend of mine dropped from washing their hair twice a day to washing it twice weekly. Her dandruff went away. If you don't work in a dirty, dusty environment or a smoky one your hair won't get dirty quickly and sebum and brushing also get rid of dirt.
Honestly, I stopped taking shower daily because I got lazy, but I've been a okay since. I didn't really pay attention to my body and hair before so I can't compare but I don't think anyone will be suffering from taking a shower once or twice a week.
I wash my hair once a week with a conditioning shampoo and use leave-in conditioner and my scalp has never itched in my life, it's always well conditioned. If anyone's scalp itches after 2 days, you probably have dandruff or some form of dermatitis.
Because it's just not true. That's right up there with saying that if you cut your hair often it'll grow faster or if you shave a lot your hair with grow back thicker. If it were true, then frequent washing would be a solution for very dry scalp. It wouldn't change as hormones shifted. Do you realize that people with oily hair also have oily face, backs, etc? It's a myth that stinks of blaming the victim. Some people really do just produce more oil than others. I've never heard of a person with a real problem 'cure' themselves by dropping the frequency of their hair washing. I've battled with oil since I hit puberty. When I hit menopause, that shifted dramatically to dry skin/scalp. It changed because my hormonal profile changed. When my doctor gave me hormone supplements... shocker. My oily complexion came back and I had to go back to daily washing. People with this issue do get frustrated when others lecture us with a 'here's your simple cure,' when they have no idea what they're talking about. Just like people with acne get irritated when an idiot confidently tells them that they're eating too much chocolate or a skinny person who's really fighting to put on weight is told that they just need to eat a sandwich.
why come in most of these history video's, they have a servant helping them? if this is how the rich was living , It must have been hell on earth for the peasants.
I only wash my hair 3-4 Times a month in the summer, maybe 2-3 for the rest of the year. The exception to my rule is if I do heavy exercise and my head gets sweaty. I only wash my hair with baby shampoo too because I have a sensitive scalp, then I use coconut oil and tea tree oil as a leave in conditioner. My hair is healthy and nearly bum length now.
Sebum on hair looks bad, though. There’s nothing pretty about oily, stringy hair. It’s not shiny, either, the oil doesn’t reflect light when it’s absorbed by the hair.
sources speak of once a week or once every two weeks. works very well even for some of my friends today. I have hair to my but and it dries in an hour if left to air dry.
I wash my hair every three or four days. And I never use dry shampoo in between. When it's time for me to wash my hair, I applied aloe vera as hair mask a day before.
I wish my hair would dry in an hour! It takes 4 full hours to blow dry, much longer to air dry. If I braid it or put it in a ponytail or bun, forget it. It will stay wet in the middle for days if I let it. It isn't near the length of yours but the thickness is insane. I wash once every week or two because wash day really is an all day affair in my house!
it's a personal thing as to how often you wash your hair. I shower each day so it's easier for me to wash mine when I shower. I have a short blond bob so I like to keep it shiny and clean. If I don't wash it each day, I don't feel clean, that is just personal to me.
Agreed. My scalp is very oily, and if I skip even one day washing my hair, it's gross. My mom was the same, and she never washed her hair often as a kid and as an adult she washed it every other day... it was always greasy.
The local well or aquaeduct or spring or cisterne. Nobody would bother to bring harder or softer water in for washing, although they might have used different sources for crafts like plantdyeing. But adjustments can be made with the right soap and right treatments (sour rinses f.e.).
That one jug of lye water to soak her hair would've dampened a third of mine, maybe. They would've had to bring the washtub in for me, they must have for thick haired people. Pitty the maid who had to keep filling jugs instead of thriftily using a bucket.
Francesca Taphophilia You'll find that if you aren't using shampoos and conditioners that build up on the hair, the only parts that really need the lye water are the scalp and the hair immediately near the scalp. For the rest of the hair, dilute the water that drips through/off your hair with enough water to soak the rest of your hair. Then rinse out. Or don't even bother soaking the rest of your hair, just make sure it gets rinsed in the rinse. Some of the water from the scalp area will be rinsed through it.
Спасибо! Для первого мытья используется щелочь, приготовленная на обожженных винных стеблях(? не ясно, если честно). Мытье головы не было ежедневной задачей. Обычно вы только тщательно расчесываете волосы, удаляя пыль и грязь и распространяя по ним кожное сало. Оно не будет производиться так интенсивно, если мытье сведено к минимуму. Чем меньше вы моете волосы, тем меньше они будут жирниться. Затем - промывание горячей водой, хотя большей частью это сильно повредит волосы и кожу головы. А для тех, кто любит сближаться с другими, Тротула называет ряд ароматов, которые можно нанести на волосы. Сушка - одним из синих полосатых полотенец, так популярных в позднем средневековье. Но на самом деле Тротула говорит о сушке на воздухе. Кондиционер из масла и цедры лимона. В оригинальном рецепте вместо масла используется жир ящерицы, но подойдет любой жир или масло.
I don't even have curly hair, it's just that my skin, hair, even eyes, lips and mouth are always bone dry. I'm far from dehydrated btw I drink more than a gallon of water. My hair isn't even greasy or sweaty by 1 entire week, I wash it so that I can get some conditioner and serum into those dead looking strands lmao
Not soap (that was usually used only for heavy stains as a spot-treatment), but just lye from ash and water in which you would cook the clothing, then beat it with a wash-paddle and then only rinse it in the river.
@@ig14tesjahrhundert79Thank you for the response. I meant did they use it to wash themselves? We are told that they never bathed but I do not believe that.
@@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 and you shouldn't :-) That people never bathed is a myth that has been spread in historism at the beginning of the 20th century. Yes, in the 17th -19th century, that was the case for most big cities, that had mostly to do with a wrong understanding of medicine and the spread of several diseases like the plague, tuberculosis, cholera etc. that caused a lot of insecurity and fear in people. But in medieval times, people were in fact very aware of their daily hygiene. They would wash themselves daily with a washbowl and washcloth and some lye or soap and then went to the bathhouses for a proper bath 1-2 times a week, more if it was a person of status that had their own bathtubs at home. Also washing and changing clothing regularly was a common practice and we know from moral writers of the time that body odor and dirty clothing was frowned upon by society. One tool that probably every household had, was a hygiene set including a spoon for earwax, a scraper for cleaning fingernails and tweezers for removing facial hair. Shaving was also common for most men and some women of higher status even shaved or epilated their body hair. For people of higher status, more measures could be taken like dyeing hair, applying body creams and rose water, musk or other scents and makeup. We have more videos on the topic of medieval hygiene in our playlist.
I’ve never been inclined to wash my hair everyday as I have a sensitive scalp, but even so, I produce so much sebum and it really, *really* irks me. I prolly wash my hair every 2 to 4 days.
I always imagined hair felt really dry or greasy back then since they didn't have the things we use like shampoo and conditioner and they didn't wash their hair often. When I was younger I used to think that they just poured a bucket of water on their heads and called it good lol.
Talking to a friend about hair... Him: "You know, lately I feel like my hair has the same feel as straw..." Me: "How often do you wash it?" Him: "Everyday." Me: "Are you crazy?! You can't wash your hair everyday!!!" So apparently some people don't know this xD I almost always wash it like in the video, since it's long it doesn't tangle as much when it's simply hanging straight down :)
I wash my hair every day. Some people (like me) have to... others with less oil in the scalp only need to wash it as little as once a week. And before you tell me that my scalp will eventually adjust if I stop washing it so often, nope, it doesn't. And my hair is soft and healthy.
I'd like to know what the model would have thought after a few months rarely washing her hair and spreading the sebum with a comb, instead of our modern every-other-day washing.
Mine was actually a legitimate question. I wish these girls would relate their experience. (I found the "original" Under der Linden; I like your version better.)
I wouldn’t have made it in those days. No WiFi, I gotta have my music on wash day. no good hair conditioners, bending all the way over a bucket just to wash my hair, and no dryer or flatirons. Lord how did they do it?!
I hear it's not good to wash your hair daily, unless your scalp sweats a lot, or you have a dirty job, or hobby etc. I wash mine every three days unless I get sweatier than usual. Though I do still rinse it at least.
I only wash my hair once a week, and no my hair is not less greasy. I washed my hair 2 days ago and it's already greasy. It's one of those things they say like if you pluck a hair it won't grow back thicker. It will, it's always not what they say.
Washing your hair everyday can actually do more harm than good! Washing it everyday can strip your hair of its natural oils and make it very dry and more susceptible to falling out.
This was not supposed to be awkward at that time since everyone was used to it .I can't withstand without washing my hair every other day but i use natural n herbal shampoo made my self
lye is made by mixing water and an alkaline substance. the most simple way for these people was to mix water and ash and then strain the mixture. if you mix lye with grease, it becomes soap. so lye and grease of the skin or hair works together like soap.
Lizard grease?? Was that actually from lizards or some wierd name for something else? (Like "hog lice" were actually rolly pollys, those little insects that roll up into balls, nothing to do with either lice or hogs)
lizard grease is what it says in the original recipe. i doubt though that this was what they really used (or maybe the apothecary just sold people buttergrease in a pot labled "lizard grease").
I noticed that with time, the longer I withhold washing my hair the less greasy it gets in the future. I use to wash every three days, due to my hair getting so oily that it weight it down. Now-a-days I only need to wash it once a week or maximum once every 9 days. I trained my scalp to produce less serum by withholding the wash longer. My hair seems to grow better this way too. I also added a filter to remove the chlorine and other chemicals in the water that exists out of the shower head. The first time I noticed less oil was when I stopped washing my hair for two weeks. At first it was overproducing serum, naturally, but after day 15 it seems as if the scalp stopped producing serum or reduced the amount. After that wash my hair didn't need another wash till after 7 days. It was such a nice feeling not needing to wash so often. I do use conditioner at the ends, but very little of it. I saved so much money this way. I don't need to use so much hair oil or leave-in-conditioner as before. My hair growth became more noticeable. By the way, washing your hair bend over forward like that is a great way to washing hair. It stimulates the follicles, causing it to grow better. I use to have really back receding hairline till I started to wash my hair bend forward. It does take time, but it works. Bending over forward under a shower head really wakes up the roots that are there. I don't know if it works on actual full blown bald spots, but I had seen the difference over the years that I have more hair now than I did as a teen and it is due to washing my hair differently and with cold water.
Who the hell washes her hair every single day ? I wash it twice a week and that is perfectly sufficient. It’s not healthy for your hair to wash it every day.
I have fine oily hair. While I don't wash my hair every single day, I do wash it every day I'm going to be in public, and if that's 5 days in a row so be it. If I don't wash my hair, it looks dirty by American standard. It's like shaving: it's a visual standard we have set as a society, it's not necessarily needed, but it's expected. I could go a week or more been washing, it's not dirty as I don't often go places where my hair could get dirty, but the oils build up quickly on my head and, as I said, appear dirty..
I’m a guy...and I’m construction worker...I adore history and antiques “why I’m here” however !! Since my childhood hero was Steven Seagal I’ve been growing my hair long in a ponytail 😭 but last night I noticed my hair is breaking BADLY where I put the fabric coated rubber band. Until this comment section I thought shampoo every day was GOOD!, It’s bad!?! 😫 would using shampoo less give me stronger hair ?!?
@@andrewgarratt5191 that depends on what kind of shampoo you're using and what kind of hair you have, and what your after products are. Try using a sulfate free shampoo, sulfates are harsh detergents and make your hair dry. You might wanna follow up with a silicone free conditoner on the length (not the roots!) As well. I think reddits haircare science board would be helpful to you. Also, don't use the tiny hair scrunchies that are tight. Use big soft loose ones and go around a few times. What kind of hair do you have?
It would've been easier to fill a medium sized bowl to wash then use another bowl to rinse. Lastly use a wide tooth comb to coat the hair with the grease conditioner
So, I have a question of what should I do with my hair lol. I'm a boy so I have short hair, and it's curly, but I live in the equator basically and it's very hot and humid here (we normally take at least 2 showers per day, and I do that too. Sometimes 3). But my hair is really dry and coarse, what is the best hair care for this situation?
Walter Drinker that’ll only make it worse by washing off the oil and making your small make more to compensate and oily skin doesn’t directly correlate to oily hair
Well, yes, at least on their weekends. We are Living Historians. That means we spend our free time in open air museums showing the visitors how people lived back then in as much detail as possible.
@@ig14tesjahrhundert79 that's really neat. I can't imagine how different & difficult it must be to cut out all ties to modern life & live the way things were back in the medieval times. So if I may ask, what is lye & how does it work to keep hair clean? & what does the wine stems do to help?
Not difficult at all actually, but very relaxing. It is like a holiday, leaving your phone and computer and all the stress behind and just be in the present. lye is a basic liquid. you could make a base from simply water and soap, people back then just added ashes to water. if you added oil to the water and ashes, you could make soap actually. it could really be any ashes from any kind of wood, we think that the wine stems are some kind of supersticious thing.
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That's true. Back when I lived in medieval times, we couldn't get enough lye and blue striped towels.
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My back hurts just from watching her hunched over like that😜😵😂
C K ha!!!...
mines too...😂😂😂
C K I wash my hair like that, I blood to the head is good for it you get used to it really quickly.
I was thinking about her head bent down like that 😂 but then again I have a condition due to which I can't be with my head head bent down like that for more than 15-30sec. or there's a risk of a severe headache.
Madara Aradam THAT sucks😵.. Sorry
Sam Eyer Hey if your back can handle it..more power to ya:)
Ashes + fat = soap.
The lye, made from ash, was diluted, so was safe to use. It helped break down accumulated sebum, pomades and dressings, and any gunk that got on hair in daily life.
This is basically how soaps and shampoos work today.
This is also similar to how laundry was done, without beating and boiling water 😄
waterfalls - correct. Lye was the basis used as soap, for hair, body and clothing.
Goat fat like in Norway
“lizard grease” ... yeah it’s gonna be a no from me.
saffron fields yep
yet you probably eat animals and use animal products in things you didn't even think of
From Sri Lanka. People in our olden times used to use deeply dug soil, filtered with cloth. Such soil is said to be full of minerals for the nourishment of the hair... More or less like modern day clay mask
I'm from Sri Lanka. I bath always. you know how dusty it's in here. I do lot of work. and bath relax me a lot
Very cool video. Awesome that you presented it in character/period accuracy. I would have loved to see a picture or shot of her lovely hair after it's airdryed though. Especially if you had a before and after.
"Washing your hair was not a daily task by the way."
Nor should it be nowadays, unless you have excessively oily hair. Daily washing of hair actually strips your hair of the natural oils that keep your hair and scalp moisturized. You actually should be washing your hair about 2-4 times a week at the most depending on how oily your hair gets between washes. The longer it takes for your hair to get too oily between washes, the less often you need to wash your hair.
MizzKittyBichon For african americans we wash our hair one a week or so. Our hair doesn't produce as much sebum as other ethnicities do so washing our hair more than once a week can cause it to get very dry.
Yes! We should definitely take other races and ethnic groups into consideration as well. Now that I think about it, it does seems like most beauty and hair tips are geared towards white women. (And I'm a mostly white woman myself.)
Honestly my hair is so dry it never gets oily. :p I have straight/wavy blonde hair, medium thickness. It tangled easily. I did the “no shampoo” challenge for almost a year, and “washed” my hair once a week with warm water (I.e. I would massage my scalp under the warm water). I’d do the scalp massage if I went to the gym that day also. I also made sure to brush my hair a lot throughout the day, especially the scalp, so any sebum made its way down my hair shaft. It’s the nicest my hair has ever been and it didn’t smell bad. But tbh, when I switched to the no shampoo challenge, I was only washing my hair with shampoo maybe twice a week, otherwise my scalp would be extremely dry. No Idea why western culture feels the need to wash their hair daily.
"No Idea why western culture feels the need to wash their hair daily."
Commercialism. That's why. The more times people wash their hair, the more often people will go buy more hair products. Cha-CHING!
MizzKittyBichon i have a very fine hair type so that actually if I wash my hair in the morning by the next morning my hair is greasy and flat and stringy. Not a good look believe me... looks like I crawled out of some medieval shrubbery as a heathen or something for real
Thanks to for the interesting video and good representation! The wearing of hats, caps, coifs, hoods and veils and braided hairstyles the late medieval period would have helped keep hair free of dirt and keep any strong bodily odours private. It would have reduced the need for frequent washing too. In the West, probably since the marketing of detergent based shampoos, the general fashion is for squeaky clean, loose hair, and this fashion was not the norm in the late middle ages, except for the very young. That's my theory, anyway. A plaited medieval hairstyle is not only easier to style on slightly oily hair than clean hair but looks better too. Medieval people of means had access to beautiful smelling natural cosmetics, made from herbs, flowers and spices. These smelled wonderful, and these would have made a lovely perfume to hide any unpleasant odours, much as we use them today.
urchin - actually perfumes were very expensive in the Middle Ages, only the wealthy could afford them. The best the poor people could do is wear fragrant flowers or herbs.
I have super fine hair, so styling anything into it- especially if it's freshly washed- without an industrial-sized can of product is an utter disaster! (And, combine the fact that I also keep my bangs short, which gets them greasier faster, I can only get away with shampooing every other day, max every 3 if it's winter and I'm staying in)
That said, I'm also a historical re-enactor. While my hair's not long enough yet to do authentic styles (I need to use extensions hidden under veils and such, my braids barely reach my shoulders), I did find an interesting recipe for what was effectively a hair gel in the 14th century. Flaxseed gel with some floral scenting made for a strong hair gel like you would use today, that both smelled very pleasant and made damn near INDESTRUCTIBLE braids! The conclusion was that "women either almost never washed their hair so they'd have lots of control over it for these braids, OR, they coated themselves liberally in this hair gel".
18th century hairstyling also used what was effectively a self-cleaning cycle of pomade and powder. The pomade (made from animal tallow and scented with, again, flowers and herbs and such) was combed in and provided volume, moisturized the hair and made it easy to style up. Powder (made generally from ultra-fine wheat and corn starches and tinted into a desired colour with a variety of ingredients) then absorbed the excess grease from the pomade and scalp oils and made the fashionable pale-haired look- and then the next day, a dose of powder would be worked through to absorb and comb off excess pomade and the pomade-powder cycle would start again.
So... When your lovely medieval mistress arrives to the local Tavern with a little frizz don't question it. If she says she _didn't_ have time she didn't have time.
How many greasy lizards were there in the Middle Ages?
clare5 one 😂😂😂😂
you would probably need a lot of them, they are skinny little beasts :-D
Very, very funny response!! 😆
clare5 one LOL Poor little greasy lizards...or big....they were probably bigger then.
LoL
Omg do people in the comments forget that everyone doesn't have the same hair texture and type? People have different routines for their hair, some wash their hair every morning and some wash their hair once a week. Just because it is different from your hair routine doesn't mean it's "disgusting" or "dirty" just different is all.
or you have 2 strands of hair and very oily scalp.... it's the worst:S they are just useless...
@@MzAnzu using less aggressive sebum removal helps even if you have a super oily scalp. There are those that only use (-cone free) conditioner, because it cleans their hair enough without being too harsh. Others use herbal tea rinses with astringent ingredients, because the plant oils and the tannins help your hair clean enough without being too harsh, and leave it smelling wonderful
I am a black woman..we can't wash our hair everyday..it would become dry, brittle and fall out.
In fact we must add oils to our scalp and hair to condition it.
I have dread locs...so I know from experience
@@crystalholder2213 in most parts of India, we also need to use hair oil on a regular basis.
teanani coco bitch they used LIZARD GREASE
Yay! Great video. I've been curious about how people in the medieval ages washed their hair and what they used.
Interesting thing to be curious about.
I'm curious on how the everyday life for one would be like...
I used to wash my hair every other day because it got greasy so quickly, but now I wash my hair once a week. Even after 4+ days it’s nowhere near as greasy as it used to be when I washed it every other day. Definitely recommend trying to get into the habit of washing your hair less even though it will be greasy at first.
Perks of having curly hair is that I only have to wash it once a week
Sydney Tonkin explain
yes same for me and sometimes twice a week but unfortunately while combing there are a lot of fallen hair since it is done once a week only. and the nightmare is humidity ruin the curls after just one day!
Sydney Tonkin yall disgusting
Madonna Youssef Try washing your hair more often and using hair styling products.
spirals 73 From what I read humidity was their issue. I have very curly hair and can not go 2 days without washing my hair. However, with the use of a high volume mousse. I like to use OGX Locking + Coconut Curls Decadent Creamy Mousse which is one of my favorites. We are not living in the mideveil times so I think everyone should act appropriately. We have modern products for a reason.
Lye is what's used to make soap, and one benefit of covering ones hair is that it keeps it cleaner for a longer time
Woe to the woman who had a bad back, lol. Staying bent over like that for so long would be torture.
Vicky especially with a head full of wet hair. Ouch.
i would've been rough and squatted over the bucket. lol
I have always washed my hair like that. I would not wash it standing becouse I don’t want products from the hair, such as shampoo, conditioners, masks and sometimes oils to get on my body. Also, I find it easier to wrap my hair in a towel afterwards, and it is not all over my back and shoulders.
Back ache standing in that position for a long time. So pleased we have showers today.
@@cynthiathomas5443 ugh that happened to me for a week because I had ear surgery so i couldn't take a shower like i always do and my mom had to help me wash my hair so everytime she washed my hair i ended up with pain on my neck
.... I'm always washing my hair bend over the bathtub because I don't like washing my hair whilst showering... Also my mum washed my hair like that for many years lmao
My hair is relatively thick, moderately wavy, and falls to my upper hips. I wash my scalp every seven to ten days, using soap (not shampoo) and coconut oil as a conditioner on the ends. During the summer I don't go outside without a white cloth covering my scalp plus a straw hat. If my scalp gets sweaty, I rinse with water or a weak solution of apple cider vinegar and water followed by plain water.
tl;dr: My hair is gorgeous because I don't abuse it with modern products.
Hey, what kind of soap do you use? :) I have curly hair and I am trying to give up on the store brought stuff due to too much chemicals.
@@jite4943 I've got two that I really like. One is Everyone Soap, the Coconut & Lemon scent. www.eoproducts.com/products/coconut-lemon-3-in-1-soap It smells like a coconut/lemon meringue pie. The other is Dr. Bronner's Almond soap. I use the bar version, but admittedly the liquid is easier to use. shop.drbronner.com/almond-pure-castile-bar-soap-5-oz
@@CrowMeris thank you so much! :}
this was obviously an upper class family to be able to afford a lemon for lemon zest.
Look at the glass window. Of course.
@Griffith Williams What if they lived in a mediterrian area? LOL
The fact that they were using lemon zest means they were a well-off family
I wash my hair every other day, sometimes less if it isn't greasy. Also, using a boar bristle hairbrush will help your natural scalp oil be brushed down the rest of your hair. I air dry my hair too. Air drying doesn't mean you don't squeeze it with a towel first, just don't rub.
bamboo combs and brushes do that also, brining down those oils to the rest of the hair strand.
It took her less than 3 minutes to wash her hair. If I could accomplish that, maybe I wouldn't have carpal tunnel.😞
If you use lye on your hair, it wouldn't take you very long.
And my hair is to my waist and it only take me about 5 minutes.
No need to scrub the scalp hard or long if that’s the case! And yes, if she were using lye then she should definitely be speedy as it is a very harsh soap! I hope your carpal tunnel is good, try limiting how long you wash your hair for
half of the world still washes their hair like this
Awesome video,Keep it up!
Curious to see how it looked dry.
Wilderness Voice me2
I like using lemon oil in my hair..my hair is well past my bum and I can see how this is a good method of long hair washing...
this medieval music sounds good
Great video very interesting.
Really enjoyed that! It would have been nice to see what the hair looked like once it was dried :)
I just found this channel and im so glad! Love it!
I used to wash, blow dry and flat iron my hair daily. I bleached my roots once a month.
Now, I never bleach or color it and I never wash it more than 1-2 times a week. It’s very long (past my rear end) and is stronger than ever.
Kelly Marie I used to dye my hair and constantly use heat too. Now I wash it twice a week (every 3-4 days) and use oil treatments. My hair is down to my lower back and healthy as ever. Mainstream hair washing is so damaging but it's deemed "dirty" to not wash your hair often. Last time I checked, nobody is eating off my head and I'm not using it to clean my dishes lol..the facination with "clean" hair is weird.
Hannah No lol⛤⛤⛤⛤⛤ five stars
Love this video. I was my hair with three egg whites , and around 8 oz of cold water mixed together. My hair is down my back . I only wash once a week. I have naturally wavy hair , and thick texture. My hair has never been has healthy. One time I went back to normal shampoo for a week , the day after my hair went greasy and limp. All those chemicals. Not for me. Water alone , is a cleanser, . But I love my egg whites. I looked on RUclips. It will show you the method.
Eggs and water contain a buttload of chemicals. A chemical isn't a toxin, water is literally a chemical and we can't live without it. Have a look at what a pure natural strawberry contains: jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-strawberry/
And this is natural eggs: jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-egg/
Your problem isn't chemicals, but the harshness of the cleaning agents as well as that your hair loses protein easily (same with my hair). You could literally use 100% natural cleansers like gall soap or pine tree liquid oil soap and it would destroy your hair not because they aren't natural, but because they are too strong and harsh. Don't forget that cyanide, asbestos, strychnine, ricin, and many more are 100% natural, yet deadly. Vitamins are chemicals. Chemicals are not good, they are not bad. They are what life is made out of.
They didn't think of using the chair. Let her sit on the chair. Face upwards, water in the bucket. My daughter had long hair when she was little. She wouldn't wash it in the shower. So, I did salon style hair washing for her. Her crying stopped afterwards.
The water where I live is so hard, that I decided to wash my hair with a gallon of distilled water over a bowl. My hair is so soft! Now I’ve been researching how people washed their hair in the past, back when they only had basins, so that I can make my hair washing with distilled water an easier process lol.
Are you still doing this and how are the results?
In response to the clearly distressed person who says I am blaming the victims of oily skin and oily scalps. Nothing could be further from the truth I have suffered from both in the past. They plagued me in my teens and I had acne flare-ups right into my 30s. Firstly, why people have oily scalps varies. A general problem with over production of sebum is not why most people create excessive oils in the scalp. Most people simply just over wash. I do sympathise with those who have an oily skin condition generally because I did. However, despite my troubles with spots and blackheads in my youth cutting back on the frequency of hair washing and changing shampoos from time to time or using lavender ones worked for me and my hair was nolonger slick and lank. My comments were meant to be helpful not hurtful.
Very interesting. However, I question the “burnt wine stems”. Wine is a liquid. Vine stems might be more believable - except that lye is best made from clear-burning hardwoods. There’d have been plenty of ash available from these, from the fires kept burning for cooking, heat, and light.
vine is right, but that is what the original recipe says.
Amazing video
Here in the Philippines, we used tabo (dipper) and a bucket full of water
I like Medieval music.
Is nicer to know how was them for daily routine, but if I compare with the knowledge that we get in the present times I really thanks God for it
Thanks for showing this kind of video, this is real life I'll be nice for stock up people to see it!!!!! Just saying no hard feelings😆
What the hell is lizard grease?
well, every animal has some fat reserves that you can extract, so has the lizard.
IG 14tes Jahrhundert
Eww 😷 sounds disgusting
@Susan B 🤢 I cannot think of anything worse than selling like a rancid lizard right after I've just washed my hair lol
😱😱😱
They probably didn't like the taste of lizard fat so they used It for hair. Other more tasty animal fats were used for meal.
Sebum is natural oil, not grease.
disiskrazy d well, what do you think grease is?
Grease is oil with thickener in it. There is a difference in oil and grease. Grease can become rancid quickly as well.
Well with the dead skin cells that naturally slough off and mix with the sebum, I'd say the stuff that makes hair look and feel like it's been dipped in a chip pan is grease, not oil.
Grease is oil lmao...?
What a genius
southernlight6 FALSE. Oil and grease are both lipids, as are all plastics. Oils usually come from plants and are liquid at room temperature while greases are usually animal derived and solid at room temperature but there are exceptions to the rule. There are only two ways to " add thickener" to a lipid, one is to add hydrogen as in partially hydrogenated ( margarine, shortening etc.) or add Lye causing saponification, as in making soap. The lye solution would saponify the copious sebum on the hair and scalp making a weak but effective soapy rinse that would pull the oils from the hair.
So when your date said she had to stay home and wash her hair...she really meant it.
When I was a lot I use to wash my hair every day and if I went clubbing I would wash it again at that time I never felt clean if I didn't do it
Now I wash my hair twice a week .
louise lill go natural! since i am biracial, my hair is very thick, nappy, & curly...i was my hair,
went I'm ready 😉😀
How did they take care of naturally curly hair? In the movies natural curly head are pictured so beautifully but never has anyone shown how curly hair was washed, dried and brushed (hopefully not dry brushed)
@spirals 73...i don't think they mean to say that it is bad but when I brush out my curls they tend to lose their shape! So maybe they are asking how they maintained to curl with having to brush their hair everyday and not wash it as often!
spirals 73 true but it also depends on how thick/thin your hair is, how tight/loose your curls are and how damaged/healthy your hair is. And what you brush it with.
TheGryffinclaw Jedi humidity might help, because yes it does frizz your hair (when it's dry and damaged so it wants to "drink" the air) but with virgin hair, I think it acted like a "leave-in" conditioner of some sorts
Well, when you are a curly person and you don't shampoo your hair, your curls will be amazing, even if you brush it eventually.
These heaux were really just walking around, whipping their lizard covered hair left and right.
So glad we have modern shampoo and conditioner
I don't know why people are disagreeing with the comment that the less often you wash your hair the less greasy it is, the examples they give actually prove rather than disprove this. Honestly, saying leaving your hair for two days means it's greasier if you don't do it every day is proof you wash it so often your scalp is producing a lot of sebum. To get it to drop to lower levels of sebum production you have to tolerate it being greasy in the interim period in which you don't wash it as often and after a few weeks it will actually start to produce lower levels of sebum. Conditions like dandruff and dry sensitive scalps can be exacerbated by over washing. So it's wise to avoid it and better for your wallet and the environment. A friend of mine dropped from washing their hair twice a day to washing it twice weekly. Her dandruff went away. If you don't work in a dirty, dusty environment or a smoky one your hair won't get dirty quickly and sebum and brushing also get rid of dirt.
the scalp is gonna be very itchy if you don't wash your hair at least every other day... imho
Ada Kadabra If your scalp gets itchy there’s probably something wrong with your skin. That’s not normal.
Honestly, I stopped taking shower daily because I got lazy, but I've been a okay since. I didn't really pay attention to my body and hair before so I can't compare but I don't think anyone will be suffering from taking a shower once or twice a week.
I wash my hair once a week with a conditioning shampoo and use leave-in conditioner and my scalp has never itched in my life, it's always well conditioned. If anyone's scalp itches after 2 days, you probably have dandruff or some form of dermatitis.
Because it's just not true. That's right up there with saying that if you cut your hair often it'll grow faster or if you shave a lot your hair with grow back thicker.
If it were true, then frequent washing would be a solution for very dry scalp. It wouldn't change as hormones shifted. Do you realize that people with oily hair also have oily face, backs, etc?
It's a myth that stinks of blaming the victim. Some people really do just produce more oil than others. I've never heard of a person with a real problem 'cure' themselves by dropping the frequency of their hair washing.
I've battled with oil since I hit puberty. When I hit menopause, that shifted dramatically to dry skin/scalp. It changed because my hormonal profile changed. When my doctor gave me hormone supplements... shocker. My oily complexion came back and I had to go back to daily washing.
People with this issue do get frustrated when others lecture us with a 'here's your simple cure,' when they have no idea what they're talking about. Just like people with acne get irritated when an idiot confidently tells them that they're eating too much chocolate or a skinny person who's really fighting to put on weight is told that they just need to eat a sandwich.
I'm never know wht i say for your video that wants shoo much hard work and peations keep it's up
Where did they find such good footage of the medieval times??
Secret time travel technology!
why come in most of these history video's, they have a servant helping them? if this is how the rich was living , It must have been hell on earth for the peasants.
it could just be her sister?
The fact that 21st century ppl forget that in the past ppl lived in families. 😔
hunching over to wash her hair probably got it way more tangled
I only wash my hair 3-4 Times a month in the summer, maybe 2-3 for the rest of the year. The exception to my rule is if I do heavy exercise and my head gets sweaty. I only wash my hair with baby shampoo too because I have a sensitive scalp, then I use coconut oil and tea tree oil as a leave in conditioner. My hair is healthy and nearly bum length now.
Sebum on hair looks bad, though. There’s nothing pretty about oily, stringy hair. It’s not shiny, either, the oil doesn’t reflect light when it’s absorbed by the hair.
deutschesmaedchen different customs for different times, i guess 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ they may not have noticed or even cared back then
adrianna carole I’m sure the sour smell of too much hair sebum can’t go unnoticed. They probably used tons of perfumed oils to mask it.
Lmao I mean they had to work with what they had
Natural hair brushes, usually 100% boar or badger would distribute the oils from the scalp to the end of the hair, so it helps quite a bit
deutsches - personal scent was just part of every day life back then. EVERYone had a smell, so someone's hair smelling would just be taken in stride.
how often would people wash their hair ?
Not often... and I'm guessing only in summer, because really long hair would never dry otherwise.
sources speak of once a week or once every two weeks. works very well even for some of my friends today. I have hair to my but and it dries in an hour if left to air dry.
I wash my hair every three or four days. And I never use dry shampoo in between. When it's time for me to wash my hair, I applied aloe vera as hair mask a day before.
I wish my hair would dry in an hour! It takes 4 full hours to blow dry, much longer to air dry. If I braid it or put it in a ponytail or bun, forget it. It will stay wet in the middle for days if I let it.
It isn't near the length of yours but the thickness is insane. I wash once every week or two because wash day really is an all day affair in my house!
precisely one tomato Let’s just say that in medieval times They thought that a clean body would make You sick...
What is a wine stem? This looks like the no-poo method, something that leaves hair nice for week or longer at a time with our standards of clean.
how do you even get lizard grease?
bruh it's 3 am
how tf did I get from gluing down lace fronts to THIS
it's a personal thing as to how often you wash your hair. I shower each day so it's easier for me to wash mine when I shower. I have a short blond bob so I like to keep it shiny and clean. If I don't wash it each day, I don't feel clean, that is just personal to me.
Agreed. My scalp is very oily, and if I skip even one day washing my hair, it's gross. My mom was the same, and she never washed her hair often as a kid and as an adult she washed it every other day... it was always greasy.
What was their water source I’m really interested in as hard water can cause the hair to go waxy or
The local well or aquaeduct or spring or cisterne. Nobody would bother to bring harder or softer water in for washing, although they might have used different sources for crafts like plantdyeing. But adjustments can be made with the right soap and right treatments (sour rinses f.e.).
That one jug of lye water to soak her hair would've dampened a third of mine, maybe. They would've had to bring the washtub in for me, they must have for thick haired people. Pitty the maid who had to keep filling jugs instead of thriftily using a bucket.
Francesca Taphophilia You'll find that if you aren't using shampoos and conditioners that build up on the hair, the only parts that really need the lye water are the scalp and the hair immediately near the scalp. For the rest of the hair, dilute the water that drips through/off your hair with enough water to soak the rest of your hair. Then rinse out. Or don't even bother soaking the rest of your hair, just make sure it gets rinsed in the rinse. Some of the water from the scalp area will be rinsed through it.
Dewey - General oh I get it, I just have a massive amount of hair, the ewer and basin wouldn't be enough for half my head. Lol.
Спасибо!
Для первого мытья используется щелочь, приготовленная на обожженных винных стеблях(? не ясно, если честно). Мытье головы не было ежедневной задачей. Обычно вы только тщательно расчесываете волосы, удаляя пыль и грязь и распространяя по ним кожное сало. Оно не будет производиться так интенсивно, если мытье сведено к минимуму. Чем меньше вы моете волосы, тем меньше они будут жирниться.
Затем - промывание горячей водой, хотя большей частью это сильно повредит волосы и кожу головы. А для тех, кто любит сближаться с другими, Тротула называет ряд ароматов, которые можно нанести на волосы. Сушка - одним из синих полосатых полотенец, так популярных в позднем средневековье. Но на самом деле Тротула говорит о сушке на воздухе. Кондиционер из масла и цедры лимона. В оригинальном рецепте вместо масла используется жир ящерицы, но подойдет любой жир или масло.
This times when im in this point of being bored that i truly have to ask myself "wtf im doing..."
Me as a grandmother: "Gather around kids! Let me tell you a story on how I use to wash my hair when I was a little girl..."
Finally! I get to see how they washed their hair
Though with reenactments I've seen on here, the hair is VERY greasy
I don't even have curly hair, it's just that my skin, hair, even eyes, lips and mouth are always bone dry. I'm far from dehydrated btw I drink more than a gallon of water. My hair isn't even greasy or sweaty by 1 entire week, I wash it so that I can get some conditioner and serum into those dead looking strands lmao
Also did they use lye soap to wash in nearby rivers?
Not soap (that was usually used only for heavy stains as a spot-treatment), but just lye from ash and water in which you would cook the clothing, then beat it with a wash-paddle and then only rinse it in the river.
@@ig14tesjahrhundert79Thank you for the response. I meant did they use it to wash themselves? We are told that they never bathed but I do not believe that.
@@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 and you shouldn't :-) That people never bathed is a myth that has been spread in historism at the beginning of the 20th century. Yes, in the 17th -19th century, that was the case for most big cities, that had mostly to do with a wrong understanding of medicine and the spread of several diseases like the plague, tuberculosis, cholera etc. that caused a lot of insecurity and fear in people.
But in medieval times, people were in fact very aware of their daily hygiene. They would wash themselves daily with a washbowl and washcloth and some lye or soap and then went to the bathhouses for a proper bath 1-2 times a week, more if it was a person of status that had their own bathtubs at home. Also washing and changing clothing regularly was a common practice and we know from moral writers of the time that body odor and dirty clothing was frowned upon by society.
One tool that probably every household had, was a hygiene set including a spoon for earwax, a scraper for cleaning fingernails and tweezers for removing facial hair. Shaving was also common for most men and some women of higher status even shaved or epilated their body hair.
For people of higher status, more measures could be taken like dyeing hair, applying body creams and rose water, musk or other scents and makeup.
We have more videos on the topic of medieval hygiene in our playlist.
@@ig14tesjahrhundert79 Thank you. It was very informative.
I’ve never been inclined to wash my hair everyday as I have a sensitive scalp, but even so, I produce so much sebum and it really, *really* irks me. I prolly wash my hair every 2 to 4 days.
I always imagined hair felt really dry or greasy back then since they didn't have the things we use like shampoo and conditioner and they didn't wash their hair often. When I was younger I used to think that they just poured a bucket of water on their heads and called it good lol.
Washing your hair with only water is actually best for it. Ideally 1-3 times a week, only warm water, thoroughly massaging the scalp.
The best thing you can do to your hair is stop shampooing, believe me.
Talking to a friend about hair...
Him: "You know, lately I feel like my hair has the same feel as straw..."
Me: "How often do you wash it?"
Him: "Everyday."
Me: "Are you crazy?! You can't wash your hair everyday!!!"
So apparently some people don't know this xD
I almost always wash it like in the video, since it's long it doesn't tangle as much when it's simply hanging straight down :)
I wash my hair every day. Some people (like me) have to... others with less oil in the scalp only need to wash it as little as once a week. And before you tell me that my scalp will eventually adjust if I stop washing it so often, nope, it doesn't. And my hair is soft and healthy.
I'd like to know what the model would have thought after a few months rarely washing her hair and spreading the sebum with a comb, instead of our modern every-other-day washing.
there is plenty of no-poo method or co-wash method or low-poo method or curly-girl method girls out there that can give you their experiences :-)
Mine was actually a legitimate question. I wish these girls would relate their experience. (I found the "original" Under der Linden; I like your version better.)
No lizard was harmed in the making of this video.
best comment so far on this video :-D
My mom used to wash my hair like this
does anyone know if they would wash hair in the morning, evening or just during the day? Can’t find info on it
I wouldn’t have made it in those days. No WiFi, I gotta have my music on wash day. no good hair conditioners, bending all the way over a bucket just to wash my hair, and no dryer or flatirons. Lord how did they do it?!
I hear it's not good to wash your hair daily, unless your scalp sweats a lot, or you have a dirty job, or hobby etc. I wash mine every three days unless I get sweatier than usual. Though I do still rinse it at least.
I only wash my hair once a week, and no my hair is not less greasy. I washed my hair 2 days ago and it's already greasy. It's one of those things they say like if you pluck a hair it won't grow back thicker. It will, it's always not what they say.
Washing your hair everyday can actually do more harm than good! Washing it everyday can strip your hair of its natural oils and make it very dry and more susceptible to falling out.
Everyone knows this. I wash my hair everyday and it works for me. Nothing wrong with that 👌
This was not supposed to be awkward at that time since everyone was used to it .I can't withstand without washing my hair every other day but i use natural n herbal shampoo made my self
What does ''lye from water'' mean? Sorry, my english isn't all that good
lye is made by mixing water and an alkaline substance. the most simple way for these people was to mix water and ash and then strain the mixture. if you mix lye with grease, it becomes soap. so lye and grease of the skin or hair works together like soap.
Lizard grease?? Was that actually from lizards or some wierd name for something else? (Like "hog lice" were actually rolly pollys, those little insects that roll up into balls, nothing to do with either lice or hogs)
lizard grease is what it says in the original recipe. i doubt though that this was what they really used (or maybe the apothecary just sold people buttergrease in a pot labled "lizard grease").
Where do I buy lizard grease? eBay ?
Your very serious and very trustworthy apothecary can sell you loads of tallo...uuuh i mean lizard grease of course ;-)
Wonderful video! Is it good to use lemon zest on the hair or would it make the hair dry or bleach it?
no, there is no acid in the zest, just the natural oils of the lemon that smell nice.
Lemon lightens your hair
I noticed that with time, the longer I withhold washing my hair the less greasy it gets in the future. I use to wash every three days, due to my hair getting so oily that it weight it down. Now-a-days I only need to wash it once a week or maximum once every 9 days. I trained my scalp to produce less serum by withholding the wash longer. My hair seems to grow better this way too. I also added a filter to remove the chlorine and other chemicals in the water that exists out of the shower head. The first time I noticed less oil was when I stopped washing my hair for two weeks. At first it was overproducing serum, naturally, but after day 15 it seems as if the scalp stopped producing serum or reduced the amount. After that wash my hair didn't need another wash till after 7 days. It was such a nice feeling not needing to wash so often. I do use conditioner at the ends, but very little of it. I saved so much money this way. I don't need to use so much hair oil or leave-in-conditioner as before. My hair growth became more noticeable.
By the way, washing your hair bend over forward like that is a great way to washing hair. It stimulates the follicles, causing it to grow better. I use to have really back receding hairline till I started to wash my hair bend forward. It does take time, but it works. Bending over forward under a shower head really wakes up the roots that are there. I don't know if it works on actual full blown bald spots, but I had seen the difference over the years that I have more hair now than I did as a teen and it is due to washing my hair differently and with cold water.
what are wine stems?
Wow. What sort of lizard would have been available?
what is a "burnt wine stem"?
the plant on which grapes grow, you take the wooden stems and burn them to ashes.
Who the hell washes her hair every single day ? I wash it twice a week and that is perfectly sufficient. It’s not healthy for your hair to wash it every day.
SC when I’m in season (I play soccer) I wash my hair everyday because I will not go to bed with a greasy, sweaty scalp. My hair is still very healthy.
I have fine oily hair. While I don't wash my hair every single day, I do wash it every day I'm going to be in public, and if that's 5 days in a row so be it. If I don't wash my hair, it looks dirty by American standard.
It's like shaving: it's a visual standard we have set as a society, it's not necessarily needed, but it's expected. I could go a week or more been washing, it's not dirty as I don't often go places where my hair could get dirty, but the oils build up quickly on my head and, as I said, appear dirty..
SC I do. I work in a 100f degree factory making cars all day, the shit that gets in my hair is unreal.
I’m a guy...and I’m construction worker...I adore history and antiques “why I’m here” however !! Since my childhood hero was Steven Seagal
I’ve been growing my hair long in a ponytail 😭 but last night I noticed my hair is breaking BADLY where I put the fabric coated rubber band.
Until this comment section I thought shampoo every day was GOOD!,
It’s bad!?! 😫 would using shampoo less give me stronger hair ?!?
@@andrewgarratt5191 that depends on what kind of shampoo you're using and what kind of hair you have, and what your after products are. Try using a sulfate free shampoo, sulfates are harsh detergents and make your hair dry. You might wanna follow up with a silicone free conditoner on the length (not the roots!) As well. I think reddits haircare science board would be helpful to you. Also, don't use the tiny hair scrunchies that are tight. Use big soft loose ones and go around a few times. What kind of hair do you have?
My hair gets oily in just two days. So every two days I wash up.
Yes, the point of the no-poo method is to break that cycle by taking certain measures.
It would've been easier to fill a medium sized bowl to wash then use another bowl to rinse. Lastly use a wide tooth comb to coat the hair with the grease conditioner
well, this is how it is depicted in the original paintings.
So, I have a question of what should I do with my hair lol. I'm a boy so I have short hair, and it's curly, but I live in the equator basically and it's very hot and humid here (we normally take at least 2 showers per day, and I do that too. Sometimes 3). But my hair is really dry and coarse, what is the best hair care for this situation?
google the curly girl method. this should work for guys as well :-)
So interesting
I have oily skin =( I need to wash my hair everyday
Walter Drinker ugh lucky my hair is so dry
Walter Drinker that’ll only make it worse by washing off the oil and making your small make more to compensate and oily skin doesn’t directly correlate to oily hair
Anton Fuchs They’re not lucky it’s just a different problem
Dakotas Moon yeah true but I love washing my hair and wish I could do it every day but than my hair would be so dry and tangled
Anton Fuchs washing my hair is kind of boring but I have oily hair so I do it about three days a week
So do these people actually choose to live like this as to show what it was like?
Well, yes, at least on their weekends. We are Living Historians. That means we spend our free time in open air museums showing the visitors how people lived back then in as much detail as possible.
@@ig14tesjahrhundert79 that's really neat. I can't imagine how different & difficult it must be to cut out all ties to modern life & live the way things were back in the medieval times. So if I may ask, what is lye & how does it work to keep hair clean? & what does the wine stems do to help?
Not difficult at all actually, but very relaxing. It is like a holiday, leaving your phone and computer and all the stress behind and just be in the present.
lye is a basic liquid. you could make a base from simply water and soap, people back then just added ashes to water. if you added oil to the water and ashes, you could make soap actually. it could really be any ashes from any kind of wood, we think that the wine stems are some kind of supersticious thing.
What are wine stems? Do you mean cork?
no, i mean the wood of a wine plant.
IG 14tes Jahrhundert vine?
yes
How often did they bathe?
1-2 times a week in a public bathhouse, every day with a washcloth and washbowl.
Take me to a running river and I'll be good to go. I'm not bending over a bowl while some pours water on my head
In January?
What is a wine stem???
When you say wine stems did you mean grape must or grape stems? Because otherwise it doesn't make much sense. Thanks in advance
sorry, I meant the plant on which grapes grow.