Excellent Hair Wash

Take one ounce of borax, half an ounce of camphor ; powder these ingredients fine, and dissolve them in one quart of boiling water;
when cool, the solution will be ready for use: damp the hair frequently. This wash effectually cleanses, beautifies, and strengthens the hair, preserves
the colour, and prevents early baldness. The camphor will form into lumps after being dissolved, but the water will be sufficiently impregnated. 

To wash Brushes

Dissolve a tablespoon of soda in a quart of water. Comb all the hair from the brushes, and dip them, bristles downward, into the water, and out again,
keeping the backs and handles as free from the water as possible. Repeat this till the bristles look clean, then rinse in cold water, shake them well, wipe the handles, and put them in the sun or near thefire to dry.

~MRS. SHAW'S RECEIPT BOOK HOUSEKEEPER'S ASSISTANT.


To CLEAN HAIR BRUSHES
As hot water and soap very soon soften the hairs, and rubbing completes their destruction, use soda, dissolved in cold water, instead ; soda having an affinity for grease, it cleans the brush with lit-
tle friction. Do not set them near the fire, nor in the sun, to dry, but after shaking them well, set them on the point of the handle in a shady place.
~Inquire Within 1859