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A Hair: Washing. Clean, healthy hair is the basis of any hair style. In addition to brushing, dry hair requires shampooing once a week, oily hair perhaps every day. Shampoos are soapy or synthetic detergents in liquid, gel, lotion, or cream form and may have special uses. There are nondrying shampoos for normal hair, egg shampoos to add sheen to dry hair, and lemon shampoos to cut dyed their long hair and square beards black crimped and curled them with curling irons. imes wigs were worn. Persian nobles also their hair and beards and stained them red henna.
austere republican Rome, men and women 1.y followed simple Greek styles, but under _ire the upper classes used curling irons the men dusted their hair with colored or gold dust. Women dyed their hair . with yellow soap or wore ebony wigs or made from the blond hair of captive bar-. Their hair was piled high in curls and , sometimes arranged on crescent-shaped rire frames. Throughout the ancient world hair-iessing and shaving were accomplished by domestic slaves or in public barbershops.
Gooseflesh is caused by the contraction of arrectores pilorum muscles. Each of these muscles consists of smooth muscle fibers extending from about the middle of each hair follicle upward into the dermis. Because a hair follicle does not lie perpendicular to the skin surface, but at an angle, the contraction of the muscle pushes the hair follicle and the surrounding skin upward, forming a tiny bump. It also forces the hair into a more upright position. See also HAIR.
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