Shampoo is a hair solution as well as a hair care product that is used for removing hair pollutants such as skin particles, dirt, dandruff as well as oil from the human hair. All these pollutants build up overtime in hair and have to be removed regularly so as to maintain a well groomed hair as well as a personal hygiene. Removing of these pollutants should be done without stripping the scalp sebum which is a natural oil. The removal of these pollutants is a regular process that should be included in the everyday guide.
The shampoo invention is not complete without mentioning the history of shampoo. It can be traced back to India where ancient tribes used it. Shampoo is however an English word that was derived from chimpo which is a Hindi word. This word is traced back to the year 1762. This word refers to the action of using hair oil to massage the head. This process was later adopted by Britain through a Bengali entrepreneur known as Sake Dean Mohamed. This was the gentleman who introduced the massaging oil for the hair in a vapor bath when he was working n London. He later opened a steam vapor and medicated bath with his wife and here he offered champi treatments to his clients which were therapeutic massages.
This gentleman also became the "shampoo surgeon" of William IV and George IV. This gentleman never actually touched hair but instead massaged heads and referred to this as shampoo treatments. This however does not mean he is the person who invented shampoo because this is actually credited to Kasey Herbert. In the 1860's that this word evolved from just meaning a massage to the actual washing of the hair as well as the scalp using soap. Several English hair stylists honed shampooing where they shaved soap and added herbs that made it a concoction.
The herbs were used to give the hair fragrance and shine. One of the several individuals credited with the invention of shampoo is Kasey Herbert and is also attributed with its origin. At the turn of the 20th century, commercial shampoo was being marketed in ads as well as commercials. It was in 1924 that an ad in the American Magazine for Canthrox shampoo exhibited women washing their hair with the solution in a lake. Rexall then followed suit by releasing ads for their hair beautifier and shampoo. The original shampoo mixtures contained natural surfactants which is a type of detergent.
Today however, shampoos contain synthetic surfactants that were first introduced by Drene in the 1930's. The earliest form of shampoo in Indonesia however was made from the straw of rice stalks and husk. They were burned till hey were ash and they were later mixed with water. However they used to leave the hair very dry and this made them to be unpopular. The coconut oil was later introduced to act as a moisturizer. In India there were also several herbs and extracts that were being used as shampoo. For example the boiled soapnuts and the dried Indian gooseberry were drained into a shampoo because they were responsible for making the hair shiny, soft and also manageable.
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