Interesting Shampoo Facts You May Not Know About
We use this tool every day, but we know almost nothing. Correcting the situation.
It seems as if this tool that instantly makes our hair perfectly clean and shiny has always existed. However, our grandmothers found a time when they washed their heads with soap, however, they also washed the whole body with this bar and even brushed their teeth. Now we don’t even know when the first shampoo appeared and what it looked like. We decided to plunge into history and learned a lot of facts about the most popular beauty product.
The very first shampoo dates back to the 1500s and was invented in India. Sapindus, aka soap nut, was cooked with dried Indian gooseberries and other herbs. The extract created a lather and left hair soft and shiny.
Few people know that the word shampoo comes from champo, which means massage in Hindi. After experiencing the Indian practice of massage, Bengali entrepreneur Sake Din Magomed opened a bathhouse in an English area in 1815, where he offered massage with therapeutic steam to imitate the very Indian massage. And only 80 years later, the term “shampoo” began to refer only to scalp massage.
What we call shampoo today was soap in 1880. In Europe, there was a universal product called Slidall’s Soap, which was used not only for general hygiene, but also for washing children, dogs and horses.
At the beginning of the 1908th century, the Englishman Casey Herbert decided to create a shampoo by combining soap and herbs. The result was a powder that replaced the bar of soap. After this invention, in XNUMX, newspapers and magazines began to publish articles on how to properly wash your hair.
German inventor Hans Schwarzkopf invented water-soluble shampoo powder in 1927, adding almond oil, panthenol, and violet to soaps and herbs for scent. A few years later, he Hans released a liquid shampoo in which there was no alkali.
In 1986, the Pantene brand first released a two-in-one shampoo, which not only cleansed the skin and hair of impurities, but also looked after.
How they wash their hair in space
Astronauts wash their hair with a special product that does not require the use of water. They apply and rub in this shampoo with a towel. The non-foaming shampoo was originally created for hospital patients who cannot shower.
In 2011, Japanese scientists created a special robot that scans the human head and determines with what intensity it is necessary to massage the scalp, and only then starts work. He washes his hair with eight fingers. The invention was invented to facilitate work in the field of health care.
Those who think that dry shampoo was invented about 10 years ago are deeply mistaken. It turns out that it was created at the end of the 1918th century in Asia, and it contained clay powder. However, the general public only learned about them in 1940, when the American Journal of Pharmacy described its concept. The commercial dry shampoo Minipoo was released in XNUMX.
In the 1940-1970s, the demand for dry shampoo was driven by the fact that housewives needed an emergency and quick way to cleanse their hair.