HAIR COSMETICS

Under this head are included all preparations which are used for beautifying, preserving, or restoring the hair. These are fully described in different parts of this work, and we shall here merely name the principal heads under which they will be found. The hard pomatums used for keeping the hair, moustache, and whiskers, in form, and sometimes to colour them at the same time, are noticed under Cosmetique ; the mucillaginous preparations for stiffening the hair, under Fixature ; the compounds for removing superfluous hairs, under Depilatory ; the applications for the cure and prevention of baldne , under Pomades and Washes ; and those employed to cleanse or beautify the hair under the last two heads, and under Hair Dyes and Oils .