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Какие средства применяли в средневековые и прочие интересные времена для того, чтобы сделать волосы темнее? Басма, понятно. Что еще? Уголь, прах, шалфей?) Что обладает свойствами делать волосы темнее?
If the woman wishes to have long and black hair, take a green lizard and, having removed its head and tail , cook it in common oil. Anoint the head with this oil. It makes the hair long and black. ( Trotula )
A proven Saracen preparation. Take the rind of an extremely sweet pomegranate and grind it, and let it boil in vinegar or water, and strain it, and to this strained substance let there be added powder of oak apples and alum in a large quantity, so that it might be thick as a poultice. Wrap the hair with this , as though it were a kind of dough. Afterward, let bran be mixed with oil and let it be placed in any kind of vessel upon the fire until the bran is completely ignited. Let her sprinkle this on the head down to the roots. Then she should wet it thoroughly and again let her wrap her head (prepared this in the above-mentioned little sack) in the same above-mentioned strained liquid, and let her leave it throughout the night so that she might be the better anointed. Afterward, let her hair be washed and it will be completely black. ( Trotula )
For blackening the hair. First the hair is prepared in the above-mentioned manner so that it will be ready for coloring. Then let oak apples be placed with oil in a dish and let them be burned. Then let them be pulverized and placed in vinegar in which there has been placed blacking made in Gaul, and let them be mixed. ( Trotula )
Likewise for the same. Mix powder of galangal with juice of a walnut and make it boil and anoint [the hair]. ( Trotula )
30. To colour a black hair presently into a Chestnut- colour
This is done with oile of Vitriol; but you must do it very carefully not tounching the skin. (Plat)
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Что есть колонцит, понятия не имею...
Колонцит есть горькая тыква. Это, если верить гуглу, дикий арбуз, растущий в Африке
Но мне кажется, от действия черного чая при следующем же мытье не останется и следа...?