The Tudor Revolution

  Hello Beautiful Humans! Over the last year several of you have asked questions about historical hair care and bringing more of these practices into the 21st century for your own routines. In this video I go over some of the pros and cons for different hair care practices from the middle ages and today. Please do keep in mind that these observations are based on my personal experiences which might be different for other people with different hair types. A few questions I go over include: "What is the difference between medieval and modern hair care?" "How do you prevent your hair from matting/ getting tangled?" "Which products should I use for historical hairstyles?" "What is your favorite historical hairstyle?" I hope you enjoy this update on historical hair care that I was able to recover from the vault when my laptop data came back. Do you have a historical hair care question or tip? Please shar in the comments! You may also be interest...

  Welcome back to my follow up project about keeping your hair clean in the middle ages. My research for this project was based in trying to dig deeper into medieval hair care. I was pointed to a book called The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine , translated by Monica H Green through a Society for Creative Anachronism web conference and set off to reading. This is a popular medieval treatise on for women's health, and includes a range of medical advice from cosmetics to assistance with child birth. Obviously I can't promise that all of this information dating back the the 11th or 12th century is still thought to be sound, but it is fascinating. While reading through the section on women's cosmetics I found some hair care recipes and had to pause. Were they asking me to put powder in my hair to make it smell good? This sounded suspiciously like a home made dry shampoo I had used on and off at camping events and during the pand...