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I feel that as long as humans have been civilized appearance has always been important. I would love to know if this is the first case of hair treatment or if cases of this can be dated even further back
The Egyptians knew a lot about various chemicals actually. A lot of it was probably because of their ritual embalming but some was medicinal too it seems. For instance, they gave opium to babies in order to calm them.
Another interesting fact; the Egyption word Kmt, or, "Kemet," (the Egyption's didn't have vowels,) which is the Egyptian word for, "Egypt," is actually where we get the word, "Chemistry."
Hmm... Well this is an interesting article. It makes sense that they would use hair products and to preserve those hairstyles in death, we still do this today with undertakers preparing bodies for funerals. It would be interesting to find a mummy with a preserved hairstyle, maybe we could bring back some Egyptian style :) -Erica H
This was a fun article to read! it makes sense to use a fatty substance for a hair product to achieve the desired look back then. In the picture provided by the article it seemed to make the hair hold up pretty well over time!
It seems that the funeral house rituals have been around for a lot longer then we thought, and have not changed that much. It also seems that if Egyptians were going to go through all the work of preparing a body for death, hair would be a part of that. Using the fat is the same as putting an oil of some kind which will protect it from, drying out and protecting from elemental conditions.
Egyptians were very concerned about the afterlife, I think it makes perfect sense that some of them wanted hair styles to follow them after death. Money isn't worth much if you can't pay a hair stylist after death.
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I feel that as long as humans have been civilized appearance has always been important. I would love to know if this is the first case of hair treatment or if cases of this can be dated even further back
Tazheem Rubio
The Egyptians knew a lot about various chemicals actually. A lot of it was probably because of their ritual embalming but some was medicinal too it seems. For instance, they gave opium to babies in order to calm them.
Another interesting fact; the Egyption word Kmt, or, "Kemet," (the Egyption's didn't have vowels,) which is the Egyptian word for, "Egypt," is actually where we get the word, "Chemistry."
Hmm... Well this is an interesting article. It makes sense that they would use hair products and to preserve those hairstyles in death, we still do this today with undertakers preparing bodies for funerals. It would be interesting to find a mummy with a preserved hairstyle, maybe we could bring back some Egyptian style :)
-Erica H
This was a fun article to read! it makes sense to use a fatty substance for a hair product to achieve the desired look back then. In the picture provided by the article it seemed to make the hair hold up pretty well over time!
-Taylor E.
It seems that the funeral house rituals have been around for a lot longer then we thought, and have not changed that much. It also seems that if Egyptians were going to go through all the work of preparing a body for death, hair would be a part of that. Using the fat is the same as putting an oil of some kind which will protect it from, drying out and protecting from elemental conditions.
Emily Peterson-Wood
Egyptians were very concerned about the afterlife, I think it makes perfect sense that some of them wanted hair styles to follow them after death. Money isn't worth much if you can't pay a hair stylist after death.
- Scott
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