historical hair care

[TatsuOni]

I saw someone mention old combs being fine toothed. I went to a museum in Sweden last year and took pictures of every comb But I realize that I never shared the pictures on LHC. I'll tell the time period on the ones I still remember.


Viking age.


Viking age.


Viking age.


Viking age.


Down in the right corner is a comb. Bronze age I think.


Stone age bone comb. The oldest comb found in Sweden around 3000 years BC.


Not sure from when these are.


Not sure about this one either.


Medieval.

Many of them were quite fine toothed but of various degrees. A lot of the older ones are made from bone. I figure it was easier to just "saw" into them in lines with a stone, saw, knife or what they used during that time. There may have been combs made from wood too, but as they won't have survived, we'll never know what kind of teeth they had.

[Shorty89]

Oooh, those are super cool!

[Sarahlabyrinth]

You can buy replica bone Viking combs online if anyone wants one, too.

[TatsuOni]

You can buy replica bone Viking combs online if anyone wants one, too.

Yes, but be wary of the quality. Not all of them are hair friendly.

[LittleQuill]

Thanks so much, Tatsu for sharing the photos. What a fascinating look! I've only ever seen photos of these types of things on news posts about newly unearthed things from digs and such. To know they're sitting in an actual museum for regular people to plant their eyes on is pretty boggling to me. A lot of them are so intricately made, too. This is probably one of the coolest posts I've ever seen. Wow. Is there more?

[TatsuOni]

Thanks so much, Tatsu for sharing the photos. What a fascinating look! I've only ever seen photos of these types of things on news posts about newly unearthed things from digs and such. To know they're sitting in an actual museum for regular people to plant their eyes on is pretty boggling to me. A lot of them are so intricately made, too. This is probably one of the coolest posts I've ever seen. Wow. Is there more?

More combs? Unfortunately not. Those were all of the combs from the museum. But I have photos of other objects from there. One of hair, that seemed to be part of some type or burial ritual.

[Fethenwen]

Wow, that is so cool TatsuOni! Thanks for sharing, I really need to visit that museum some day (not just because of the combs, lol)

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Small update, my hair keeps looking so much nicer because of all the combing and brushing that I have been doing. But it is time consuming! Like omg, washing combs and brushes and combing every day is just too much. Not worth it, but I have noticed that I get nice results even if I am more lazy about it. I do a thorough combing every third day.

I did not manage to stretch my washes to 1x/week, but I have managed to stretch my washes from every 3-4 days to every 4-5 days. Especially if my hair looks a little dirty on day 4, if I comb and brush thoroughly my hair looks soft and shiny instead of oily the next day. If I go more days than that I might get trouble with my scalp getting itchy and flaky.

I have noticed that my hair is so much less frizzy than it used too, or more like, there is no frizz! I still wash my hair with rye flour, but not religiously. If I get build-up (from whatever it is) I use a sulfate free shampoo and light conditioner. Perhaps I need to use it every second month or so.

Also I got two new combs! Now all my tools are from natural material and static free. I will post some pics soon.