You Smell Like a Brewery

by WiredBerries Editors — March 13, 2008

After much goading, a friend recently revealed that she uses a beer wash to get shiny hair. Surprised that my hip and modern friend relied on such an old-fashioned beauty regime, I checked out the UCLA Online Archive of American Fold Medicine for old-school techniques to get shiny locks:

• Condition with an egg
• Rub Vaseline through it and leave on all night, then shampoo in the morning
• Rinse with lemon
• Wash with rain water
• Rinse with rosemary water
• Eat a lot of Kobu (seaweed)
• Wash with vinegar

I'm not sure walking around smelling like egg salad is worth shiny hair, but I might just give it a try to find out.