I Tried Following a Real Edwardian Hair Care Routine

The fact that she refers to her guinea pig as “his lordship” makes my entire life

And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, that's why people like to dress vintage, talk vintage, but never live vintage.

I never realized that when the local bullies smashed eggs on my head they were just concerned for the cleanliness of my hair. If only they had brought rosemary extract too.

So this is where that phrase came from, “sorry, I can’t go out tonight, I’ve got to... wash my hair”

This Immortal Being pretending she didn't already have that handbook...

Bernadette: washes hair with egg and lets hair dry in sun Heckin guinea pig : gets bathed in custom shampoo and dried using a hair dryer.

My grandma used to wash my hair like this. She mixed up the egg & water in a bowl and wet my hair with the egg mixture starting at the tips and working it up to the roots. There was very little pouring involved. The length was dunked into the bowl. The reason for rinsing in the coolest water you can stand is that it closes the pores and your scalp will stay clean longer allowing you to go longer between washes. Grandma would have me dunk my head into a small washtub with water in it. We would rinse out as much as possible with the hair submerged then dump the tub and rinse a final time pouring clean water over the head. I don’t recall anything but egg and water in the mixture, but I was 8 🤷🏼‍♀️. I enjoyed your video tremendously... just wanted to share that it doesn’t have to be that difficult ❤️

I've always wanted to know what my grandmother, born in the Edwardian era, meant when she told me about saving her hair for a rat. Thank you.

Hi Bernadette, I'm a certified Beauty Therapist & I think your substitute ingredients & process is what caused the scrambled eggs (sorry). Egg was a common hair treatment right up until the 1980s, when the whole herbal influence took over. As a child in the 1970s, I remember many brands had an Egg Creme shampoo or Egg & Milk shampoo, it was a very common variety of soap/detergent based hair shampoo, no different to today's. Egg shampoos were just more creamy & they smelled not of eggs, but more like a vanilla custard. Historically, when hair & body cleansing products were made at home, it was common to use a form of alcohol like Bay Rum, (an alcohol-based scent made with bay leaves & spices, still used in men's toiletries). Alcohols serve many purposes in beauty products other than killing germs, it's a solvent, they help break down the fatty or lumpy texture to make a lighter product, they can act as an anti-foaming agent & as an astringent or a preservative; fatty alcohols even help keep an emulsion from separating into water & oil. For some of these reasons, I believe the Rosemary product you needed was an alcohol-based cologne of sorts & not the essential oil you were forced to use; it should have formed an emulsion, so there would be no separate egg to cook & settle in your hair. If that's so, you could probably use any old-style cologne or a genuine alcohol-based food essence as a substitute. Regarding the process, hair was often washed initially in the bathtub, purely for the volume of water required & then it was rinsed by pouring jugs, pans or buckets of clean water over, to rinse off the bathwater. I hope this has been of some help. Best wishes to you & the floof :)

This is why "sorry, I have to wash my hair" used to be a valid excuse to avoid plans.

I tried this yesterday with my naturally curly, coarse, thick hair, and might I say, I had to use literal ice water, BUT my hair was so shiny and luscious afterwards, it was well worth it. Just be careful my scrambled egg friends!

People who are allergic to eggs back then: Guess i’ll just die.

I think what’s really missing is the team of servants to do this for you

This video is hilarious, and only made funnier by the fact she seems to speak in cursive.

My grandmother said: The trick is to separate the yoke and egg white and only wash your hair with the yoke. Yoke takes the greasiness out of the hair and it easier to clean.

My Grandmother was born in 1897. When I was young, I remember seeing her (in the early morning, once a week) sit on a kitchen chair in front of her oven with the oven door open and (leaning over the opened oven door) she would rub her long, freshly washed hair with a bath towel. She used the heat of the oven to help dry her hair. She did this until her hair was dry and ready to style into her braided up-do for the day. Your video reminded me of that fond memory. Thank you. :D

I read the title as "following Edward Cullen's hair care routine"

Epic Image: Bernadette lounging on her sewing table.

Low key, I'd be interested in knowing what your modern-day haircare routine is, because your hair is so long and healthy with loads of shine and seemingly no frizz. I want that. T-T

I want to read a novel about an Edwardian lady living a merry life with her Guinea pig friend!!