Baldness , hair loss and hair thinning affects both men and women. Despite the fact that there is no known natural baldness cure, hair loss sufferers, driven by self-esteem issues, seek a way to stop their hair loss by experimenting with a variety of home remedies and herbal or so called natural baldness remedies that have been tried with little success for centuries. Regardless of generations of men and women testing such cures to no avail, businesses and unscrupulous vendors make untold fortunes selling natural baldness cures.
The ancient Egyptians believed that rubbing your head with a mixture of onion, iron, honey and alabaster and then chanting to the sun god, was a cure for baldness. Even as far back as 1500 BC, people were concerned with hair loss and tried to persuade their gods to help regrow their hair. Samson, the most famous hair loss victim, drew his physical strength from his hair. Samson, an Israelite, slough 1000 Phillistines with the jawbone of an ass. They came to hate Samson, who was a threat to their power. Samson falls in love with Delilah, a Philistine women, who is persuaded by the Philistines to become a spy and find the secret of her lover’s power. Eventually, Samson tells Delilah that his power comes from his hair. Delilah has a servant cut off Samson’s hair. He loses his strength, is beaten, blinded and imprisoned by the Philistines. Hair loss was Samson’s downfall. In Rome, Julias Caesar was said to constantly wear a wreath upon his head as to conceal his balding crown, and, after winning a battle over his enemies, he would shave the heads of his prisoners of war to humiliate them. Even, Hippocrates, father of modern medicine flogged a natural hair loss cure: a mixture of cumin, horseradish, beetroot, and pigeon dropping. It is safe to say that if this somewhat disgusting baldness cure was packaged and sold on the Internet today, someone, somewhere would buy it.
Hair is also a fashion and goes in and out of style. Romans shaved their heads and faces, other cultures prized facial hair while others considered it filthy. Powdered wigs were the fashion in Europe in the 18th Century. Partially, the perfumed wigs helped conceal dirty hair, but, the Europeans could have done that with a hat. They chose hair. They wanted hair. It is with little doubt that the fashion came from the wealthy and powerful middle-aged men, trying to conceal their balding heads. Wigs became the style in Europe back the day of King Louis XIII of France (1601–1643) and remained a style in Britain until in 1795, the British government levied a tax on wig powder. This old fashion tax grab would have netted fortunes as wigs were worn by most adults. By 1800, the costly tax on wig powder ended the fashion of wig wearing in England.
