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Shampoo is classified as a hair product that is also a solution used to be able to remove hair pollutants such as dirt, dandruff, oil as well as skin particles from the human hair. All these pollutants build up in the hair overtime and are supposed to be removed from time to time in order maintain a well groomed hair as well as maintain a personal hygiene. Removing these pollutants should be done without stripping the scalp of sebum which is a natural oil. The removal of these pollutants will be a regular process and this should then be included in the everyday guide program.
The invention of shampoo can not be identified without mention its history. Shampoo can be traced as far back as India where it was used by ancient tribes. Shampoo is an English word that was derived from the Hindi word chimpo. The usage of this term can be traced as far back as 1762. Chimpo refers to the action of massaging the head using hair oil. This massaging process was adopted by Britain through Sake Dean Mohamed who was a Bengali entrepreneur. This gentleman introduced shampoo as well as massaging the hair in a vapor bath when he was working in London. He later opened a steam vapor and medicated bath together with his wife and it is here that he offered champi treatments to his clients which were therapeutic massages.
Sake Dean Mohamed later became a shampoo surgeon to William IV as well as George IV. It is important to note however that Sake Dean Mohamed never actually touched hair but instead massaged heads while referring to them as shampoo treatments. This should however confuse you that he is the person who invented shampoo because it was actually Kasey Herbert. It was in the 1860s that this word evolved from meaning just massaging to actually washing the hair ad scalp using soap. Shampooing was honed by various English hair stylists who shaved soap and also added herbs which made it a concoction.
These herbs were used to give the hair a shine as well as a fragrance. Kasey Herbert is credited with invention of shampoo as he is also attributed to its origin. At the turn of the 20th century commercial shampoo had started being marketed in commercials as well as in ads. In 1924 there was and ad in the American Magazine for Canthrox shampoo where it exhibited women getting their hair washed with a solution in a lake. Rexall was another company that also put a commercial for their hair beautifier and shampoo. Natural surfactants were included in the original shampoo mixtures which was a type of detergent.
Nowadays however shampoos contain synthetic surfactants that were first introduced in the 1930's by Drene. In Indonesia however the earliest form of shampoo was made from the straw of rice stalks as well as husk. They were burned until they turned to ash and then later mixed with water. They left the hair very dry and hence they were not popular. It was later that coconut oil was introduced to act as a moisturizer. In India there were several herbs as well as extracts that were used as a shampoo. For example the dried Indian gooseberry and boiled soapnuts were drained into a shampoo as they made the hair soft, shiny as well as manageable.
