Hair: An Owner's Handbook

by Philip Kingsley

A handbook on preserving, caring for and enhancing hair, which contains information on the different hair types, basic care, hair problems, and includes a section on baldness and its treatment. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854103369
• ISBN13: 9781854103369
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Good reference book

We're often given misinformation about the actual science of our hair, such as getting it cut will make it grow faster (if the end of the hair had nerves signalling back to the follicle inside the head, then it would hurt to get a haircut!) and other such nonsense, so this is a very good reference book on the biology of our hair and how the environment and other factors affect it.However, I must disagree with some of the information in the book. The author says that all hair should be washed every day to keep it healthy. If we did nothing else to our hair, that might ring true, but when you add blow dryers, curling irons, and other chemical processes, I personally believe it can be more harmful to wash hair that often.My advice is to read the book but keep in mind that every word is not gospel. I think it's sad that the book is generally not available in the US except through second-hand stores. I trust the scientific information in it a lot more than I do many books on the subject of hair.