The Hair Bible: A Complete Guide to Health and Care [Paperback]

Philip Kingsley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2003

Providing a complete guide to preserving and enhancing the health and appearance of hair, this guide explains how to identify hair type and select shampoos and conditioners to match it; how to avoid the dangers inherent in potentially damaging processes, such as dying, permanent waving, coloring, and bleaching; and the use of brushes, curlers, and pins. Everyday problems such as split ends and dandruff are addressed as are less common problems that may be the result of allergies, ill health, or climate. There are chapters on babies’ and children’s hair, and issues that may arise in pregnancy or old age are covered. Whether hair is viewed as a crowning glory, a problem that just won’t go away, or something that’s going away all too fast, this book provides answers to just about any hair question.

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From the Publisher

In The Hair Bible, renowned tricologist Philip Kingsley provides you—whatever your age, sex, or race—with a complete guide to preserving and enhancing the health and appearance of one of your most important assets. He explains how to identify your hair type and how to select shampoos and conditioners to match it; how to avoid the dangers inherent in potentially damaging processes, such as dying, permanent waving, coloring, bleaching, and the use of brushes, curlers, and pins. He deals with everyday problems, like split ends and dandruff, as well as less common problems that may be the result of allergies, ill health, or climate. There are chapters on babies’ and children’s hair and issues that may arise in pregnancy or old age. Whether you consider your hair to be your crowning glory, a problem that just won’t go away, or something that’s going away all too fast, The Hair Bible will provide you with all the help you need.

About the Author

Philip Kingsley has been a practising trichological consultant since 1955. He has founded clinics in London, New York and Singapore, including one in Harrods department store, and currently has a client list of around 20,000 people. Among the celebrities he has advised are Mick Jagger, Sigourney Weaver and Ivana Trump; his clients also include politicians and royalty. The author of The Complete Hair Book, Philip Kingsley regularly contributes expert advice to newspapers and magazines and has appeared on many television programmes, both in Britain and the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Aurum Press (May 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1854109065
• ISBN-13: 978-1854109064
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging > Skin Ailments

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0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a fascinating theological vantage point, February 16, 2008

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Kirk Davis (Oslo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hair Bible: A Complete Guide to Health and Care (Paperback)

From the very beginning, when Eve's long locks were first used to hide her tenderest parts . . . clear through to John of Patmos' hair-raising, wild-bearded revelations of the end-times, this book has it all. I especially like early Roman hair. Forget about aqueducts, those people were doing French braids before France even existed!

4 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just a Re-release!, December 3, 2005

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R. Hadley "japan1" (PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hair Bible: A Complete Guide to Health and Care (Paperback)

This book is just a republished version of his 1995 book "Hair: An Owner's Handbook" I was upset when I received this book because I already own the 1995 version. I returned it at once.

4 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keep your hair healthy gals!, August 3, 2007

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The Patriarch - See all my reviews

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Hey here, Patriarch there. Ummm...that's not right. Whatever. I've got to hurry up and review this book!!! Women's hair health is at stake. On with the show!

OK gals. I've really got a lot of good info for you and this book does to. Did you know a woman's hair is supposed to be about down to her mid-back?! Yep, if you've ever seen a healthy newborn baby girl, you'll notice that her hair is this length. And no matter what you do to it, cut it with scissors, burn it with fire, shave it with a razor, as long as the girl is healthy, the hair will almost immediately grow right back! If your daughter is born and she is bald or has very little hair then she is VERY ILL. And needs the doctor's medical attention. Now if you look at most women today, their hair is about shoulder-length. This means they are pretty healthy. They probably just aren't eating right. Also, they could be eating very well and not be getting the vitamins they need due to all the chemicals and crap farmers put in our foods. Go organic and do your hair a favor. Now when a women gets a horrible disease like cancer, it is not uncommon for her to lose her hair completely. This means she will die soon. That's pretty sad.

Take a look at America's History of women's hair

1910s- very long hair, women were very healthy.

1920s-chin length hair, women were very sickly because they spend all their time doing the Charleston

1930s-still about chin length. The Great Depression caused women to be sickly

1940s-WWII helped strengthen America and American's hair. It was about shoulder length.

1950s-fall out from nuclear fission caused some women to be ill. Hair ranged from shoulder length to chin length. Some healthy girls had longer hair of course.

1960s-The hippies lived a very organic lifestyle, therefore women finally were very healthy and had hair that was about mid-back as they are supposed to.

1970s- Women were still very healthy. The hippie culture had caught on.

1980s- Reagan's trickle down economics screwed up a lot of women's health therefore hair can be seen as all different lengths. There were some women who were very unhealthy and had boy length hair.

1990s-Very similar to the 80s. Clinton did just as poorly as Reagan so there were a lot of unhealthy women.

2000-Women are healthy due to the organic health craze, but due to, as previously stated, all the chemicals and stuff we are still consuming, women are not as healthy as they should be. There is also a strange disease going around that causes their hair to be long and short at the same time! It's like all different lengths, and colours too.

So it looks like things are getting better for women's health, but things could get better. Read this book and other important health-food books gals and you will see your hair will become the proper length in no time.