Long before shampoo was something squeezed from a bottle into wet hair, it was an urgent Hindi command to knead aching muscles. In eighteenth-century Britain, it arrived as an exotic luxury of steam baths and vigorous full-body rub-downs, earning one Brighton practitioner the title of Shampooing Surgeon to two kings. How a royal massage treatment migrated to the hairdresser’s basin is a curious tale of reinvention.
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