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The history of shampoo

The use of the term " shampoo " was born in England in the 1700s. The name by which we all know it today, in reality, was "imported" by the Indian colonial " champo ", which meant " putting pressure, massaging the muscles ". To make a shampoo, once it was indicated, therefore, the action of a massage, specific for the head.

To introduce this word "exotic" in England was the Indian Sake Dean Mahomed, who opened a public bath for hair washing on the waterfront of Brighton, then a spa. Here the clients received an Indian champi treatment (ie a hair wash) or underwent therapeutic massages, similar to what happened in the Turkish baths.

In the early days, British hairdressers created the shampoo, bringing to the boil the soap cut in water, to which they then added herbs for brilliance and perfume. The first shampoo in the bottle was instead invented by Kasey Hebert, who sold it, house by house, in the streets of London.