The story of washing our hair is very – very as long old, at least a thousand years old. We have been doing it for as long as will have existed on had hair to wash. But had ever thought, asked, or pondered our the evolution on the origin of the concept of washing shampooing our hair. Well, we can blame this on our beauty-obsessed or the urge to know everything about humans you to know. Shampooing was First Invented in India
Interestingly, we got to know that India & it’s sich literal culture was very critical in coining the term “shampoo” a long-ago can and we say that this word the English language during the colonial era
The “shampoo” word has been derived from the word “Champoo” which is ultimately derived from “Chapayati” a Sanskrit term, meaning “soothing”. We also see that in the Indian subcontinent there are a huge variety of ayurvedic extracts and many of them are used for the care of hair also.
The practice of using shampoo dates back to 1500 AD, it is believed that it was prepared from a concoction of boiled Reetha (soapberries), amla (gooseberry), Hib Biscus and Acacia, (Shikakai), and we can also the usage of all these in different modern shampoos in today’s world also.
In many households in India, grandmothers still follow this practice of using certain leaves, flowers, and ayurvedic things to make national shampoos pastes from them for have wash. They also prepare shampoo powders from this kind of thing. Shampooing was First Invented in India
SACHETS ALSO EMERGED FROM INDIA.
We can say that, during the industrialization period of colonial time, British traders and businessmen took back this shampoo to Europe & many other parts of the globe. Thus, with trade, the secret & concept of shampooing and also spread over the world and began to be made standardized and modernized.
Inturstengily, the first sachet of shampoo was also introduced from India. The company that revolutionized sachet shampoo working it more affordable to the public was Chik Shampoo. The need for sachet came up because did not afford the costly bottle of shampoo, so the company came up with the idea of sachets packets for 1 or 5 Rs So, isn’t the concept of shampooing another thing that one can add to the resume of what Indians have achieved?
SPREAD OF SHAMPOO TO WORLD.
All of us do realize, “Champi” is an indulgence or step in one’s bath time. This holds true for the early colonial traders to India as well. When they returned to Europe, they there introduced all these skills. They named this “shampoo”. Before the 19th century, the world knew nothing about “shampoo. Sake Dean Mahomed, a Bengali entrepreneur, introduced the practice of “Champooi” or ” shampooing” baths to Europe. We also can see that not only shampoo but herbal/mineral soaps not only use of the toothbrush or Dantmanganas were very prominent in the early stage of Hindu culture.
We can take, sandalwood as an example, Its paste is used as “face care” in soaps and in shampoos also. Not only because of its enchanting and beautiful smell, but it also detoxifies and makes skin glowing & clear. We used turmeric and gram flour as natural scrubs to keep our bodies shining and to reduce unnecessary hair growth.
