Following a Victorian Home Made Hair Care Routine (1889)
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Sources:
Logan, Mrs. John A. "The home manual. Everybody's guide in social, domestic, and business life. A treasury of useful information for the million. Profusely illustrated. The contents of one hundred books in a single volume." United States of America: H. J. Smith & Co, 1889. archive.org/details/homemanua...
Washing the hair: p. 160
Dyeing the hair: p. 158 - 159
Curling fluid: p. 157
Woodbury, William A. "Beauty Culture: a practical handbook on the care of the person, designed for both professional and private use". London: Fisher Unwin, 1911. archive.org/details/b28054520...
Hair "spray": p. 178
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - A Fluid to Curl the Hair
5:29 - A Message From Our Sponsor
6:40 - One Week Later
8:51 - To Keep the Hair in Curl
11:49 - A Dark Dye
16:06 - Washing the Hair
18:39 - Dyeing the Hair
21:05 - Curling the Hair
23:36 - Dressing the Hair
26:38 - In Conclusion
On the subject of safety: while the intent of this experiment was to test the making and application of these recipes within the context of the average at-home Victorian, all recipes were assessed and approved by 21st century chemists before filming to ensure that no harm would be done when using these ingredients in a casual, non-laboratory setting, as would have been done in the 19th century. The steps which did require additional safety precautions were performed out the window and/or with respiratory protection. As stated in the video, please conduct thorough research before attempting any historical recipe. This video is intended for educational and entertainment purposes, and is not a tutorial.
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Thank you for writing this. You should pin this comment; I find it greatly reassuring that you conferred with a chemist before trying all this.
Where may I send you a proper corkscrew? ^_^"
Also remember that baking soda can absorb odors, so having some in areas that have no windows might help keep smells to a minimum. Loved this video! Have you ever done hairstyles/dress/attire from 1793? I’m currently reading a book set in this time and I’m trying to understand their attire. The internet is never quite as accurate as you are! :)
Also wanted to mention that pharmacists today still use a similar measuring instrument in order to measure out more viscous medications!
is nobody gonna mention how the historical content youtubers are all in a group chat im crying
They're the most wholesome group I've found on KZhead.
i would love to be a fly on the wall in that chat
@@theburts3 i would be a lizard in the ceiling in the chat
fellow viseul enjoyer omg hiiiii
@@nohtopia this is such a niche crossover helloo
“Gee, Marge, what are those funny smells coming from The neighbor’s flat?” “She’s a Victorian, Harold”
"Harold, they're victorians"
@@peaceblossom8 😂
LMAOOO
@@peaceblossom8 😄🧡
So can I use the same excuse when I stagger home in the early hours of Sunday morning, Marge?
The sass of the author on hair dye was incredible. I love that they all but say “it’s immoral to dye hair” but they still include it in the book
It’s the sassy Victorian way of saying, “How unpleasantly distasteful and ungrateful.”
“If you do this, you a hoe… but this is how you do it.”
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I looked up the book you got most of the recipes from and saw "oh, it has a section on diet for invalids. Well, I count as one often, let's see what it says" and not only does it have quite good advice, but the care and gentleness and desire for the person who is not well to get better is so apparent in the text, it honestly made me tear up a bit because I know with my disabilities my family has frequently expressed frustration with having to make me food or do things like laundry for me. "Another point to be borne in mind is that the food should suit the invalid's taste, be tempting in appearance, and daintily served. Soiled or crumpled napkins should never be placed on the invalid's waiter, and the prettiest china should not be regarded as too good to hold the sufferer's food and drink." this feels so soft and nurturing and compassionate. It makes my heart happy, while also hurting, because it's very sweet and I wish I could be treated with such care.
Having dealt with disabilities as well, even the most compassionate of family members sometimes get fatigued, and it feels awful to be the person causing it. That advice seems to be so much more compassionate even than what we're told today. Especially when doctors tell you to cure your pain with exercise when you can't even get out bed because of the pain.
Virginia Woolf’s mom, Julia Jackson, was a skilled lay nurse and wrote an entire book on this subject. Her tone is similar.
Big 🫂 hugs
Class would've been a big issue here. The upper class - the ones most likely to afford books and cosmetics - would've been able to make these considerations. There's also the fact that the British upper class have always been (and still are ngl) *obsessed* with appearances. So long as they look to be the graceful benevolent overlord anything goes. Someone in a workhouse though? Or in service to their betters? Honestly I wouldn't like to say. It's a sweet but dangerous notion that this gentle caring tone would've been applicable to everyone. The way modern society treats disabled people is disgusting but don't let the idea that you would've been better off back then get to you, it's not really true.
@@K_i_t_t_y84 Honestly, divorce him. You deserve to be treated with as much compassion and care as you treat others.
Bernadette: Here is my authentic victorian measuring tools, my mortar and pestle, and my miniature hammered brass cauldron. Also Bernadette: I do not own a corkscrew.
Nor a funnel
Was just gonna make the same joke but got there very late, obviously! :D
I was actually shocked she doesn't own one. I hope she will buy one to avoid future wine disasters lmao
Or a regular kitchen scale
@@cleliaoconnell3705 she has said in a previous video that she doesn’t drink so there isn’t really a necessity for a corkscrew
Your friends are just like “yup she’s drunk” and offer no usable help just giggles
The closest she got to useful help was Angela’s warning that alcohol can enter the body through any mucous membrane, not just the digestive system.
They did say to drink water 🤷♀️
Well...you can't un-spilled milk. The deed was already done.
In my experience, giving advice to one who is already drunk is as useful as pouring water onto a duck.
@@Eloraurora sewstine is also a doctor (anesthesiologist specifically), so the recommendation to drink water is from a highly knowledgeable source!
My roommate is a chemical engineer. The face he made at some of these ingredient lists was frankly hilarious
Yeah, I'm a wine chemist so I was doubly wounded
Yes well "science" is not really any better with all the awful things they use now days
MadGabLunatic. All their science is for the nwo. Fake climate change is the covert supplement to the fake war on terror. i.e. Ancient Iraq (war) order number 81: You are not allowed to save seeds, and etc. etc., transforming into a smart city/country/world of fake news and fake edu. UCB needs to change it´s mascot from The Bears to The Robots. (Remote controlled robots programmed with lies for unagenda 2030: gnd/global governance/nwo control sciences: science that works against nature). None of them can speak a word of truth. As they buy up the houses and drive electric cars under the (fake clean energy patent): artificial sun/artificial (at&t clouds). They stole our true connection. The Calif. drought and fires were visibly engineered since 2012. But none of them see or look up (or notice the plants and trees, birds and bees). They all deny it. This statement comes from a mom of four, two teens and two young adults all raised in nature. (Without a False Smart Connection.) Techies and Bio-techies drove up the housing costs and drove All the natural people out of Sf bay. These course-programs to follow are at UC beijing (formerly Berkeley) alone: bio-engineer chem. grad students, synthetic biology students, fake meterology, fake physics, un agenda 2020 stack n pack planned human habitation zones
@@ryandoyle3413 Modern¨Wine¨ is filled glyphosate (roundup and harmful chemicals) unless organic.
@@ryandoyle3413what's a wine chemist?
I love how she’s dressed Victorian and there’s all this Victorian stuff all over the table and then there’s just a MacBook 💻
Men in the Victorian era: women are so stupid lol Meanwhile: every woman doing chemistry and physics in their free time
True although to be fair a lot of people did sicken themselves or die from these DIY chemistry experiments 😬
@@feelthejoy to catch the eye of the men and their parents to keep.
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Has a pipkin and Victorian measuring items, but doesn’t own a corkscrew or a funnel. I’m absolutely here for it.
She did say that she went to buy the Victorian measuring glass (should have picked up a Victorian corkscrew at the same time!)
Or a wine opener..
Plus an apothecary scale lol
@@comfypluviophile that’s what a corkscrew is
I had to giggle at that
Just in case anyone is curious, she made rose tea, not water, and if you are planning to ingest it don't use commercial roses because they will have had pesticides!
good to know and i love your pfp :3
Most modern rose varieties you find at the florist won't have much of the fragrance older cultivars would have had. That's another reason not to use florist roses.
I'm reminded of Oscar Wilde when I think of questionable Victorian hair care. His trademark floppy curled dark brown hair was, unsurprisingly, not natural, and his sister-in-law described his natural hair as "not of very good natural quality or quantity, of indistinctive brown colour, rather straight and lank." Also, he began to grey early, something which he was very self conscious about, and which was made obvious during his time in prison when he didn't have access to hair products. All of this meant that available hair dyes were neither strong enough nor easily available enough for his tastes. You may also know of Wilde's trademark large fur coat, which would have been heavily dyed to give it a richer and more uniform colour. It is widely believed that Wilde used fur dyes, which were deemed harmful for human use even then, to dye his hair. On several occasions Wilde is quoted as having complained about an unexplainable rash which he didn't know the source of. Many 20'th century historians attributed this to syphilis, due to Wilde's reputation for homosexuality and promiscuity. Oscar Wilde did not have syphilis, this is something we now know. So the only reasonable explanation is that this man was using dangerous fur dyes to keep his hair pretty, and honestly I think that's kind of iconic. If you can't tell I think too much about Oscar Wilde Edit: While coming back to this comment after another year of Wilde fixation and research, I noticed a couple inaccuracies in my original comment. -I said that Oscar Wilde did not have syphilis. This is inaccurate. Although it is almost certainly not what killed him (he is believed to have died of meningitis, although it's possible syphilis may have exacerbated the problem) we have no concrete proof that he didn't have it. Wilde is known to have slept with many prostitutes throughout his life, both male and female, and it's perfectly possible that he may have had syphilis. However, the rash he experienced does not align with symptoms of syphilis -The ingredient in question was PPD, or para-phenylenediamine. This was used commonly for both hair and fur dying in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although it was known to cause health problems when used on humans. Although does still appear in certain hair dyed, PPD is now a regulated substance.
Ooh really? Neat!
Oscar Wilde will always live rent free in my mind forever.
@@VenusTemple literally like ten percent of my mental capacity is taken up by thinking about Oscar Wilde. I feel like when most people pick a celebrity to obsess over it's not an infamous gay writer who died a hundred years before they were born.
@@thetaaaa my special little historical figure that takes up 10% of my brain is Gaius Marius so I’m extremely happy about finding out that there are people like me out there
@@emryscaster7332 it's a strange feeling, knowing more about the life of someone who died hundreds of years before you were born than you know about the lives of most of your friends
This makes me think of a scenario where a jaded husband claims his wife was a witch for making “potions” when really she was just making hair products.
Whoawww yesss they definitely did
I think for sure some victorian woman got killed because of this, especially when the recipees were not so widely known lol.
@@colcat1 I was thinking exactly the same thing when I saw this video! Poor women 😢
That sounds like a interesting scenario for a fictional period piece. Or a dark historical comedy.
the last witch killing happened a solid 100 years earlier though.
Victorian women were straight up chemists. They deserve a lot more recognition.
Many times those recipes were provided by men,,
@@user-id8ih I get it. You hate women. Calm down, you’re being too emotional.
@@lilithfury8116 I don’t, society was misogynistic back then
@@user-id8ih Do you have citations for this claim?
@@ava_marie_v it doesn’t take much to do a quick google search
When she opened the wine via brute force I figured she doesn't drink, but when I saw her ask if she can get drunk on alcohol fumes I knew she doesn't drink. Hilarious!
This explains so much. I guess I really wasn’t sober at the bar, I didn’t have anything to drink but I felt a bit tipsy and there were fumes. Me at bars😂
@@s.eljaouhari .... you cannot get drunk on alcohol fumes. You can however get light headed and oxygen starved. But of you come to a gig of mine I can get you drunk by drinking it?
@@haydenbsiegel Depends on where you are.
@@s.eljaouhari Manhattan! I mean for right now at least. I am pretty nomadic... but I have regular gigs in Manhattan currently!
@@haydenbsiegel not anywhere I'm headed to
bern: let's make some fun victorian hair products from scratch! also bern: *cuts off a sizeable chunk of her hair just for funnsies :)*
"Noo!" I gasped. As someone who must have short hair, I am extremely envious.
I was largely split ends and untidy pieces, which only start to appear when your hair is that long and you can see how long hair on some parts of your head get before breaking on their own weight or falling out. Most people for quite a while barely have enough hair to say it’s floor length when it does hit the floor.
I don’t even have the longest hair (slightly longer then shoulders) but I ask for 2 inches off when I get my hair cut. Even though it makes my hair so much shorter it reallr isn’t that much off for hair. I can imagine for even longer hair even if the cut piece is longer it won’t make too much of a difference.
Tell me you're not a drinker without telling me you're not a drinker.
Right?! And if the latter, one must always have a proper wine opener in one's possession! It's a must!! .... lol.
I'd have been the same haha
You become a drinker when wash your hair with 95% alcohol 😂 victorian women suffered a lot
Last time I opened a corked wine at my house was maybe 10 years ago? But I do have a corkscrew in my kitchen 😂
@@mayfair_forest_witch We have a corkscrew in the kitchen and another one in the RV even though we don’t drink because people are always so happy when they don’t have one and you have one they can borrow. 😂
Anyone else yell at Bernadette “Gloves woman, GLOVES?!!” To protect her beautiful hands.
Gloves and a corkscrew
@@Mysmichelle69 And a funnel.
@@somebodyelse138 indeed!
Nah, it was all intentional to reeeeaaally show off her sponsor! Pffft, do you think Bernadette wouldn't have thought of all of these things in advance or misplaced things she thought she had during a transatlantic move like some completely normal mortal person instead of it being done on purpose to appease the sponsorship gods like the galaxy-brained sentient antique walking skirt she clearly is? Wait...that makes sens- I mean HERESY! Call a commissar quick! Obvs was just joking but it definitely was a great sponsor pairing with the subject at hand (pun intended) 🤣
And goggles!
I'm a wine scientist and watching you murder that cork hurt my spirit lol. The second dye is actually working based on a test we run in our lab. The tannins in the oak and the grapes react with the iron to make a dark pigment, the same used in iron-gall ink. That's definitely what stained your hands :) Anyways, I love your content! You've inspired me to learn make a historical version of an armor set I'm copying from Skyrim
¨Iḿ a wine scientist¨ As mentioned above and to educate readers: Modern¨Wine¨ is filled glyphosate (roundup) and harmful chemicals, unless organic.
My goodness!!! A bottle of Bordeau butchered with a screwdriver then used for a simple hair care routine ! They must have been damn rich to waste good wine in the Victorian era ? Anyway but I'm not so sure that all the products used are perfectly healthy ... without being pessimistic they had weird methods the victorian English to wash your hair ....
@@Jofjcrjpeople drank alcohol and tea like it was water, so it was probably cheaper back then.
I drink wine maybe 3x a year and that bit hurt MY heart.
While listening to the dye recipe, I was thinking “sounds like the dye that made Anne’s hair accidentally green” so I’m glad you added the clip lol
"These are not in fact safety glasses." They protect you from the dangers of not looking super rad!
Maybe also from the shade thrown in the intro to the hair dye!
Gave me Crowley vibes
There should be a Victorian version of '5-Min Craft' called 'Two Hours, Two Days, Two Weeks: Crafts, the Victorian Way' and every week features a different costuber whose craft has to fit into those time frames just like Bernadette's potions.
HELL, YEAH !
I would totally watch that
Would they be actually useful, unlike most of the "5 Minute Crafts"? 😀
@@davidhensley76 Literally any of the costubing community would have to deliberately try to suck in order to be even half as bad as your typical 5MC video! I have too much faith in this community. Especially after seeing that net-and-silk masterpiece that Ms. Abby "just threw together on a whim". I've still got lace insertion ideas swimming about in my brain, I didn't also need lace-on-net-overlay ideas in there, too!
I would watch the HECK out of that.
the rose water making brought me back childhood memories! no, I wasn't a child in the Victorian era, but I used to collect flowers and turn them into some gouache paint sort of thing 🥀🎨
"no, I wasn't a child in the Victorian era" that's exactly what someone who was a child in the Victorian era would say
@@songbirds1361 oops... 👀
I just made very trash potions… which thankfully I did not drink
@@ravenpotter3 i accidentally made blackberry wine 0.o
Just a note: "rose water" is made from a spesific type of roses, which have most fragrant. Like Rosa damascena. Even fresh the smell of the damask rose is so more potient than the typical flower store ones. But when maked to rose water is even more tangible, qualities for which rose oil / water is used for cosmetic purposes. Because the smell can also be obtained from shop roses, but the really useful "stuf" are much more with Damascena.
Drunk History with Bernadette Banner. Different type of history, different type of booze, still makes for excellent content.
I'm teetotal, but when I worked in Wardrobe at a theatre, one of my jobs after the show was to spritz pure vodka (a pure, natural alcohol) on the inside of costumes that wouldn't be going to the cleaners that night. I'd roam the corridors, in my own little cloud of alcohol fumes. I still spritz vodka on the insides of my own clothes after wearing them. It kills the odour-causing bacteria, without the harsh chemicals and strong perfume of Febreze. Vodka is also an excellent mild solvent for blending and diluting the alcohol-based inks I use to hand-colour the stones in my tiaras. (I have a collection of more than 400 tiaras, mostly replicas of historical royal & aristocratic tiaras.)
@@OofusTwillip Can you use rubbing alcohol? Don't want to waste the vodka...lol
Gods, that would be the crossover of a lifetime
@@sarahbb7227 rubbing alcohol contains an additive and leaves sort of an oily residue. Might be able to use denatured alcohol but vodka or everclear would be cheaper
I would LOVE to see Bernadette drunk of of drinking, not just fumes. I think that would be hilarious😂 i also dont think it happens often.
Bernadette: "That burns." Me, a Chemistry major whose olfactory system has been thoroughly desensitized by the smell of ammonia: Ah, the good old days.
Same but because i lived with people who never cleaned their cats litter boxes
me, a chemistry major whose olfactory system is stubbornly sensitive and now is simply EXTRA sensitive to the smell of ammonia and alcohol: WHY would you put that in your hair???
Me, a pharmacy and cosmetics major watching the ingredients of this "diy dye": oh no
@@zamiaramirez1390 ah fuq🤢🤮🤢. My olfactory system peaced out 15 months ago with Covid-19 and never came back.
@@susanachavez3783 pharmacy and cosmetics? What university offers that? I can see a chemistry program offering cosmetic classes.
I love the juxtaposition of the general Victorian aesthetic and utensils AND the apple laptop. Very content-creator-esque 😆💚
Her videos are like an earnest love letter to history
bernadette: accidentally gets drunk off fumes as a result of her dedication to her hair potions karolina, rachel, all her other friends: LMAOOO RIP IN PEACE
lol out lout
SMH my head
Rofl on the floor
sorry for dislike misclicked undone now but i realised that you might get a notif but not one for its un doing
tysm so much
After that... ahem, surprise, that Morgan Donner didn't prepare us all for, watching Bernadette unhesitatingly cutting her hair gave me a small heart attack, not gonna lie.
you said it sister. my thought was.... please no.. please no...
I gasped!
Same 😂😂
I came here looking for this comment.
Same
Bernadette mixing concoctions, moving things around, and talking is a form of ASMR in itself.
I totally agree. Her accent is stumping me though. It’s American but with something else that I can’t pinpoint. (French-Canadian? French?) Whatever it is, she has a lovely voice.
The oak gall and wine dye is the beginning of iron gall ink. If you were to boil it down in an iron pot then add a bit of gum arabic, you'd end up with a beautiful ink. It often starts out brown but eventually oxidizes into black. I don't recommend using it on hair too frequently, even in the less concentrated form, because it's corrosive. Iron gall ink, while rich and dark, is the bane of manuscript conservation because it literally eats away at paper, parchement, and whatever natural material it's used on.
Yet another risky Victorian chemical cosmetic 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
So my great grandma is 99 years young and she just keeps everything, she's a hoarder, but an organized one. Her mom was the same and so was her grandmother. And it's definitely shocking anytime i go in her basement and find more of her grandmother's wardrobe and beauty products from the 1800's just kinda there
That's amazing!! It sounds like it'd be fun to go thru and see what you can find
Make a Twitter to post it all or an instagram
99 years young is such a vibe
@@SuccuberryVT why.
That's AMAZING
From my chemist spouse: Iron sulfate, an acid, is not oxidizing the hair--it's crashing out of solution so you have actual iron in the hair that's colouring the hair fibres. Oxidizers typically lighten the hair, not darken it. As a solution, the acid in the iron sulfate is eating away at the hair and being neutralized in the process, and as a result, the iron's adhering to the hair.
As an addendum: they do not recommend using ferric sulfate (iron sulfate) for dyeing your hair as it's highly acidic and that can cause problems!
Also, most oak gall dyes call for iron as the mordant. It makes the dye dark grey/black rather than lightly tan from just the high level of tannins. The other reason to use the pipkin rather than a pot is that cooper pots were common then, and I have no idea how that might change the dye. I am not a chemist, just a natural dye enthusiast.
Yikes! I think I would shortly be bald!!!
That's so metal
I don't know why, but "crashing out of solution" made me chuckle
Pro tip on the wine: if you can’t get the cork out, it’s sometimes easier to force the cork down into the bottle. Especially if you aren’t going to be drinking it.
“Anne Shirley Cuthbert! What have you done to your hair!? Why, it’s green!” LOVE THE AWAE REFERENCE MAN
Bernadette: modern name “potassium carbonate!” Me: Girl dassa perm! Run!
Exactly
Had me cryinnnnnnngggggg
Oh yeah!
That was exactly my thoughts as well.....potassium carbonate and ammonia....
Yesssss 🤣🤣🤣
Just a quick note, the “rose water” she made is actually rose tea, to make rose water she would have to add a bowl in the center with an upside down lid with ice on it to collect the rose water. As the rose tea evaporates, it’s condensation drips into the bowl and that is rose water. Edit: the fact I made this comment over a year ago and people are still discussing it is so cool to me, especially since I’m actually learning stuff from these replies!
I was thinking the same thing. What she needed was a distillation apparatus so she doesn't lose the aromatic part.
@@janet4900 exactly!
Well I wouldn't consume flower store sold roses. They belong to cut flower family what are dangerous to consume. Learnt that when was working in useful plant society garden/kitchen and they told only consume roses which are grown outside in bushes 😅
@@kuikkis91 I think she's just using it for topical application, not for consumption
@@kuikkis91 to make rose tea best to use organic roses
I was a teenager in the 1980s, and getting a "perm" was common for many of us, and the one thing I remember most was the horrible smell of the perm solution. The perm was done with two different solutions....one to "soften" the hair so it would accept the curl, and then a "hardener" to lock the curl in. It was always done with curlers in one's hair. The smell lingered for days!!!! I believe ammonia was one of the ingredients.
I was also a child of the 80s and I will never forget that fragrance
A dram is approximately 5 milliliters or 1 teaspoon. Unfortunately we still have to learn the apothecary measuring system in pharmacy school. That being said, this video is AMAZING. I adore your commitment to historical accuracy. Thank you for this!
I'm curious, why do you have to learn it? Is there some circumstance during which you may need it?
@@toomanyopinions8353suppose the measuremts are more precise and less fiddly compared to modern measuring. It's like how you will not find a scientist in a lab using volume measurements
Oh wow, I actually know something about Victorian beauty that Bernadette Banner didn't! So, rosemary spirit is alcohol infused with rosemary. It's actually very simple to make: Just put a couple springs of rosemary in a neutral alcohol let set for a week or so. Likewise, a lot of the oils mentioned would have been infused oils---ie oils where the herbs/flowers were put in the oil and let to sit and absorb the essences. As opposed to essential oils which are made using a distilling process and are super concentrated and very expensive. In the 1890's those oils would primarily be available to perfume makers who would combine them with neutral bases. If you want to use essential oils in recipes like this, you need to dilute them first in neutral carrier oil like almond or coconut or even olive oil. The scent will then be much less overwhelming. Really enjoyed this video! Looking forward to the next one!
I love this info!!!
Rosemary spirit is also available at lots of regular supermarkets
Yeah I've been learning some plant medicine and when she added essential oils I was concerned. I've gotten rosemary essential oil in my eye once in the shower because I put some drops on the wall for the smell and then accidentally touched the wall and then my face and it BURNED. Learned that milk is a good way to wash oil based irritants out of the eyes pretty quickly as I stumbled out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel trying to google solutions on my phone with very blurry vision, and I've never been happier that my family drinks milk. Though pouring cold milk on your eyes is also uncomfortable. I recommend adding a bit of hot water so it's more lukewarm and less of a shock to already irritated eyes
@@alexoneil594 I am so glad you shared all of this information already! For anyone wanting to know why milk saves skin or eyes from the burning sensation of essential oils... All oils are acids, primarily made up of essential fatty acids. Despite the fat content of milk, the calcium is still more alkaline (base), so the milk neutralizes the acid in the essential oils (also works for the acids that increase the heat in chiles and peppers).
A note from a person with sensory processing / hearing issues: Your subtitles are the best! [inquisitive music] [concerned stirring] Thank you for putting in the extra effort. It is so appreciated.
Also, at around 14:44, I could not help but think of my favourite quote: If it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid!
@@Rachel-fi4sc my favorite has always been consumption for coughing. She's used it before. 17:40
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Ah, I watch things muted just because I enjoy the silence, haha, so I also got to enjoy these carefully made subtitles.
I guess I'm turning on my subs for the next video.. Bernadette is so cute ahah
*Sulfates are bad for your hair, my great grandmother used honey, rose water, agave, olive oil, aloe vera, diluted water. Nona's hair was so long with gorgeous soft curls. She made bottles for women with alopecia. They saw HUGE results, but also had to stay away salty food and take prenatal vitamins. I remember coming home from school and a lady crying and hugging my grandmother after she was given a bottle from my Nona.*
Your Nona sounds like a beautiful, lovely lady! Thank you for sharing
How wonderful! Cherished memories from a lovely Nona! You should try find those recipes 😀
Why the bold font?
@@blakksheep736 probably because they wanted people to see it and pay attention
Fun fact: the rectified spirit you bought is called "Spirit of the Woods/Jungle" ("Duch Puszczy") in Polish, I have to say that seeing my native language on your channel caught me very off guard 😅
Nikt nie spodziewał się Ducha Puszczy :D
Ah yes, potions class with Professor Banner. I am so here for this!
Oh I would love to go these potion classes at Hogwarts if Professor Banner would teach them!
Better than Snape or Slugworth
statement is valid for both Bernadette and Bruce
@@bookworm_braider3008 *In Captain America voice* I understood that reference
@@Burning_Dwarf Slughorn was not so bad, but Snape... thanks but no thanks
“Everything feels floaty” im ded
Oh I actually know this one. When your hair is sticky after washing. It’s the oil in your hair when you clean it without the chemicals of modern shampoos and conditioners it takes longer to dry out of that sticky phase and after around 30-40 hours it’s soft silky and mouldable and the sticky generally goes away. ( my hair is about 80 inches long I wash it about once a fortnight and I stopped using shampoo and conditioner about three years ago I don’t use anything except cold water though.
your hair is longer than my height!!!!
Is nice to add a teaspoon of borax to a pint or two of water for hair washing?
@@BE74297 Be careful with borax. We used only a few sprinkles to clean chemistry glassware with tons of water. I don't know about it being used outside of our chem lab, but I'd imagine that it would really damage your hair and irritate skin if it's not all rinsed out properly
Your hair isn't caked with natural oil at all? It's not itchy, feels notably oily, or heavy? My hair gets horribly oily in a day and nothing helps with the itchiness of certain spots of my scalp, or keeping it relatively clean longer. (I've tried many different shampoos. Conditioner isn't helping either.) I'm honestly surprised that you can use no product on your hair all at and it's still silky smooth.
wow! those curls totally change your face! so crazy how a "little" change can can make such a big difference!
Chemist Bernadette looking like the granddaughter of Marie Currie is like the opposite of a fever dream for me
Fever reality
@@dinahconsumption3614 dream reality more like less radiation but more alcohol
I think this shows why good ladies' maids were so valuable! All the knowledge, time, and skill to produce fabulous results for your employer - if said employer had the best curls in three counties, your worth was assured.
You can also get drunk by absorbing it through your skin. When I've distilled and spilled the leads (which contain more than just ethyl alcohol) on my hands it made me quite woozy. Though I certainly inhaled the fumes as well.
I had no idea you had such long hair. I mean, I expected long, but not THIS long. Amazing!
It was a privilege to be part of the process, don’t worry, I’ll help you finish the wine and brandy and gift you a corkscrew 😜
I still have half the bottle left, now with the added flavour of marinated cork. 🙃
Sir I have enjoyed the occasional cocktail recipe you have presented and feel this would be an admiral follow up video
@@bernadettebanner You can always use a sieve to get the cork out. I may or may not talk from experience.....
Mr Pinsent being the supportive Fren we all need in life. 👍❤
@Bernadette Banner Off this wine I’m getting notes of plum, oak, and a whisper of marinated cork. It’s the new way- don’t try to convince me otherwise!
Your videos aren't just brain-dead material, you teach us something new and its really refreshing. Thank you
the older i have got the more Victorian i look because my hair is thinning and im losing it here and there i put it up in a bun most days and because clothes are horrid to an older woman the Victorian style makes me look younger//the work these women did to look good is just amazing the time effort etc// thankyou so much for your research x
Old recipes are weird, like I have this cook book from the late 1800’ and there is this one recipe for turtle soup and it literally says “add a turtle”
What whole? ROFL Surely you'd give instructions to remove it from its shell so you could use it to serve the soup in.
logical step imho
No one flinches when they watch islanders and aborigines eating a turtle. There were a lot more of them around and Europeans could purchase them. I wouldn’t but raised in a different era. Wouldn’t eat frogs either.
@@luadraponies I don't think the point here was shock over eating a turtle. I think it's more that the step "add a turtle" is vague and doesn't say in any way how the turtle is to be added.
@@evearellie a lot of prior knowledge is assumed in old recipes, even some from not so long ago.
So for rose water you need a bigger pot with a bowl in the middle, a lid, and ice. You boil the roses in water and the steam rises and collects on the lid (which is upside down and has ice in it) and drips down into the bowl. Kind of like distillation. That’s probably why it didn’t separate. It was tea not water.
There was no rosewater in the hair dye; it was made from red wine, iron sulfate and oak galls.
@@ragnkja they were talking about the curl stuff with the almond oil lmao
Many homes still had a still room for preparing medicines and cosmetics. A little still for distilling non-hybridised roses will yield an amazingly scented attar of roses.
You could also go the whole nine yards and use an alembic
@@pumpkinfaerie which was not supposed to separate, the dye was, and as was already stated, the dye didn't contain any rose water whatsoever
This brought me so much joy that I've rewatched it approximately one thousand times. I especially loved seeing that you hung the extra roses up to dry, as well as your brief alcohol-induced inability to maintain your polished public persona (thank you so much for keeping that whole sequence in, it was absolutely PRECIOUS). What a fun project, I really wish I could do this at home, just for potion-making funsies. I was that kid mixing various herbs and leaves on my property into witchy brews; big surprise that I grew up wanting to wear historical gowns and frolic through the fields.
Same here!!!
I love all your videos. You keep me company when I'm sewing and I stick around to sew longer. I'm also now catching up on all your content for the year.
The scene where she is texting reclined on the sofa just looks so elegant. Even with the towel hair, it's just so regal.
So true!!!
As a Polish person, I love that the 90% proof spirit is a Polish product. It cracked me up every time I saw it, cause I’ve seen people actually drink that
Seeing people drink it is the reason I moved out
My mother (we're American) got it to make vanilla extract but because she's a psychopath she now keeps it on hand and does shots of it for fun. When I was younger she had me do a shot of it to kill a strep infection in my throat. I cried and nearly vomited but after all the burning my throat went numb and the next day the strep was pretty much gone.
holy f but yeah, our fellow poles be like that sometimes and... this is very weird, but also like, inherently polishcore
😂
@@katherinethegreat508 that is both horrifying and something I will keep in mind for future reference lmao 🤣
Always feels like a beautiful documentary with you. Your cinematic creativity is so wonderful
My hats off to you! Wow is all I can say after all that work and research. You did a great job showing and explaining so well. Thank you very much. I really enjoyed it!🙂
As a French person leaving not far from Bordeaux, what you did to open the bottle was at the same time SACRILEGIOUS and UNEXPECTEDLY EXTREMELY HILARIOUS 😂
Same, French here and wine lover and I was just like "this is extremely wrong but extremely cute at the same time, I'm so confused"
Mais ouiiiii mes yeux me sont sortis de la tête ahahah
Same ! I think every French gasped a little at that moment. 🤣
j'ai HURLÉ
On se cotise pour lui acheter un tire bouchon ? 😂
Bernadette: "In portent question..." Zach, Sewstine and Angela: Give good, caring advice Karolina: **Laughs at you** Yup, everyone's on brand.. :D
I love the fact that they have a group chat where they talk about things, you truly do love to see creators supporting other creators
And then Rachel Maksy makes a pun 😂
Your videos always make me smile and pick up my day! Your creativity is inspiring! Keep making videos!
This is the first video I have seen from your channel and I instantly subscribed in the first 5 minutes! Such quality fun yet scientific content :)!
Other than laughing hysterically at the Mrs. Crocombe reference, did anyone else think Bernadette could pass for David Tennant's sister when she put the little sunglasses on?
that is exactly what I thought, too :D :D. Being her pot plant, I would probably shiver
from good omens ..absolutely :)
Nanny Ashtoreth am I right
Gift idea for Bernadette: a corkscrew 😂
Plus a mask and some gloves. Somehow, I doubt these will be her only experiments now she's got the kit.
And a funnel! Excellent video as always Bernadette!
She ended up with plenty in her hair at least
I randomly stumbled upon this video and didn’t know I’d be super interested in something like this, but learning about how much it took to make these basic things was quite intriguing. So thank you. I really enjoy you and your content
I really enjoyed this video! You put in a lot of time and effort and I think the results looked wonderful. Thank you!
All hail the pantheon of costube coming together to relish Bernadette's accidental intoxication 😂 (In all seriousness, though, I'm so sorry that happened, that is not a fun time!!)
“Rectified spirit” sounds like something a Baptist Minister would tell me I need to get from the Lord
Rectified Spirit could easily be some type of consumable from Bloodborne
It's polish XD
LOL
Any minister who tells you that is talking about a different lord
Create in me a rectified spirit oh lord
This was so delightful to watch. ❤ Thank you for taking the time to educate and share.
How fascinating! Thank you for the time, energy, and $ that went into this video! As a cosmetic science educator and cosmetologist, this is beyond interesting to me!
Friend asks "so what type of KZheadr do you like to watch?" Me "I enjoy the type of human who wears and makes their own late Victorian garments, and would do such things as purchase an 1890s shot glass for the purpose of measuring ingredients to replicate era appropriate hair products, for historical trial funsies"
the side of me interested in history: oh, interesting! the scientist part of me, watching you use stuff with barely any ventilation, no safety glasses, no gloves, touching things barehanded and without washing the measuring cup with distilled water between two ingredients which may react together: having a panic attack in the corner... : D
Tbf the victorians probably did the same thing so she's simply being historically accurate
@@AirQuotes oh, absolutely, but the Victorians also made dresses and wallpaper out of arsenic, and hats with mercury (which was more a problem for the hatters than wearers, but still), so safety and historical accuracy do not necessarily go hand in hand, and the experiment is for the end product, not the dangerosity of making it, hence why using modern safety gear like gloves and proper eyewear would not eschew the experiment. And even so, the victorians may have used scales and more than one measuring cup, or none at all if they bought the correct amount for all, or used spoons to not touch any ingredient with their hands, or have worn leather gloves or the like, or have done everything outside (on their roof, in the garden, etc) or in a specialized ventilated room (such as our modern day bathrooms and kitchens, only less mechanized), so there would be no definite way to say that all victorians did it this way. I trust Ms. Banner did the appropriate research on each ingredient, and the end product does not seem dangerous hence why she chose these recepies, but it is always better to lean on the safety side, both to cultivate good habits, and in the case of an unexpected reaction, such as the bubbling shown in this very same video. In her comment she did say that modern day chemists have approved of these recipes as safe and all, so the gas formed must not have been dangerous, but what I have been taught, and what I think must always be taught, is to use the maximum safety and precaution for each and every element of labwork that one does. If one cannot handle safe products with all the proper safety procedures, then one cannot be trusted with actual harmful products. Not only is is better to remember the procedures for when one might need them, but it also ensures that it becomes an automatic response. That way, one doesn't wonder if one should have worn gloves during, or after the handling of the product, but before, and then would have done the research for which material of gloves to use, long before actually reaching for the product. even if said product is salt, and you know full well that you do not need gloves to handle it. so the reason why I cringe isn't that I think she is truly in danger, but because such habits put in one of my lab classes, even if it's just measuring salt, putting it in water, and the heating it up to a certain temperature, would get me kicked out. No questions asked. being physically present in the lab, without my hair tied, my white coat, and safety glasses, even if there are no experiments being done yet, would get me kicked out. It would be like using the wrong stich for a certain seam. It would hold the two pieces of clothing together, and some victorians might have used it, but one can easily tell that the stich is not the best for this particular seam because if wouldn't handle the strain or something. so not wrong, but you kinda want to go "no, we do not do it that way because (...)", but also kind of bracing for a stern word from a superior at the same time. like when you expect to be yelled at when you reach for the cookies between meals even though your parents aren't home and you are a full grown adult who lives alone. It's a bit hard to explain, but I tried my best.
@@mcanta2898 yes! Undergraduate chemistry student here, can definitely confirm this! Not to mention she got accidental ethanol intoxication from this, as well as nearly burned her eyes with the ammonia... Nightmare
@@vhehl698 well that ethanol thing also happened to me when i was cleaning flow cabinets in a ml2 lab hahaah
@@mcanta2898 ✨glorious comment ✨
Thank you so much for this video! It’s also important to show that everything doesn’t always work out!
Can we please take a moment to appreciate the beauty of Bernadettes' hair? I know that it might come off as weird, but how is she so perfect? Like, long hair and nails that look really healthy (please correct me if I'm wrong.) If someone has any advice, I'd really appreciate it.♡ And another important thing that I have to say is, thank you Bernadette for making such beautiful and aesthetically pleasing content. Your videos always brighten up my day, it's easily seeable that you put a lot of work and dedication into making their, and so I wish to give you my warm thanks. I love you!
I had an association of thought while watching this. My grandmother gave me rag curls all the time (so nice nostalgic moment for me). Watching this, I realized, my grandmother must have been taught by her mother. I knew my great grand mother, but only now did I associate her as 'a victorian'. But she wasn't English, she was American Indian, which is why her date of birth, 1875ish, didn't click for me as victorian. Yet she knew all the stuff victorians knew - she could read and had all the ladies magazines, she was totally 'up to date' on the hows and whys. I have always been big on ancestry, and this new thought gives me another layer for my great-granny. Thank you :)
What a lovely connection to have made!
My Mother tried pin curls on me a few times because that's what her mother did with her hair so I'm jealous! My mothers mother was born in 1927 so very thoroughly 40's in a lot of her habits. (My ancestry is very mixed but none of them were in England during that time although some were in the Netherlands and Ireland. My paternal grandmother however, was born in 1914 and her mother was nearly 40 when she had her sona lot of that Victorian and Edwardian sensibility was evident. My great grandmother was around the same age as yours. My grandmother passed when I was a year old but my Dad was brought up very "old-fashioned". His Dad's 4 sisters were all born from 1890-1910 and they too were rather old-fashioned. Some of the phrases he uses or the way he does things are so odd and when I ask why he did that or where that word came from it's usually "It's how my Aunt _____ did it and how I was taught to do it." Or "it's just something my mother used to say..." I have a few family heirlooms from that time including numerous monogrammed silver spoons and glass vanity jar with a brass, screw-on lid and it still holds a pair of my grandmother's gold diamond stud screw back earrings. Bernadette's aesthetic always makes me think of my grandmother's childhood photos and her mother's photos. It's lovely ☺️
@@emilypresleysee I set my phone to record while my grandmother and I looked through the family photo album. It is such a treasure to have. My grandmother passed away last year at 103. I wish I had recorded more of her stories.
I love hearing/reading about others’ family history!! I actually just found a family photo album that my great great grandmother kept that has family photos from her childhood in the 1800s and I wish my nan was able to tell me more about it. A lot of the history died with my great great grandmother unfortunately, and not all the photos are labeled.
@@lizabee484 At least you got the album! Maybe check around for cousins. I found a cousin who's granny was in her 90s, and she recognized about 18 people in a group of 20. I had no idea who most of them were. But now I have a copy of that picture with all their names attached to them. It's priceless!
I am a biologist and worked years in toxicology labs. When you put on the “safety glasses” you made my day, I laughed so hard! 😂 Thank you for that!! ♥️
same here, also a biologist and I lost it at the glasses, it was hilarious!!! also, the poses while measuring stuff are very accurate lmao
This was amazing. Blown away by your patience.
What an excellent documentary! Thanks for all your effort!
"For this recipe, you will need" was a reference I did not expect for some reason and it was brilliant.
It made I laugh. Excellent delivery Ms Banner.
When a video starts with the words “Oh no” and then you put together the Tom foolery of hair dressing…yes!! THEN you cut your hair….I STAN!! As the daughter of a hair stylist (who assisted on creating products - bleach, coloring and perms) I watched with much interest. Also, my mom even made me do the MOST Victorian thing of going with her to do her client’s hair of when they PASSED AWAY!! Yup, I was there with my mom when she did dead people’s hair. Also, in your commercial you stated flavor when I think you meant scent…since you don’t want people to eat the soap tablets?!
No it is just a play on words but please do not eat soap tablets. 🙂
I collect vintage beauty-trade magazines. One of them has an article about the extremely lucrative market for beauty services for corpses in open caskets. It explains the specialized methods used, and that, since you're only doing the front and sides, you get paid in full for only doing 3/4 of a style, plus a bonus for the "distastefulness" of working with corpses.
I work at a candle production shop and, while it started as a joke, we only refer to "scents/fragrances" as "flavors" now 😂
@@OofusTwillip: When dealing with inventory, the different items are referred to as flavors regardless of whether the items are to be consumed.
@@bernadettebanner maybe not the public you expect but the tiepods kids are still around
I am loving your channel! It popped up in my feed and curiosity got me. Mixes my love of Victorian with my background in chemistry and my love of makeup and skin care! This is awesome!
Hello ma'am your house's/workspace's entire aesthetic is a whole goal I absolutely adore the results, tje presenting, it was really entertaining to watch :DDD
Bernadette - "For this recipe you will need: " Mrs. Crocombe would be proud. ☺
I'm so sad this doesn't have more likes!
I was looking for this comment!!!! Yes ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Did y'all catch Mrs.Crocombe on tic toc talking about the little lad who loves berries and crrream that lives in the manner lmao 🤣
Surprised not more people noticed!
This is literally why I came to the comments
I was so scared all your hair was going to be destroyed. "My hair's been drying for seven hours now and it still feels damp." As someone with thick curly hair, I relate to this on a spiritual level.
In winter it may take a full day for my hair to dry, it’s quite annoying. I only wash it once a week so at least there is that.
My hair is not culry, but is thick and plenty… It won't dry the same day. It doesn't matter what I do, it never dries the same day.
@@LisaOuwersloot Not sponsored (I swear, lol) but you might like Curlsmith brand. Vegan (if you like that), cruelty free, ethical sourcing, no sulphates, or silicons. I'm using it on my curly hair and like it quite a lot. Consider looking into their "Moisture" line. They *are* pricy - to me - but they last me at least 3 months, though YMMV depending on your hair.
@@jessicazimmer8910 thank you for the advice, but I use a brand that my mum’s hairdresser (who knows my hair, she did my hair too, when I was a child) had me try and it is lovely. I’ve secretly wondering about not using shampoo and such but it seems like a huge step.
same thats why I cut into a middy and it still takes a long time.
You are sooooooooo brave to put anything in your hair!! Your hair is gorgeous & I’d be so scared of damaging or losing it!!
I find your videos endlessly fascinating and entertaining.
I am 100% going to make a painting of "victorian woman lies on couch whilst texting".
Please post it for all of us to see!
I now have a mighty need to see that
As a chemist, I had a severe case of anxiety watching Bernadette handle chemicals without proper gloves and goggles and lab coat! Also, the coughing from ammonia fumes is totally relatable! The only other things worse than the smell of ammonia is the smell of hot ammonia and when the ammonia fumes dissolve into the moisture layer on your eyeballs and start burning it!
Now we know why smelling salts (ammonia crystals) are so effective at restoring a person to consiousness.
Undergraduate chemist student here, and same! No safety goggles, no lab coat, not even a cloth on the table to protect it... Very scary
Oxidizing agents with bare hands! Concentrated ammonia outside a fume hood! Accidental ethanol intoxication! 🙈 That was way more stressful than being audited by the EPA.
@@lachimiste1 exactly!! I would've failed my lab practical had i worked like that...
@@vhehl698 Also, I'm a professional chemist, and I just wanted to give a fellow chemistry major a digital pat on the back and a way-to-go! for studying chemistry. There were definitely times I wanted to throw my Pchem textbook out the window and drown myself in a base bath, but sticking it out led me to a rewarding career. You've got this! 🧑🔬
I really find your content very soothing. For someone who isn't really into history, you made it so interesting that I might just get hooked into it. Just found your channel last night, and I'm loving it so far.
Your videos are so calming. And your speech is so good and satisfying to listen to. Hearing it, I have nothing to say other than: OMG she is so smart and educated. Thank you so much!!
Let's take a minute to appreciate how much work Bernadette puts into the visual side of her videos. By now they qualify as a crossover between short film and documentary. So beautifully done!
I totally agree. I wonder if she put the documentaries together in categories if it could be submitted to like Cannes film festival. Worth the effort, cause if she doesn't try she will never know!
I love that she went through the trouble to get a measuring cup that measures in drams but didn't have a corkscrew, because that is somehow extremely relatable
This is the first video of yours I have watched, this was delightful! Very well made and calming to watch 🙂 As a side note...girl that is a LOT of hair! Good for you, I would not have the patience to deal with that all the time!
Her cutting her hair was a powerful vibe.