Useful Hair Grease

hair grease
(from The Economical Housekeeper, John Henry Walsh, 1857)

Ingredients:

1/2 lb. lard​

6 oz. olive oil​

2 drachms of essence of lemon, oil of lavender, or any other perfume​

Instructions:

1065 Melt half a pound of lard and six ounces of olive oil in a jar placed in hot water; when nearly cool add about two drachms of essence of lemon, oil of lavender, or any other perfume, and then pour it into glass bottles or earthen pots.​

another kind.
(from The Economical Housekeeper, John Henry Walsh, 1857)

Ingredients:

1 part fresh beef-marrow​

1 part neat's-foot, or trotter oil​

essence of lemon, oil of lavender, or any other perfume​

Instructions:

Mix fresh beef-marrow and carefully-prepared neat's-foot or trotter oil in equal proportions, melt in a water-bath and decant, leaving the dregs behind; after which, when nearly cool, the scent is to be added as above, and the whole stirred till quite set.​

 

[Pete Longstreet]

Interesting... these are probably better for the hair than all the chemicals they use today in hair gel. I've never looked... but I wonder if there is a lemon scented hairgel...