In the 1661 book Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature, Johann Jacob Wecker explains how to make hair white as silver.
To make your Hair as white as silver
Take river water twenty five pound, roots and leaves of Centory three ounces, boyl them together untill a third part be consumed; then when they have flood fifteen dayes in the Sun, adde Gum Arabick, Dragant, Alum, of each two ounces; Venice Sope, Tartar of White wine, of each one pound : mingle them, and boyl them so long, untill they be a water, which the Italians commonly call Blonde; that is, yellow Venetian: And when you will use it, in the morning wet your hair well with it, and wrap them in a linen cloath; then in the evening wash your hair in Lee wherein the Herb called Vitriola is boyled, and dry them at the sunne or the fire; which when you have done twice or thrice a week, your hair will be white, clear, and silver coloured.
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