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Red Hair Dye (Acidulated mediately)
An acidulated mediately, and the desired shade may be obsolution of a salt of antimony (a solution of tained by applying more or less of the solutained by applying more or less of the solupotassio-tartrate of antimony or tartar-emetic tion. Should the hands become stained with 1 to 16, acidulated with a little tartaric, citric, it, they can be cleaned with a little dilute hythey can be cleaned with a little dilute hyor acetic acid, may be used), followed by a drochloric acid. This dye is not permanent, weak mordant of neutral hydrosulphuret of but is very easily renewed with a tooth-brush. ammonia (see No. 1203), or the bisulphuret