Women used henna to dye their hair at this time.
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ok don't listen to him women in ww1 did not use henna to dye their hair they used gunpowder from the ammunition factories where they worked at the time because all the men who would normally fill the jobs were away fighting
They used beetroot juice or annaseed for lipstick Tea bags for fake tan Lemon juice for blonde hair dye Vinegar for brown hair dye.
Not unless they wanted to die of any of a wide assortment of maladies including liver malfunction and possibly cancer. TNT (TriNitroToluene) is a highly toxic chemical compound that can be absorbed through the skin, so even though it was used early on as a yellow dye, it should not have been used to dye hair. Women who handled TNT in munitions factories during WWI were sometimes called "canary girls" because their skin would turn yellow through assimilation of the material into their skin. It is theoretically possible that prolonged exposure to trinitrotoluene through the skin could even make a person's hair begin to change color as well, as happens when people who are exposed to copper for prolonged periods will sometimes notice their hair beginning to turn green. So, while it is possible that someone decided to try using this material for making their hair blonde, or even that someone's hair turned yellowish from handling the material, it is not likely that it was ever a common practice to use this stuff as a hair dye.
the interesting way of dying their hair that i think is using gunpowder they had stolen from the ammunition factories
He invented many things for example the 'Spinning Jenny'!
possibly because the most common dye at the time was woad, which is blue. a little woad goes a long way, a tiny amount rubbed on with animal fat will cover a surprizingly large area of skin