Shampooing: steam bath with head massage (origin of shampoo)
Shampooing: baño de vapor con masaje de cabeza (origen del champú)
- Date
- 1814 · confidence medium
- Place
- Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Sake Dean Mahomed
- Field
- Tools
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Sake Dean Mahomed opened steam baths in Brighton with Indian-style massage (chāmpo) and oils. His practice is the source of the word and use of 'shampoo' in English, before the liquid product existed.
Shampoo as a product for washing hair is later (powdered and liquid soaps in the early 20th century); here the milestone is the origin of the term's use, with massage as an Indian practice.
What it led to
- the word 'shampoo' in English and European languages
- medicinal steam baths fashionable in Regency England
- soap-based and later synthetic shampoos in the 20th century