Crimean Tatar women nourished their hair with special masks

Nowadays, taking care of women’s hair implies hundreds of bottles of cosmetics. Crimean Tatars have always taken care of their hair. In the old days, people nourished their hair with masks: yoghurt, egg and honey and on the basis of medicinal plants, writes ethnographer Ulvie Ablaeva in her monograph «Hats, fezzes, shawls». This made the hair of Crimean Tatars surprisingly thick.