Chapter 160 – How to Shampoo the Hair

160.1) A woman must thoroughly wash her entire body with warm water on the seventh day of purification and thoroughly cleanse her hair and disentangle it.

160.2) Do not cleanse hair with ingredients that tend to tangle it.

160.3) If a bath does not adjoin the ritual pool, she should comb her hair in the house, and after the immersion, comb it again there.

160.4) The cleansing should be done in the daytime.

160.5) If the cleansing ritual falls on a Sabbath-eve, she should be done in the daytime so as not to violate the Sabbath

160.6) Consult a Rabbi about communities where it is customary to take the ritual bath of immersion on the close of the Sabbath or a festival.

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