7 'Cures' For Baldness You Won't Believe

6. The Scottish Elixir

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In Kerry Segrave's Baldness: A Social History - a guide to societal responses to denuded noggins - the cultural historian outlines a Scottish dedoction from the 18th century believed to halt male pattern baldness, and it doesn't involve a deep fryer or sheep's pluck.

It's simply a case of burning a load of things - chiefly, frogs, bees, and goats' dung - rubbing the ashes into the exposed areas, and then shampooing afterwards with dog's urine. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Is this a magical cure-all for fading follicles, or the recipe for Heston Blumenthal's latest molecular-gastronomy monstrosity? Well, it's neither, but it is a good excuse to set fire to some frogs.

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