What is hair oiling and how can this beauty ritual give you healthy tresses?

Hair oiling can help achieve strong, shiny, perfectly moisturized hair. Photo: AFP

Like fashion, the beauty world is an eternal process of renewal, by which each generation rediscovers the rituals of the past.

This has been seen in recent years with the hype surrounding rice cooking water – an ingredient known and used for centuries in Asia – not to mention the age-old powers of cold, or the traditional Japanese art of Kobido.