Alexander the Great washed his hair in saffron to keep it shiny and orange.
Alexander liked to keep as hygienic and healthy as possible and even washed his hair in saffron to keep it shiny and strawberry blonde. At the time, saffron was as rare as diamond and more expensive than gold. He may have looked and smelt good but there was one thing Alexander couldn’t change about himself and that was his Heterochromia Iridum, which meant that one of his eyes was blue and one of his eyes was brown.