Original hair goo

[Matt Deckard]

What was used back in the golden era to hold all those finger waves in waves?

Does anybody still use those products?

I'm talking 20's 30's 40's.

 

[Mycroft]

Promanade, made with bear grease, many times. I think today American Crew makes modern Promanade that is no-bear.

"Hair care also involves technology to reshape hair into specific styles. A number of nineteenth-and twentieth-century inventions were designed to make hair styling easier, more effective, longer lasting, and more natural looking. For instance, in 1866, Hiram Maxim invented the first curling iron. Four years later, two Frenchmen, Maurice Lentheric and Marcel Grateau, used hot-air drying and heated curling tongs to make deep, long-lasting Marcel waves. Twenty years later, Alexandre F. Godefroy, a French hairdresser, invented the hair dryer, composed of a bonnet attached to a flexible chimney that extended to a gas stove.

In 1905, Sarah Breedlove Walker created a cosmetic industry in Indianapolis, Indiana, and became the first African-American female millionaire in America by inventing a method for straightening hair, using an emollient cream and hot combs. In 1906, Charles L. Nessler, a German hairdresser working in London, applied a borax paste and curled hair with an iron to produce the first permanent waves. This costly process took twelve hours. Eight years later, Eugene Sutter adapted the method by creating a dryer containing twenty heaters to do the job of waving more efficiently. Sutter was followed by Gaston Boudou, who modified Sutter's dryer and invented an automatic roller. By 1920, Rambaud, a Paris beautician, had perfected a system of curling and drying permed hair for softer, looser curls by using an electric hot-air dryer, an innovation of the period made by the Racine Universal Motor Company of Racine, Wisconsin. Products have been made to style hair and improve grooming as well.

One of the most significant breakthroughs came in 1945, when French chemist Eugene Schueller of L'Or?ɬ©al laboratories combined the action of thioglycolic acid with hydrogen peroxide to produce the first cold permanent wave, which was cheaper and faster than the earlier hot processes. By relaxing the bonds in hair protein, the process changed the configuration of the hair structure and reset it in curled form by means of oxidation. Cosmetologists learned how to control the amount of curl by varying the diameter of rods used for rolling. In related developments, Rene Lelievre and Roger Lemoine invented an electric curling iron in 1959 and the next year a Danish inventor, Aren Bybjerg Pederson, created thermal hair rollers."

Source: http://www.bookrags.com/sciences/sciencehistory/hair-care-woi.html

 

[Lauren]

Setting lotion, as far as I've read. Check out this thread.