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Product Recall: Nair

Forever35

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Rebecca's Book Review

The author traces the contemporary obsession with hair removal, particularly among white women to the late 19th century. It wasn't until the 1920s that large numbers of women really began routinely removing hair below the neck. In ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, there's like evidence that people use seashells, beeswax and all kinds of ways to remove hair because they saw it as a way to keep their body clean.

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