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The History of Homemade Depilatories

Homemade depilatories were a thing in the early 20th century. The same chemicals you could use for ladies to take the hair off your upper lip could also be used for like tanners who were preparing hides. There was one company that basically sounded like almost like franchised and women would go and get X-rays to have hair removed.

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