Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of cosmetics (makeup) being used in Egypt dating back to the fourth millennium BC. They found ancient artifacts of eye makeup and objects used for the application of scented unguents.
Bobby Pins
Bobby pins were first introduced to America in 1916.
Born Max Faktor in Lodz, Poland during the 1870s, Max Factor became the father of modern make-up. With 10 children, the Factor parents could not afford formal education for their children, so at the age of eight Max was placed in apprenticeship to a dentist-pharmacist. Years of mixing potions instilled in him a fascination with the human form. Factor opened his own shop in a suburb of Moscow, selling hand-made rouges, creams, fragrances, and wigs. A traveling theatrical troupe wore Factor’s make-up while performing for Russian nobility, and the door to fame and fortune opened wide. The Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetic expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera.
In 1904, Factor and his family came to America. He had a fresh start in St. Louis at the 1904 World’s Fair, selling his rouges and creams, and operating under the name given to him at Ellis Island, Max Factor. But he had stars in his eyes. Factor envisioned movie actors and actresses needing make-up and wigs. He moved his family to Los Angeles in 1908. In 1914, Factor created a make-up specifically for movie-actors that, unlike theatrical make-up, would not crack or cake. Soon movie stars were filing through Max Factor’s make-up studio, eager to sample the "flexible greasepaint" while producers sought Factor’s human hair wigs. He allowed the wigs to be rented to the producers of old westerns on the condition that his sons were given parts as extras. The boys would keep an eye on the expensive wigs. Max Factor introduced cosmetics to the public in the 1920s, insisting that every girl could look like a movie star by using Max Factor® make-up.
Deodorants
The original formulation for
Mum deodorant was invented in 1888, by an unknown inventor from Philadelphia. Generally
recognized as being the first ever product to prevent odor, the inventor promptly
trademarked his invention and distributed it through his nurse under the name of
"Mum." In the late 1940s Helen Barnett Diserens joined the Mum production team.
A suggestion by a colleague inspired Helen to develop an underarm deodorant based on the
same principle as a newfangled invention called the 'ball point' pen. This new type of
deodorant applicator was tested in the USA in 1952, and marketed under the name of Ban
Roll-On. The first anti-perspirant aerosol deodorant was launched in 1965.
Hair Brushes
Brushes were used as early
as 2,500,000 years ago in the cave paintings of Altamira in Spain and Périgord in
France. The brushes were used to apply pigment to the cave walls. Brushes were later
adapted and used for hair grooming.
Hair Spray
The concept of an aerosol
originated as early as 1790, when self pressurized carbonated beverages were introduced in
France. In 1837, an early soda siphon incorporating a valve was invented by a man called
Perpigna. In 1899, inventors Helbling and Pertsch patented aerosols pressurized using
methyl and ethyl chloride as propellants. On November 23rd, 1927, Erik Rotheim of Norway
patented the first aerosol can and valve that could hold and dispense products and
propellant systems. This was the forerunner of the modern aerosol can and valve. During
World War II the US government funded research into a portable way for service men to
spray malaria carrying bugs, and the modern aerosol can was created. Two Department of
Agriculture researchers, Lyle David Goodhue and W. N. Sullivan, developed a small aerosol
can pressurized by a liquefied gas (a fluorocarbon) in 1943. It was their design that made
products like hair spray possible, along with the work of one other inventor named Robert
H. Abplanal. In 1953 Abplanal invented a crimp-on valve "for dispensing gases under
pressure." This put the manufacture of aerosol spray can products into high gear as
Abplanal had created the first clog-free valve for spray cans. Abplanal also invented the
"Aquasol" or "pump spray" which uses water-soluble hydrocarbons as
propellants. Subsequently it was realized that the fluorocarbons in aerosol cans damaged
the ozone layer.
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