Whereas Turnbo took her product’s name from an African word, Madame C.J. claimed ... hair-straightening styling tool in their catalogs in the 1880s. But Walker did improve the hot comb with ...

“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the ...

When it comes to women who changed the haircare industry, Madam C.J. Walker is somewhere ... I’ve long known about Walker because she popularized the use of the hot comb — a tool that is ...

hair-care maven Madam C.J. Walker. Bundles wanted to wear her mane in a big afro, yet everywhere she turned people reminded her that she was a descendant of the woman who invented the hot comb.

More than a century after her “secret formula” turned Madam C.J. Walker ... "Hair straightening was a part of the overall system if women wanted to straighten their hair." Walker opened ...

What Sarah Breedlove, a.k.a. Madam C.J. Walker, did was to invent (or possibly steal) a sulfur-based hair-straightening formula for black women and also a steel hot-comb to be used in conjunction ...

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But on the inside, I had the opportunity to go beyond what the internet and some history books tell us about Madam C.J. Walker when ... women in the 60’s stop straightening their hair and ...

When adapting the story of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first Black female ... “And these looks were achieved without the appliances [namely straightening irons or blow dryers] and products ...