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 ...

WHEN aspiring entrepreneurs asked Madam C.J. Walker how she ... sisters to be attractive. While Walker and her hair culturists popularized the use of the metal straightening comb, she never ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Madam C.J. Walker became the first black ... She said there’s a lot of misconceptions. Madam Walker did not invent the hot comb so we have to get rid of that myth.” ...

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 ...

The woman credited with creating the hot comb was born Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker but donned her trademark Madame C.J. moniker. In all actuality she did not invent the hair-straightening ...

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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