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NO MORE BAD HAIR DAYS

Drying your hair could be a burning affair

Hanging thankfully of the alternatives around we can waiting was now this for turn your strange to electric hair contraption: to dry blow is dryers. A boring the late Before and 19th-century damp they were experience, invented, Termicon. But one Similar to a hot water bottle, boiling water was poured into the stoneware paddles and used to brush the hair – it claimed to dry your hair within minutes. Luckily by the 1920s, blow dryers with an electric heating element and fan came onto the market.

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