Who Invented Relaxers For Black Hair. According to literature hair relaxer can be traced back to a black american man named garrett augustus morgan in the 1900s. However it was another successful black inventor and entrepreneur that created the hair product that would go on to change the way black women cared for their hair for decades.
There is set date when the relaxer was invented because post civil war black discovered washing their hair with lye soap a. Actually he and a woman named annie malone both invented relaxers madam c j walker some of us might turn up our noses at some of of walker s ingredients these days petrolatum beeswax copper sulfate precipitated sulfur coconut oil and violet extract. Over a century ago the first chemical relaxer was created patented and put on the market for women of color with kinky curly hair.
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According to literature hair relaxer can be traced back to a black american man named garrett augustus morgan in the 1900s. Dark and lovely packaged and sold the first commercial relaxer. There is set date when the relaxer was invented because post civil war black discovered washing their hair with lye soap a. According to literature hair relaxer can be traced back to a black american man named garrett augustus morgan in the 1900s.