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Hair Care and Cosmetics

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Hair care, color, and style play an important role in people’s physical appearance and self-perception. Hair defines an individual’s gender, age, sexual attitude, and social status. There are no significant differences in the number of hair follicles between men and women, or between different races. Differences in the appearance of hair are due to the type of hair produced by a follicle and to the type of hair care and cosmetics practiced by the individual.

Ah, such are the lures of the toilet

that none will for long hold aloof from them.

Cosmetics are not going to be a mere

prosaic remedy for age and plainess

but all ladies and all young girls

will come to love them.

Max Beerbohm, A Defence of Cosmetics (1894)

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Trüeb, R.M. (2013). Hair Care and Cosmetics. In: Female Alopecia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35503-5_6

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