Charles Nessler’s Permanent Waves

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Charles Nessler is usually credited with inventing the permanent wave in the early 1900s. And he made a huge fortune from it, while also bolstering a huge beauty industry.

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