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Madam Walker's five original products were Vegetable Shampoo, Wonderful Hair Grower, Temple Salve, Tetter Salve and Glossine.Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker and www.madamcjwalker.comMadam C. J. Walker's original five products were "Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower," "Tetter Salve," "Vegetable Shampoo," "Glossine" and "Temple Salve." She created a system of "beauty culture" to promote clean and healthy hair and scalps during the early 20th century at a time when most Americans lived in homes without indoor plumbing, electricity and central heating. Thousands of African American women learned to become "scalp specialists" by taking mail order courses and attending Walker Beauty Schools in New York, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Kansas City, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.Source:www.madamcjwalker.com and On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker (Scribner 2001) by A'Lelia Bundles.
Madam C. J. Walker, who was born Sarah Breedlove, adopted the title "Madam" after marrying her third husband, Charles Joseph Walker. There are several reasons for this. 1) Many businesswomen during the late 1800s and early 1900s adopted the title to show they were in business at a time when professional and business opportunities were very limited for women. Women who were seamstresses, caterers, opera singers, actresses, boarding house proprietors -- and yes, some women who ran bordellos -- used the title. But that latter kind of illegal business, of course, had nothing to do with Madam Walker's hair care business. 2) American women who were pioneers in the cosmetics and hair care industry like Madam Walker, Helena Rubinstein, and Elizabeth Arden used the title as a way to identify with the French title "Madame" (the word for "Mrs.) and with Paris, which then was the center of fashion and glamour. 3) In Madam Walker's case, she used her husband's initials to prevent people from calling her by her first name and disrespecting her at a time when many black women were called derogatory names and not addressed as "Miss" or "Mrs" by some whites who wanted to prevent them from succeeding.
Madam Walker developed a system and regimen of hygiene and conditioning that cleansed her scalp and healed the scalp disease that was so rampant during an era when most Americans did not have indoor plumbing and electricity. Her first products were a vegetable shampoo and an ointment that contained sulfur, a medicinal agent that healed the sores on her scalp. She called it Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower. It really didn't "grow" hair, but once her scalp was healthier her hair had a better environment in which to grow. Today such ingredients are considered too heavy by many people, but they were a big improvement on what was available to most women in the early 1900s. Just as cars have improved in the last century, so have hair care products and cosmetics.
Madam C.J. Walker, aka Sarah Breedlove, was married 3 times.First at age 14 to Moses McWilliams, who was lynched [See clarification below] when Sarah was 20. She then married John Davis on August 11, 1894 and divorced him sometime in 1903. Finally she married newspaper man Charles Joseph Walker in January of 1906 and divorced him in 1910.Second response from a different source: There is no evidence that Moses McWilliams was lynched, though some sources have cited this. Walker's biographer, A'Lelia Bundles, explains how this myth may have developed in her book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. Walker was very involved in the NAACP's anti-lynching movement and visited the White House to petition President Woodrow Wilson to support legislation that would have made lynching a federal crime. Walker also made many speeches about lynching, but never made reference to losing a family member to racial violence. Had this story about her first husband been true, it is likely she would have used it as an example.Madam Walker married Charles Joseph Walker in Denver. She did not divorce him until 1912 in Indianapolis.
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Madam C. J. Walker, whose birth name was Sarah Breedlove, was an orphan by the time she was seven because her parents, Owen and Minerva Breedlove had died. Her mother died first. Her father remarried the next year but soon died. There are no existing death certificates so the cause of death is unknown. It is unlikely that they died of yellow fever as some websites claim. Cholera is more likely but the cause really is unknown. Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
Madam Walker's five original products were Vegetable Shampoo, Wonderful Hair Grower, Temple Salve, Tetter Salve and Glossine.Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker and www.madamcjwalker.comMadam C. J. Walker's original five products were "Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower," "Tetter Salve," "Vegetable Shampoo," "Glossine" and "Temple Salve." She created a system of "beauty culture" to promote clean and healthy hair and scalps during the early 20th century at a time when most Americans lived in homes without indoor plumbing, electricity and central heating. Thousands of African American women learned to become "scalp specialists" by taking mail order courses and attending Walker Beauty Schools in New York, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Kansas City, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.Source:www.madamcjwalker.com and On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker (Scribner 2001) by A'Lelia Bundles.
Madam C. J. Walker, who was born Sarah Breedlove, adopted the title "Madam" after marrying her third husband, Charles Joseph Walker. There are several reasons for this. 1) Many businesswomen during the late 1800s and early 1900s adopted the title to show they were in business at a time when professional and business opportunities were very limited for women. Women who were seamstresses, caterers, opera singers, actresses, boarding house proprietors -- and yes, some women who ran bordellos -- used the title. But that latter kind of illegal business, of course, had nothing to do with Madam Walker's hair care business. 2) American women who were pioneers in the cosmetics and hair care industry like Madam Walker, Helena Rubinstein, and Elizabeth Arden used the title as a way to identify with the French title "Madame" (the word for "Mrs.) and with Paris, which then was the center of fashion and glamour. 3) In Madam Walker's case, she used her husband's initials to prevent people from calling her by her first name and disrespecting her at a time when many black women were called derogatory names and not addressed as "Miss" or "Mrs" by some whites who wanted to prevent them from succeeding.
Answer #2: No, Madam C. J. Walker did not make the flat iron, nor did she invent or manufacture the straightening comb. Marcel Grateau, a Frenchman, is credited with developing some of the first widely distributed metal hair care implements in the 1870s when he invented the Marcel Wave. Hot combs were sold in Bloomingdales and Sears catalogues in the 1890s when Madam Walker still was a washerwoman named Sarah Breedlove. Several different people designed and created hot combs and straightening combs in the late 19th century and early 20th century, but Madam Walker was not one of them. Answer #1: Yes, in her life she created the straight iron along with ointments and soaps.