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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 popular soap made from pot ash, rain water, and lard ) straighten the hair. many other forms of hair "coiffing" ( term used in the 20's) were used. basically mix rain water (acid rain), petroleum jelly ( or lard/ pig fat), pot ash ( ashes from wood ), and an egg.

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