Like so many other things that began in medicine, the use of red and blue light was picked up by Beauty Culture and incorporated into its routines.
Although 1770 is given as the foundation date for the House of Yardley, the firm was established by Samuel Cleaver and it would be a new century before a Yardley owned the business.
Although there are numerous methods for temporarily getting rid of excess hair but before X-rays the only recognized procedure for permanently removing hair was electrolysis.
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