Hair care and furthermore healthy hair. Hair care Hair care is an overall term for hygiene and cosmetology involving the hair which grows from the human scalp, and to a lesser extent facial, pubic and other body hair. Hair care routines differ according to an individual's culture and the physical characteristics of one's hair. Hair may be colored, trimmed, shaved, plucked or otherwise removed with treatments such as waxing, sugaring and threading. Hair care services are offered in salons, barbershops and day spas, and products are available commercially for home use. Laser hair removal and electrolysis are also available, though these are
History of removal of leg and underarm hair in the United States gown with her arm up and the caption "Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair." Advertisers were careful to use wording they felt would be more palatable to their audience, for example "smoothing" instead of "shaving" and "limbs" instead of "legs". The educational campaign on the benefits of and methods of hair removal persisted into the ads of the early 1920s and even continue today. Underarm hair in these ads was called "objectionable", "unwelcome", "embarrassing", "unsightly" and "unclean"; and its removal indicated a person who had "charm" and "the last touch of ‘feminine