1910 Gillette advertisement ... Likewise, razors were not marketed to women for facial hair removal. Instead, women with facial hair were offered products to bleach, wax, or dissolve facial hair. As ...

At the ripe age of 11, I decided to use the old, crusty, hair removal cream that had sat abandoned in my mum's cabinet since before I was born. Unsurprisingly, it severely burned, itched and ...