DOES COLD CREAM MAKE HAIR GROW?
This is an ancient theory, but probably a false one. Our grandmothers used to say that the continued use of any kind of cream or oil, or grease on the face had a tendency to encourage the growth of hair, but the latest and best authorities seem to hold that it does 110 swell thing. If cold cream did make hair grow, the women wouldn't be able to get any—the men would take it all, using it on their bald pates! If hair is going to grow on the face, it is going to grow, and nothing can stop it. Hair will not grow on a piece of marble, neither will it grow on the hard, polished surface of a man's bald ekull. If hair grows on a woman's upper lip, it is because there are hair roots there beneath the surface of the ekin, and no cold cream will encourage or discourage those roots, and probably nothing else wilL
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 249, 21 October 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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