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Oct 29, 2009 · Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919), known as the first female self-made millionaire in America, made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women.
Madame C.J. Walker's philosophy of “hair culture” grew to high demand among African Americans. This tin for her “Wonderful Hair Grower” was just one product of her hair care line.
According to her biography, On Her Own: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, Walker received the formula for her own hair grower through a dream. Other hair products included her “Glossine and Pressing Oil,” and the “Wonderful Hair Grower.”
Madam C.J. Walker, the first black millionairess in America, invented the world's first hair-straightening formula.
Jan 19, 2021 · Around 1903, Walker began to use Turnbo's products like the Great Wonderful Hair Grower. Walker's hair problems apparently benefited from this care and she ended up becoming a Poro sales...
Around 1904, Walker—still known as Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Davis (after marriages to Moses McWilliams and John Davis) became a sales agent for Annie Malone, an African-American businesswoman, who founded a company in 1900 manufacturing a "Wonderful Hair Grower."
Mar 21, 2019 · On the lid of the two-ounce can of Madam C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, her top-selling product, appears an African-American woman with thick, flowing hair. That woman was Walker...
