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Hair-care routines at home — from hot combs and Ultra Sheen to Afro Sheen and the natural

CTL-E-1298 · Practice · other · 1950–1980

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Everyday domestic beauty labor: hot-comb pressing and relaxers in the 1950s–60s; the Afro Sheen era of natural hair in the 1970s; an Afro Sheen can on the bathroom counter as a marker of Black domestic life. Captures generational shift in hair practice.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-034; source research type(s): practice.

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