00:00Remember the days when you would sit between your mother's legs while she oiled your scalp?
00:07That black hair tradition carries centuries of history with it.
00:10Without the traditional concoctions and herbal regiments from the motherland,
00:14slaves were forced to reinvent new treatments that not only moisturized their wool-like strands,
00:19but also protected their scalps from fleas and other parasites.
00:22This included rubbing anything from bacon grease to petroleum jelly into their scalps.
00:27At the turn of the 20th century, Madam C.J. Walker was credited with inventing a more modern version of hair grease.
00:33She called this pomade, wonderful hair grower.
00:36It was a scalp-healing formula that came to her in a dream.
00:39Her work as America's first self-made millionaire made it possible for hair grease to evolve and grow as its own beauty category.
00:46From the debut of Murphy's Hair Pomade in 1925, to Blue Magic in 1968,
00:52to the modern-day spinoffs of our favorite moisturizing brands,
00:55hair grease has stood the test of time as an iconic essential within the black community.
01:00And that's the hair story.
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