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Beauty By Numbers.
Beauty By Numbers
Washing our hair is a date-ditching excuse for some, an exercise in good hygiene for many, and on the small South Asian island of Gaungse Kyun (also known as Shampoo Island), a royal ceremony. We dish ?the dirt on lathering up ?(or just claiming we have to). -PATRICIA TORTOLANI
1908: Year in which ?John Breck introduced the first liquid shampoo ?in the United States.
14: Number of ingredients that it contained.
24: Average number of ingredients listed on shampoo bottles today.
6: Number of Breck Girls to go on to fame (Kim Basinger, Brooke Shields, Christie Brinkley, Cheryl ?Tiegs, Jaclyn Smith, Cybill Shepard).
1958: Year in which Mitzi Gaynor sang "I'm Gonna Wash That ?Man Right Out of My Hair" in the film version of South Pacific.
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