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Beauty salons once burned facial hair away with X-rays. 🩻
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Dark HistorySep 19, 2026

Beauty salons once burned facial hair away with X-rays. 🩻

Beauty salons once burned facial hair away with X-rays. 🩻 . . . Beginning in the 1920s, Tricho Institute clients received repeated radiation treatments over multiple sessions. The procedure promised smooth skin without shaving, but women later developed burns, scarring and cancers. A machine sold as modern beauty care was delivering cumulative radiation to their faces.

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Smithsonian Magazine, 2015, 'When X-Rays Were All the Rage, a Trip to the Beauty Salon Could Be Fatal'

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