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Women bought poison to remove unwanted hair. 🧴
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Dark HistorySep 21, 2026

Women bought poison to remove unwanted hair. 🧴

Women bought poison to remove unwanted hair. 🧴 . . . In the early 1930s, Koremlu depilatory cream promised painless hair removal across the United States. Its active ingredient was thallium acetate, a toxic compound that could cause numbness, blindness and paralysis. More than 100 users reportedly suffered poisoningβ€”the product removed hair by attacking the body itself.

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James Harvey Young, 1961, 'The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation'

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