Are vintage hair brushes good for your hair?
Are vintage hair brushes good for your hair? Using an old-fashioned boar-bristle brush rather than a synthetic bristle hair brush helps to distribute the scalp's natural oils more evenly throughout the strand. What is the oldest hair brush? The earliest U.S. patent for a modern hairbrush was by Hugh Rock in 1854. A brush with elastic wire teeth along with natural bristles, was patented by Samuel Firey in 1870 as U.S. Patent 106,680. What were old hair brushes made of? The one thing that is known is that they were all made from natural materials. Handles were formed from wood,...