USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Madam C.J. Walker was a U.S. entrepreneur who built a highly successful hair-care business in the early 1900s. She founded the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company in 1906 with the Wonderful Hair Grower, a coconut-oil-and-sulfur formula to treat Black women’s scalps and hair.

Detailed explanation-2: -The brand’s breakthrough product, Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, brought Walker across the country, knocking on the doors of consumers, and eventually helped build the empire that made her the first female self-made millionaire in American history.

Detailed explanation-3: -But that doesn’t mean that anyone hoping to purchase Walker’s remedies is out of luck. In recent years, her haircare legacy has been continued with Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Culture (MCJW for short), a line of hair products manufactured by Sundial Brands exclusively for Sephora.

Detailed explanation-4: -Walker was inspired to create haircare products for Black women after a scalp disorder caused her to lose much of her own hair. She came up with a treatment that would completely change the Black hair care industry.