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Article: Calif. smog law propels hair spray competition
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 19, 1992
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LOS ANGELES Cindy Scheerschmidt is engaged in a top-secret effort
to preserve the coiffure as we know it.
In a squat industrial building this month, she conducted Test
No. 5811 on a human volunteer. Scheerschmidt parted her subject's
curly red tresses down the middle. From two coded black containers,
she applied a different coating to each side.
Then she ran her fingers expertly through the hair.
"It's tacky," she said of the portion on the left. She pushed
her nose close to the scalp. "Let me smell it."
Here in the "evaluation center," a 15-chair beauty salon at
Redken Laboratories Inc., hair spray is getting a makeover - after a
hard shove from state regulators fighting to ...