Hair iron

The curling iron or furnace tongs (sometimes also called cautery, toupee or wig iron iron) is a tool to undulation of the human major hair. You will no longer apply in the hairdressing technique.

History

The curling iron is a further development of the principle of Frisiermethode with the calamistrum. 1872 curling iron from the French hairdresser Marcel Grateau was designed to put him thereat in his hometown Lagnicourt a monument in England and was called a curling iron by his first name ( Marcel Curling Iron). 1906 could be Simon Monroe patented a device with 7 metal teeth and in 1909 Isaac K. Shero announced a branding iron with two flat metal surfaces for a patent. The curling iron technique was always dependent fashion, was applied to both of wig -makers, barbers, as well as in private households. The curls manufacture this instrument endured until after the Second World War, before she found the replacement in the electrically operated curler and curlers finally accepted also put the private hairstyling.

Principle

The curling iron works on the principle of a pair of scissors, however, is not so cut but merely pinched. Instead of cutting surfaces two round about 20 cm long tubes are attached. Depending on the desired size of the diameter of the tubes locks ranges from 1 to 3 cm. The curling iron was heated on the stove or over the fire. Then we stuck the tip of a strand of hair between the two tubes, and thus turned the hair on. In this way, processed as desired more or all strands of hair. However you Came the scalp with the hot iron too close, there was a danger of combustion. The Oekonomische Encyclopedia of Johann Georg Krünitz writes:

With the curling iron curly hair usually keep until the next wash. In this Krünitzlexikon Ondulationsart is warned in the words of too frequent use: