Brilliantine
Brillantine is a liquid oil-based hair care product. It usually consists only of perfumed mineral oil , gives the hair shine, soothes dry scalp and enables a naturally lying hairstyle. It used to be used for beard grooming too.
In Victorian England, macassar oil made from coconut or palm oil with ylang-ylang , as a forerunner of brilliantine and pomade , was very popular with men and women in better society. The Brillantine was presented by the French perfumer Pinaud at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 .
Since hair care products were hardly known at the end of the 19th century, the newly invented Brillantine was seen as a panacea. Brillantine stood for shiny, healthy hair and was even touted as promoting hair growth and extending life. Brillantine had its peak, parallel to pomade, in the 1920s to 1950s. It didn't weigh the hair down as much as pomade and was also very economical. According to an advertisement for Vaseline Hair Tonic from the 1940s, only "5 drops on the comb" were enough for a more neat hairstyle.
In England in the 1920s, a hybrid of brilliantine and pomade was created - the Brylcreem , which is still available today . This creamy Brillantine offered better dosing and more practical storage than the classic Brillantine. In the USA, Brillantine was slowly replaced by oil-free hair lotions from the 1940s. Today only a few classic brilliant-cut diamonds are available.
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