Hair Fertilizer

Les Hoten's miracle cure for baldness: mix together chicken manure, fine sand, and potash, and rub it all on your head. It's guaranteed to work!

Sources: The Lodi News-Sentinel - Nov 27, 1967; and The Daily Courier - Sep 28, 1967.

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Posted By: Alex - Thu May 07, 2015
Category: Hair Styling | 1960s

Comments

Back in the Midwest, when I was a sprout, we told city folk about a similar cure but used genuine, corn fed cow manure; not some chicken-sh1t second rate stuff.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/07/15 at 09:17 AM

My father tells people he isn't losing his hair, his brain is growing and forcing it off his scalp.

Now I get to tell people the same!

Posted by KDP on 05/07/15 at 12:41 PM

Ah lavender scented chicken shit, that's MUCH better. I hate to say it, but Mr. Horten is full of hair fertilizer.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/07/15 at 04:12 PM

Shit head.

Posted by Harvey on 05/07/15 at 09:58 PM

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