Hair Care
(MONEY Magazine) – $94.46 Annual amount the average American household spends on hair-care products $4.95 billion Price Procter & Gamble paid Bristol-Myers Squibb for hair-products subsidiary Clairol in November $6.19 Price of a 32-ounce bottle of Lucky Kentucky, a shampoo created for Thoroughbred horses and now used by humans $150 Amount paid for 22 inches of dark-brown hair at Hairwork.com, a hair-exchange site, according to an online testimonial $725 Price of the Equalizer, a human-hair toupee, at WorldOfWigs.com $300 Cost of a haircut by Cristophe at his eponymous Beverly Hills salon $6.29 Price of a one-ounce application of Grecian5, used to darken gray hair on men. In a recent survey commissioned by Combe--maker of Grecian5--75% of respondents said looking younger gives men an advantage in the job market. --AMY WILSON Sources: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Procter & Gamble, Duane Reade, Hairwork.com, WorldOfWigs.com, Cristophe Salon. |
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