Hey, it sells soap. Up until this time, people more or less accepted the normal smells of the body as natural. Madison Avenue saw to it that people were informed about this serious health hazard, and conveniently informed about the latest miracle products to battle it. I'm not sure I WANT my vagina to smell like a daisy. Today, everyone thinks diamonds are incredibly rare gemstones that have been prized above all others for thousands of years.
Hair is dead tissue.
The only place it's alive and growing is at the base, in the follicle. The White House also conned people into forgetting that, up until a couple of years before this, Saddam Hussein was a US ally, who received everything from arms shipments to spy satellite data.