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AUTUMN BEGINS TOMORROW AFTERNOON

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1940s personal care magazine ad.

In 1840, the J.B. Williams Company in Glastonbury,
Connecticut
, manufactured soap under the name
Ivorine. Williams decided to focus on its shaving
soap and sold Ivorine to Procter & Gamble, which
later developed Ivory.


1800s

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POPULAR TONIC KEPT YOUR HAIR IN TRIM

VINTAGE 1950'S WILDROOT Cream Oil Hair Dressing Bottle Box - $37.99 |  PicClick

Fearless Fosdick Wildroot Cream-Oil Sign This lot


The company first started selling Wildroot Hair Tonic in 1911,
In the 1920s, the tonic was primarily marketed to women, with advertisements warning that
bobbed hair and tight hats would
cause baldness, unless they used the Wildroot product.

Wildroot started marketing the product to men in the 1930s,
In 1937, the company was scolded by the
Federal Trade
Commission
for claiming that Wildroot Hair Tonic keeps
the scalp "healthy", "penetrates" the sebaceous glands,
cleans up dandruff "completely", and that the results were "guaranteed".    

Wildroot Cream-Oil was first sold in 1943, In the 1950s, it was
associated with the
greaser subculture, teenage boys who
slicked their hair down into a
ducktail style.]

A "Wildroot Hair Groom" is still being marketed today by the
Oakhurst Company.  

MaineCourse: Wild Root Cream Oil


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GRAY HAIR DOES MAKE A PERSON LOOK OLD!

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ROLLING OUT A POPULAR HOT ITEM AGAIN

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Mr. George Whipple (above) is a fictional supermarket manager
featured in television commercials, radio, and print ad’s that
ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for
Charmin toilet paper.

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