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Dorothy Gray Salon Cold Cream
| Posted on April 26, 2010 at 2:59 PM |
Dorothy Gray's Salon Cold Cream advertisement, early 1950s. From the music in the beginning, it sounded like it was from I Love Lucy. I think Dorothy Gray was one of their early sponsors, hence the commercial.
Dorothy Gray Salon Cold Cream, her face is actually covered in radioactive dirt so that it would read on the Geiger counter, pay attention to the commercial. Then the cold cream would remove every trace of it. This was ONLY done for the commercial, to show you the effectiveness of the cream, live on a commercial. There was no radioactive materials included in the cream for everyday use by housewives at home or at the Dorothy Gray salons. It was just for the commercial to show how the cleansing cream worked.
Categories: Cosmetic History, American Perfume Houses
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That model could still be alive, too (one would hope!), so it's not even that long ago, really...
I remember hearing about clocks whose hands were painted with radioactive paint to make them glow in the dark, but I never knew that people were doing this sort of thing to each other; even for a one-off commercial?!
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