Hygiene
Follies of the Madmen #397
I detect the influence of A Charlie Brown Christmas on this unlikely morality play.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 24, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Excrement, Dogs, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #395
Shaving is just like Gulliver serving as a golf course for Lilliputians.
Full ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 15, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Surrealism, 1930s
Manpons
Strange ads created by the charity WaterAid in 2015 asking people to imagine what the world would be like if men had periods and had to use 'manpons'. This then served as a lead-in to the info that 1.25 billion women worldwide don't have access to a toilet during their period.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 21, 2018 -
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Category: Hygiene, Body Fluids, Advertising
Glow Bowl Fresh
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 17, 2018 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Excrement, Chindogu
Follies of the Madmen #380
Original ad from Radio Mirror for September 1937.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 24, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1930s
No-Wash Underwear
Organic Basics boasts that its Silvertech 2.0 line of underwear has been treated with anti-microbial silver chloride, and therefore never needs to be washed. Or, at least, only needs to be washed every few weeks.Maybe that pitch works for some people, but it doesn't work for me. I don't want to be rewearing a pair of sweaty, old underwear, even if it has been anti-microbially treated.
Product page (Kickstarter)
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 22, 2018 -
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Category: Hygiene, Underwear
Follies of the Madmen #367
Godzilla-sized soap bar terrorizes city.
Original ad here (page 258).
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 04, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, 1910s
Kotex Kotique
"Kotique?"
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 19, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, 1970s, Women
Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth
Full text here.
Thanks to Richard Bleiler.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 13, 2018 -
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Category: Hygiene, Poetry, Nineteenth Century, Diseases, Teeth
Follies of the Madmen #358
These people look abnormally happy, considering that they have such mutual bad breath and are in close proximity.
Original ad, alas, now locked away behind the CHICAGO TRIBUNE paywall.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 05, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s
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