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Vaseline Shampoo
Woman's Realm / 18th March 1967
And there was me thinking that Vaseline had only started making other products recently! I rather like this ad, as it’s not often women in Sixties ads are displayed in positions of power: even if she IS sewing up his trousers. I suspect there was an alternative shot of her winking to camera…
Tags: beauty, household, social history, Vaseline
5 Comments
Martin Fenton on 23 July 2010 @ 1am
On the subject of other products, Vaseline Hair Tonic was responsible for that patent-leather hair shine as seen on all good Hollywood stars of the 1920s. It sounds as though the product was simply a thinner version of the normal petroleum jelly: Anita Garvin once spoke of the tonic in her hair starting to smoke when she stood too close (ie within 20 feet) of an arc lamp at Hal Roach studios circa 1927.
Tanya Jones on 23 July 2010 @ 7am
Blimey. Woe betide any man who tried to run his fingers through HER hair…
Anonymous on 16 January 2011 @ 6pm
She can handle anything but her dog apparently. Such blatant lies printed on the photographic evidence!
Jam Shambles on 16 June 2010 @ 11pm
Mustn’t make a prick in the arse joke! MUST… RESIST!