100 years ago today - Danderine
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
January 30, 2021 9:55am CST
This was taken from The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, January 30, 1921 Found On chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Girls! Save your Hair! Make it Abundant!
Found this advertisement to be amusing. I guess Danderine is the yesterday of Head & Shoulders shampoo and conditioners.
Ladies of 1921 could purchase this bottle for 35 cents. Today that would be $4.63
Would you have picked up a bottle of this "Beauty - Tonic" ?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
30 Jan 21
Right? I feel like most people would have made their own shampoos or bought cheaper. I know I would have.
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@porwest (112906)
• United States
30 Jan 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Probably, back in the day, the market for this was tiny. But someone must have bought it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
@porwest I imagine. The image even looks hoity toity.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
I rarely buy a bottle of shampoo over $3.00 today!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
Surely there were things that the housewives used to clean their hair and the hair of their children. Recipes that they learned from their mother and their grandmother.
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@noni1959 (13058)
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5 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum My grandma would tell me they used a lot of rosewater and lye soaps. She still used rosewater when I was a child. I love the smell and it takes me back whenever I smell it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Feb 21
@noni1959 My grandmother mentioned the wash tub in the kitchen, but I don't remember her mentioning the soap. I am sure it was lye soap though.
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