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Battle radioactive dirt with Dorothy Gray Salon Cold Cream

This 1955 commercial for Dorothy Gray Salon Cold Cream features a pleasant model going about her day normally. She shops and checks on her makeup. Then radioactive dirt is put on her face… It’s all very scientific, you see. The makeup scientists (and who wouldn’t trust and a makeup scientist with radioactive dirt?) uses a geiger [...]
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Old cold-cream ad touts beautifying benefits of radioactivity

Odd : Boing Boing (2 months ago)

In an ad for cold cream facial cleanser they use 'slightly' radioactive dirt on a young woman's face to test which cleanser works the best. Complete with geiger counter clicks. Gotta love the innocence of the 50s. Read Post

Video: 1950s Face Cream Ad Smears Radioactive Dirt On Model’s Face To Demonstrate Its Efficacy

Lifestyle / Beauty : The Gloss: Beauty (last year)

Something tells me Don Draper was not looped in on this one. More » Post from: TheGloss Read Post

Need to Remove Radioactive Dirt From Your Face? Try Dorothy Gray Cold Cream

Lifestyle / Beauty : The Girls in the Beauty Department (last year)

Here at Glamour HQ, we're all for a bit of beauty nostalgia, but sometimes, product commercials from the past can be a little bit, um, scary. Check out this Dorothy Gray Cosmetics commercial from the 1950s that will "remove anything... Read Post


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