Object Details
- Description
- White cardboard box, with silver, blue and red print. Photograph of "Munyon," seated, on back of box with the text below: "I believe that I am offering to the public the most curative and also the purest and best toilet soap ever made." The bar of soap is wrapped in paper with print of branches and leaves and an illustration of a "witch" presenting witch hazel branches to a man. Net weight 2 7/8 oz. Folded paper insert included in box.
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Prepared for chapped hands and lips, pimples, eruptions, prickly heat, blackheads, chafing and baby rash, and for removing disagreeable body odors.
- Valuable as a shampoo. Especially prepared for tender skin.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1908-1918
- ID Number
- MG.M-11465.07
- catalog number
- M-11465.07
- accession number
- 260557
- Object Name
- personal hygiene product
- Other Terms
- Soap, Homeopathic; Cosmetics; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Physical Description
- witch hazel (product active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.1275 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Bathing
- Beauty and Health
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Babies
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Skin
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Soap
- Record ID
- nmah_716300
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-4f74-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
