Soap Stars: a Gallery of Vintage Soap Ads in a Time of Frantic Sanitising
What starts with soaps, ends with soaps, and in between had us all busy scrubbing in the name of hygiene and beauty?
Consumerism, of course.
In a time when retail looks like enjoying its biggest boom in ages – shifting truckloads of wet wipes, hand sanitiser and toilet paper – Cream goes back to its capital roots and pays tribute to the humble soap ad.
Enjoy our gallery. And then get back to that stockpiling…
Ads compiled by Antonino Tati through Pinterest, Instagram and Etsy.
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- Dove ‘Pink’ Soap
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- Lux Soap
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- Dove Soap
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- Fairy Soap
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- David S. Brown’s Soap
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- Lava Soap
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- Ivory Soap
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- Pears Soap
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- Fairy Soap (racist much?)
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- Lux Soap
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- Lifebuoy Soap
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- Tone Soap
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- Palmolive Soap
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- Palmolive Soap
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- Pears ‘English School’ Soap
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- Pears Soap
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- Lux ‘Toilet’ Soap (starring Joan Crawford)
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- Soap Magazine Feature
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- Strong Soaps Did This, Not Jonny
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- Ivory Soap
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- Pears Soap
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- Packer’s Tar Soap
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- Now for that Lifebuoy feeling!
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- Le Savon Dirtoff Soap
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- Le Savon Dirtoff Soap (ft. Michael Jackson)
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- This one’s so messed up, we’re not sure where to begin…
CREAM MAGAZINE 
One Response to “Soap Stars: a Gallery of Vintage Soap Ads in a Time of Frantic Sanitising”
Great poost thanks
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