Soap Stars: a Gallery of Vintage Soap Ads in a Time of Frantic Sanitising
The other day I went out shopping for office supplies and came back with a stapler, A4 paper, squishie toy shaped like a hotdog, Post-Its and lots of small bottles of hand sanitiser.
It seems that while we are well over the Covid scare, some of us, like me, are still in the habit of repetitively washing our hands and frantically rubbing sanitiser over them: at Woolworths, at Bunnings, even the nail spa (oh-oh).
In light of this OCD-type addiction to hygiene, Cream goes back to its capitalist roots and pays tribute to the humble soap advertisement.
Enjoy our gallery. Then you can get back to that stockpiling…
Compiled by Antonino Tati via Instagram, Pinterest 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, yikes!)
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- ↑ This one’s so messed up, we’re not sure where to begin…
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One Response to “Soap Stars: a Gallery of Vintage Soap Ads in a Time of Frantic Sanitising”
Great poost thanks
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