I remember the smell of this -- it may have been hard on the skin, but when you washed something in Fels Naptha, it smelled clean! Ad from the Ladies Home Journal, September 1922.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Vintage Advertising - Fels Naptha Soap
I remember the smell of this -- it may have been hard on the skin, but when you washed something in Fels Naptha, it smelled clean! Ad from the Ladies Home Journal, September 1922.
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Still is great to prevent Poison Ivy oils from annoying one's skin.
Almost bought a bar at Walmart the other day. It does get things clean!
Another thing I haven't seen in decades. Up here, the only bar soap available is Sunlight which isn't as good. All the ladies I knew growing up used Fels Naptha, bar soap and powder. Nothing like soap for getting clothes clean. I may just have to go shopping south of the border one day soon. Wonder what Canada Customs would say when they see soap and Bon Ami and the like instead of the usual?
My mother died in 2011 and I am still going through the stuff she packed to take to the retirement center. I just found six bars of this stuff, still in the original - albeit grubby - wrappers.
Every night, I write "I will not be a packrat" fifty times in my diary.
When my mother died, I inherited most of her sewing room (my sisters don't sew, the only sister-in-law who does, lives in Seattle). If nothing else, it serves as a cautionary tale to the spousal unit -- "See? I could be worse!"
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