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cactuswren.livejournal.comGood Housekeeping, November 1933:
Rinso was a soap powder, very popular before the introduction of Tide, the first wide-selling laundry detergent. And yes, as late as the 1930s a lot of laundry was done at home with boilers and scrubbing boards.
"Not as dainty" is a 1930s euphemism for "Gad, sweetheart, you reek." The "hygienic, quickly-vanishing scent" made Lifebuoy popular based on the notion that anything that stank so powerfully of carbolic acid must be therapeutic in some way or other.
Rinso was a soap powder, very popular before the introduction of Tide, the first wide-selling laundry detergent. And yes, as late as the 1930s a lot of laundry was done at home with boilers and scrubbing boards.
"Not as dainty" is a 1930s euphemism for "Gad, sweetheart, you reek." The "hygienic, quickly-vanishing scent" made Lifebuoy popular based on the notion that anything that stank so powerfully of carbolic acid must be therapeutic in some way or other.
