Breck Beautiful Hair Cream Treatment with Lipicil and Lanolin for Dry or Damaged Hair
date: label: date made
content: ca 1954-1959
name: label: maker
content: John H. Breck, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: John H. Breck established his hair care business in Springfield, Mass., around 1910. He is credited with introducing the first pH-balanced liquid shampoo in 1930. The famous "Breck Girl" portraits, used in company advertising for forty years, were originally created by Springfield artist Charles Sheldon. Later Breck Girls included future celebrities such as Kim Basinger, Cybil Shepard, Jacquelyn Smith, and Christie Brinkley. Today (2012) the Breck product line is owned by Dollar Tree of Chesapeake, Va.
label: Description
content: Lipicil and lanolin (wool grease) were key ingredients in Breck Cream Treatment which was sold from the late 1940s through the end of the 1950s. "Lipicil" was trademarked by the Breck company in 1954. Advertisments claimed that these ingredients would "aid in the treatment and prevention of hair dryness, dandruff, and hard-to-manage hair."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Springfield
topic: label: web subject
content: Hair Care Products
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Care and Enhancement
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content: Hair Care Products
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Dial Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0251.06
label: accession number
content: 1998.0251
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0251.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: conditioner
label: Object Name
content: hair care product
label: Other Terms
content: Hair Care Products; Cosmetics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: lipicil (product active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: lanolin (product active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm