Nestle Mother's Darling Shampoo
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Nestle-LeMur Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Nestle-Lemur Company, a cosmetics manufacturer, was started in 1928 in New York City when the Nestle and LeMur companies merged. The Nestle line referred to Charles Nestle (born Karl Nessler), inventor of the permanent wave machine, who opened a chain of hair salons in the early 1920s. The company made a variety of hair care products including permanent waves, color-rinses, and in 1944 they advertised Nestle’s Baby Hair Treatment in the newspaper shopper’s column, "Buy-Lines" by Nancy Sasser. The company also had lines of cosmetic products, pharmaceuticals, and household preparations.
label: Description
content: Mother’s Darling Shampoo was produced in the mid 1950s. The soap-free shampoo was specially formulated not to irritate babies’ eyes or skin and for use in both hard and soft water. Johnson and Johnson launched their first baby shampoo at about the same time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
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: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Babies
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content: Hair Care Products
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.195
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.195
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shampoo, baby
label: Object Name
content: hair care product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 6.985 cm x 2.8575 cm