Munyon's Witch-Hazel Skin and Toilet Soap
date: label: date made
content: 1908-1918
notes: label: Description
content: White cardboard box, with silver, blue and red print. Photograph of "Munyon," seated, on back of box with the text below: "I believe that I am offering to the public the most curative and also the purest and best toilet soap ever made." The bar of soap is wrapped in paper with print of branches and leaves and an illustration of a "witch" presenting witch hazel branches to a man. Net weight 2 7/8 oz. Folded paper insert included in box.
label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: Prepared for chapped hands and lips, pimples, eruptions, prickly heat, blackheads, chafing and baby rash, and for removing disagreeable body odors.
label: Description
content: Valuable as a shampoo. Especially prepared for tender skin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Soap
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Bathing
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Babies
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Skin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11465.07
label: catalog number
content: M-11465.07
label: accession number
content: 260557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
label: Other Terms
content: Soap, Homeopathic; Cosmetics; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: witch hazel (product active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.1275 cm