Crazy Foam - the Toy that Cleans - Clown
date: label: date made
content: 1965
name: label: maker
content: Aerosol Corporation of America
notes: label: Description
content: In 1965, the Aerosol Corporation of America, a division of Shulton, Inc. since 1961, launched the “Crazy Foam” line of aerosol children’s bath soaps. The soap was dispensed in shaving cream style aerosol cans with specially designed plastic caps depicting cartoon-like heads of animals and other figures. With a push of the button soap would foam out of the beak of a duck or a parrot, or from the mouth of a clown or skeleton, or many other “crazy” creatures. The mid-1960s designs were replaced in the 1970s with a line of licensed comic book characters and many other iterations followed. The museum’s collection includes 14 of the original 1960s designs as well as engineering drawings for many of the Crazy Foam heads.
label: Description
content: As promised on the can, “Crazy Foam is Crazy! It’s a wonderful foamy soap that bounces, molds, decorates, floats . . . and “Cleans like Crazy” while you play!”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Wellesley, Wellesley Hills
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Cyanamid Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0024.14
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0024.14
label: accession number
content: 1993.0024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: soap, novelty
label: Other Terms
content: Soap, Aerosol Can of; Personal Hygiene; Novelity; Liquid, Aerosol
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: soap (product material)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.9375 cm