Fairy Soap advertisement: Avoid Dyed Soaps! – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Fairy Soap advertisement: Avoid Dyed Soaps!, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Fairy Soap advertisement: Avoid Dyed Soaps!
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The headline's warning against "Dyed Soaps" sets this advertisement apart from the many soap ads of its era. Fairy Soap was sold as a plain white bar, and the ad turns that undyed look into a promise of purity, suggesting that colored soaps were harsher or less trustworthy. Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manufacturers often used health and cleanliness claims to sell household goods, at a time when germ theory was spreading and washing was becoming a visible sign of respectability. Look closely at how the copy plays on consumer fears about what went into everyday products.
| Original scan | 640 × 895 px |
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| Reference | 547 |
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