Pears' Soap advertisement: complexions as new milk and ripe cherries – Antique Print
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Pears' Soap advertisement: complexions as new milk and ripe cherries comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Pears' Soap advertisement: complexions as new milk and ripe cherries
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A clear complexion "like new milk and ripe cherries" is a striking image, and this advertisement uses it to promise a result rather than describe the soap itself. Pears' was among the most heavily advertised soaps of the late nineteenth century, and its copy often drew on the language of purity and health to turn a plain necessity into a desirable household item. What stands out here is how the text sells the glow of a healthy face, a shift typical of the beauty advertising that filled magazines and hoardings in Britain and America in those decades.
| Original scan | 620 × 923 px |
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| Reference | 840 |
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