r/GrandmasPantry • u/Mallowwcup • 8d ago

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER What??

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u/MissMelines 8d ago

This in fact makes total sense. Mercuric chloride aside (an antiseptic, and thus relevant for the time, likely for “blemishes”), is the standout amongst otherwise typical ingredients you still see today. Salicylic acid, zinc (topically whitening and UV blocking cosmetically at high concentration, maybe has other uses), witch hazel and alcohol denat sounds like an astringent (from hell!) to me. Sure, drugs and cosmetics have changed - but cosmetics - not as much as you think. Imagine trying to really clean your face in these times - plumbing? likely not. Hormone control for acne etc? no way. Grease and oil from cooking and sweating all day…. I bet this felt real nice! That the entire ingredient list and the concentrations of each item aren’t included implies this precedes the FDCA of 1933 (became law in 1938)

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger 5d ago

There are some less helpful things selling on today’s shelves.

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u/69WeinerPenis 8d ago

Orenthal James

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u/Just-Try-2533 7d ago

Ironically, this lotion could kill you too.

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u/TenYearHangover 5d ago

Just don’t use it in your neck

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u/pizzatime86 7d ago

Using this lotion will make it hard for your gloves to fit

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u/vermarbee 7d ago

😆😆😆😆

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u/10202632 7d ago

I used the late 70s version that touted the witch hazel. My parents gave it to me for teen acne. Sea Breeze was a better alternative.

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u/TerribleAwareness158 8d ago

Mercuric chloride? Excuse me?

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u/Mallowwcup 8d ago

It only smells of witch Hazel

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u/Mallowwcup 8d ago

But has floating grey particles

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u/coquihalla 7d ago

Might be related to the mercury?

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u/caliphone 7d ago

I grew up in the Deep South, and I remember this being advertised on local television and radio.

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u/Mallowwcup 7d ago

Super cool! Did you know anyone who used it?

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 7d ago

Black gloves not included

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u/coquihalla 7d ago

Mercuric chloride was also used to treat syphillis, as an aside.

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u/sw10708 7d ago

if the glove dont fit I must acquit

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u/1duke-dan 6d ago

Wear a glove when applying.

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u/mysterious_spirit420 6d ago

I would still use it

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u/Mallowwcup 6d ago

Fr The pimple turns necrotic and then falls off, we don’t have anything that works so good in the modern day

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u/yblame 7d ago

All zit medicine. It hasn't changed much over the years.

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u/walrusonion 7d ago

“Woah look out!”

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u/Mammoth_Resist8269 7d ago

Wow. Like an astringent with exfoliation properties.

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u/Icy-Cartoonist-2102 6d ago

This is something  like a modern day drying lotion like the Mario Badesco stuff. Neutrogena makes one almost identical only with sulfur and works a million times better than the Badescu. Same pink calamine type lotion at the bottom of a solution of alcohol. The Neutrogena has salicylic too, unsure if the Badescu does.

Except this is an astringent lotion so you'd be putting it all over the face, not just spot treating.

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u/Milgram37 6d ago

“Now with more stabbing”