See Midol, a competitor of Kurb.
See the first
Kotex ad (scroll down the page a bit).
See also Australian douche ad
(ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid
ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan
(1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash
ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad,
1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain
pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol
booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad,
1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray
ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad,
1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche liquid ad,
1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal
Douching (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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Kurb pain reliever from
Kotex menstrual products
"Monthly pain now relieved
fast by Heat-Vitamin"
Newspaper ads 1936-1961, U.S.A.
I thank the industrious retired
teacher and genealogist for sending
these scans and many others!
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Below:
from the Appleton [Wisconsin] Post
Crescent, April 4, 1940. Note that the
ad had to explain what Tampax was even
though it had been for sale for years. This
was a big problem for all tampons in
their first decade and beyond.
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Below:
from the Syracuse [New York] Herald
Journal, April 17, 1941.
See sanitary
belts here, Fibs tampons, a Kotex ad from 1942 and Quest "positive" powder
for pads.
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Below:
from the Post Standard, Syracuse, New
York, May 11, 1961. Niacin, vitamin
B3, famously makes the user's face
flush and feel hot in large-enough
doses, a problem when trying to lower
cholesterol with it since many people
feel uncomfortable. I guess the
company promoted this since it was
like the heat-producing salves for
arthritis, etc.
"Now doctors are astonished that, in
4 out of 5 cases, monthly pain
subsides . . . ." Gee, you mean for
decades Kurb didn't work very well?
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