More scary old ads about Lysol: Nazi babes, spider-crotch

Xeni Jardin 9:59 am Thu May 17, 2007

Normally I'd just slap these on as footnotes to yesterday's post about creepy ads promoting the irrigation of ladyparts with common household cleaning chemicals.

But two of the many Lysol/feminine hygiene ads in the "Her Secret Past: So Dainty and Fresh" flickr pool merit special attention.

Above: Douche with Lysol, and prevent the dreaded Spider-crotch syndrome.

And at left, from 1936: in the year when Hitler hosted the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin to demonstrate Aryan superiority over all lesser races, this ad promoted Lysol as a glamour secret of "die eleganten damen" of the Third Reich.

(Thanks, Paula K. Wirth)

Previously on BoingBoing:

Feminine hygiene ad, 1926, advocates douching with Lysol

Reader comment: Moria Legge-Conyers adds,

The Museum of Menstruation has a great collection of ads of that same genre/suggestion: Link
the rest of their site is great, as well. Well worth checking out.

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