Sunday, October 23, 2011

Without a doubt, one of the scariest beauty products EVER.

Laradium Cream! Yikes! Radioactive face! Glow in the dark, no doubt! This is from 
"Motion Picture" Magazine, 1922. That was a time when America was enamored of the 
potential of radioactivity to cure...well, everything!


and a close-up of that beautiful, GLOWING face~


That issue of Motion Picture Magazine is the only place I found that ad, so either it did not sell or people's faces were falling off. Or, another possibility is that it contained so little of the "active" ingredient, radium, that it did not work. The ONLY other ad that I found for radioactive
 cream is this one:





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