Laundry Soap Ads

These are just a small portion of the ads that we have for sale. None of these are reproductions, all are original. Most of these are large ads, larger than our scanner bed. Therefore the view shown on the page may not completely show the ad. They are placed in a plastic bag with a cardboard backboard for protection. Please e-mail us with your specific interests.


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Cheer
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad has a very cute drawing of an active little boy with a slingshot in his back pocket pulling off his dirty play clothes while he listens to his mother and grandmother argue in the kitchen about whether the boy should be punished for "being a boy". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
May 4, 1953
Life magazine
1
$5.00
View Laundry Soap 6

Chipso
Full color 7 1/4" x 11" ad for their soap that gives more suds so that colors will not be lost on the washboard. The ad has a picture of a proper mother sitting in her living room with her four kids and their set of blocks. The ad calls this an "Unretouched, direct color photograph, taken in the home of Mrs. R. L. Pine, Dayton, Ohio" and there are labels telling how old these clothes are and how often they have been washed. There is a smaller picture of Bertha (the children call her "Birdie") looking into the camera as she immerses her hands into a wash tub filled with suds.
July 1934
Better Homes & Gardens
1
$5.00
View Laundry Soap 15

Ivory Snow
Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for their granulated for efficiency laundry detergent. The ad has a picture of the typical mother holding her baby against a pink background under the headline "Wonderful Ivory Snow". The ad calls it the "Safest possible soap for baby's things...and yours, too...for all the nice things you wash by hand or machine!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
October 1955
Ladies Home Journal
0
$4.00
View Laundry Soap 12

Lux
Full color 7 3/4" x 10 3/4" ad for their laundry detergent. The ad has a colorful drawing of a lady showing off her freshly cleaned, carefully folded laundry. The ad headline informs you that "The clothes in your wash every week are worth more than $100. Give them the same protection you give fine fabrics - for only 4 cents a week". There is another statement made claiming there is "Enough in the big new package for two average washings".
April 1926
Good Housekeeping
1
$4.50
View Laundry Soap 7

Lux
Black and white 5" x 11 1/2" ad for this amazing laundry detergent that will take care of Perspiration odor in underthings. The ad has a series of three pictures that start with an unhappy lady sitting alone in a chair in her new home under the headline "Snubbed at First...Happy Club Member Now". The second picture shows her in the grocery store listening to several ladies talking about perspiration odor in underthings and she decides to buy the best detergent for taking care of that problem, just in case the smell from her underthings are what's keeping the neighborhood ladies from inviting her to bridge games. The last picture shows this same lady, now using Lux, playing bridge with the ladies who have now become her friend.
March 1934
Better Homes & Gardens
1
$4.50
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Lux
Black and white 4 3/4" x 11 1/4" ad for their Laundry Soap that can be used for Underthings. The ad has a series of pictures, the first one shows two ladies sitting in the Living Room reading newspapers when one looks up and says to the other "Imagine, Sally's actually engaged - and to the Boss's son!". The rest of the pictures tell the story of Sally unhappy because Mr. Bill Gordon didn't follow up his interest in her, how the newspaper mentioned Undie odor fatal to romance which got her to thinking about her situation and Lux and shortly after Mr. Bill Gordon asked her out and now they are engaged, thanks to Lux.
July 1934
Better Homes & Gardens
1
$4.50
View Soap Laundry 14

Oxydol
Black and white 9 1/2" x 8" ad for their No-Scrub, No-Soil Laundry Soap. The ad has a cartoon strip entitled Timid Tina Takes a Chance and learns about the latest Airplanes and the Latest Laundry Soap. This ad is wider than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
February 1936
Rural Progress Magazine
1
$4.50
View Laundry Soap 8

Rinso
Full color 10" x 13" ad with a drawing of a long line of celebrating people with two drummers at the front of the line. The ad headline proclaims that "It's Here! New Rinso with Solium - the marvelous 'Sunlight' ingredient". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
December 1947
McCall's
1
$4.00
View Laundry Soap 2

Rinso
Black and white 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad has a photo of a mother leaning into the stroller where her young twins are having different reactions to being out today. This ad has a headline warning you that "When it's got to be really white - use Rinso with Solium." This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
March 30, 1953
Life magazine
1
$4.50
View Laundry Soap 5

Sta-Flo & Sta-Puf Full color 10" x 13" ad for a contest with $105,000 in prizes. The ad has a photo of a baby's face and the object of the contest is to decide "What's the Baby saying".
June 16, 1961
Life magazine
1
$4.00
View Laundry Soap 1
Swan
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for the fact that "Swan is 4 Swell Soaps in One". The ad headline says that "Swan's Cut Out for 4 Big Jobs" and the ad contains little cutouts that mothers and little girls could clip out and use to make different pictures. The ad claims that Swan soap can be used to wash the baby, wash the dishes, wash your clothes and bathe the family. The ad contains several wartime hints to save soap by cutting down on usage. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
February 28, 1944
Life magazine
1
$4.50
View Swan 11

Swan
Full color 10" x 13" ad with several drawings containing babies and ducks. The ad headline says "You'll have a Circus with Swan. The stupendous gigantic colossal soap that does 4 amazing jobs at Once".
July 1944
McCall's
1
$4.50
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Swan
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for the Soap that is Baby-Mild for Everything. The ad has pictures of six different babies, all different types, and asks "Which Swan baby would you adopt?". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
July 2, 1945
Life magazine
1
$4.00
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Swan
Full color 7 3/4" x 10 3/4" ad with six drawings describing how "Swan is 4 swell soaps in One" and how it can be used.
February 1946
Farm Journal
1
$4.00
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Tide
Black and white 9 1/4" x 12" ad for their Laundry Soap. The ad has a picture of Gunther and Lucille, from the TV show Car 54, Where Are You, doing their grocery shopping. Lucille is telling Gunther how good Tide is and that she can get a Free Pond's High Lustre Lipstick with Tide boxtops. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
April 20, 1962
Life magazine
0
$4.50
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